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This year’s CPAC was probably as notable for the people and groups who didn’t show up, as it is for those who did. Since Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and a number of Beltway groups and think tanks were absent, the conference wasn’t necessarily a weathervane for where the conservative movement—depending how one defines it—is heading. [...]
Filed under: culture, libertarians, politics
Reviewing The King’s Speech, Nick Greenslade writes: In the United States, [Churchill’s] wartime leadership was regularly cited as an inspiration and example by those leading “The War on Terror”. George Bush, we were informed after 9/11, kept a bust of him in the Oval Office. It’s almost as if the film-makers have ticked off all [...]
I am not a Sarah Palin apologist, but casting any blame on her or the Tea Party for the terrible events that happened Saturday in Arizona is foolish. Jared Lee Loughner is a troubled soul and he alone is responsible for the Tucson massacre. The insistence by left-leaning politicians and pundits that “heightened” political rhetoric [...]
Perhaps the silliest narrative to spring up during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was the fantasy that his presidency would bring forth the end of racial America. Pundits, mostly on the left, nearly wet themselves with glee entertaining this delusional idea. Obviously post-racial America has yet to emerge. The fiction of race retains a strong grasp [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — … but is not today’s FCC decision on “net neutrality” a good thing, notwithstanding teeth-gnashing from various members of the sycophantic “right”? From the Wall Street Journal: The new FCC rules, for example, would prevent a broadband provider, such as Comcast Corp., AT&T, Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc., from hobbling access [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — For numerous reasons with the details of which I shall not bore the intrepid reader who dares to work his way through this treasonously titled screed, I have been remiss in my obligations to PostRight, and thus am two weeks late in addressing this topic, about which I’ve continued to ruminate [...]
Imagine if every Thanksgiving, displays of Pilgrims were increasingly forbidden, retailers refrained from making references to the Mayflower or Plymouth Rock in their advertising, and schoolchildren were no longer allowed to draw turkeys by outlining their hands. After all, Thanksgiving offends some, particularly native Americans. Also, not everyone has reason to be thankful. Imagine if [...]
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