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I’d not normally dedicate a post to nothing more than directing readers elsewhere, without, say, commenting on or otherwise engaging a particular post, but I’d like to draw y’all’s attention to Humane Pursuits, a fairly new stop on the Right-wing Virtual Super Highway operated by friends of a few friends. The contributors are, I think, [...]
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Mint-and-Corn Country, Indiana — I’m not entirely sure why, but while I was driving my grandfather to an appointment today, I started to think of an essay that I first encountered long ago, and to which I occasionally return, written by Peter Kreeft (I’m a fan of Kreeft, so I’ll forgive his being at BC [...]
In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old Right non-interventionism, I’ve been somewhat uneasy with much of the movement’s rhetoric. Specifically, I often find much of the anti-war Right a little too reminiscent of the anti-war Left. That is, many anti-war conservatives and libertarians expend a [...]
(Cross-posted at The Other Right) It’s probably a bad idea to get into the habit of linking as heavily to the Times as I have been in the last few week, but, I was really quite impressed by this weekend’s profile of David Cameron… Go take a peek: Conservatives — or Tories, as they are also [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I’ve read part of it, and am printing it [PDF], with my painfully slow inkjet; eventually, I think I’ll have a thing or to two say. I recognize that this is not a Catholic (or even wholly Christian!) Weblog, but the Church’s long-standing tradition of social teaching offers a lot for [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Below, H.C. Johns excerpts a deliciously bad example of prefabricon rhetoric from Governor Palin’s resignation announcement. I watched part of the address on the day she gave it, but had not read (or heard) the speech in its entirety until this afternoon, when a friend passed the hyperlink to me, commenting, [...]
I was hoping to stay out of the Mark Levin discussion, but a particularly anti-intellectual and incendiary piece of online garbage has motivated me to make a few simple points. To start, I have listened to hours and hours of Mark Levin’s show. My father is, I’m sorry to say, an avid fan of his and [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I concede that, just maybe, I have become a little too obsessed with Mark Levin and his antics, the wickedness of that is Happy Meal conservatism, and the entire kerfuffle that led to the coining of the term “prefabricon”, to the point that I now occasionally peruse Levin’s Website, looking to [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — At the risk of perturbing the John Jameses of the world, I direct you to Conor’s lengthy, well written, and incredibly cogent Atlantic Ideas Special Report piece, “When Talk Radio Rants Go Wrong”, inspired by a heated interlocution amongst Conor, Mark Levin, and numerous commenters, with special guest David Frum. A [...]
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