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by JL Wall I, too, have been somewhat remiss in my bloggerly duties as of late — it seems that my weekly internet breaks have grown from Saturdays to include Sundays, Mondays, and occasionally Fridays and Tuesdays — unfortunately, all other productivity is usually shot on those days, also, so I’m getting nothing out of [...]
Filed under: conservatism, politics
I’ve got some further thoughts up at TAS.
Filed under: conservatism, health care, politics
“I think of politics as a circle, not a spectrum of just right and left. Patrick [Buchanan] and I are often pretty close. Patrick’s an honest person. He’s a straight guy and very smart guy. His magazine, the American Conservative, is really interesting. It’s all anti-Bush, basically. I’m pleased with that.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson [...]
Filed under: conservatism, media/culture, politics
So I’ve criticized the overeager use of the “S”-word before, and certainly shouldn’t have gone in for it so quickly last night. That said, I still don’t agree with Lee: … what many people–not just those naive youngsters–conclude is that the market does not, left to its own devices, magically solve our “complex economic problems.” [...]
Filed under: conservatism, libertarianism, politics
Conor has a definition: In construction, a prefabricated house is produced in a factory, shipped out to building sites, and assembled by folks unequipped to design anything better. The prefab conservative, or prefab-con, brings the same attitude to political discourse: rather than using reason and critical thinking to craft arguments that fit the real world, [...]
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And with prefab humor, too. P.S. “Schmuckler”, eh? I actually think that that may be a new one, though my memory of sixth grade is admittedly a bit foggy. UPDATE: More here.
Filed under: conservatism, media/culture, personal
Inspired by James’s coinage of “premod” to describe the Front Porch Republicans who are currently at war with his own merry troop of “pomo” cons, I hereby decree that “prefab”* will be the new term of choice for conservatism of the talk radio variety, as in: “I tried to listen to Mark Levin the other [...]
Filed under: conservatism
The point I was making was that, one could take the conservative notion of a free market to an extreme to where one argued there should be no government intervention at all. I also pointed out how foolish it would be, but said it would be hard to say the position wasn’t a “conservative” one [...]
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An incoherent governing philosophy and some extraordinarily bad rap, apparently. That, plus a perfect summation of the conservative movement’s stagger toward irrelevance: Dan and George Hawley have already said most of what needs to be said, but a few more thoughts: No, this is not a joke. At least, I don’t think it’s a joke, [...]
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I haven’t found the time to listen to the Riehl-Friedersdorf-Payne Skypecast on the future of conservatism, but if Dan Riehl really did say that the defining character of a conservative is favoring “an economy free of government interference”,* then Conor’s frustration is entirely appropriate. As even the most amateurish historian of the American conservative movement [...]
Filed under: conservatism, politics, war