Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Jack Hunter
On yesterday’s drive home I listened to Sean Hannity, as I often do. Hannity was upset, as he often is, about President Obama ”weakening” American defense – scrapping missile defense shields in Europe, not escalating troop levels fast enough in Afghanistan, ignoring an Iran on the verge of getting nukes – you know, not being “conservative.” “You’re a great American!” [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Jack Hunter
Though every talk radio blowhard is pretending to be for limited government now that a Democrat occupies the White House, I have maintained – not without criticism – that there remains a marked difference between Glenn Beck and most other national conservative hosts. For all his melodrama, Beck does two things which distinguish him from [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by Jack Hunter
I read this on the air this morning and thought it worth passing around. None of this will be earth shattering to most on the Alternative Right, but I thought of it on September 11, 2001 and still think of it every anniversary. This is Pat Buchanan describing a hypothetical terrorist attack that could take [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2009 by Jack Hunter
On ABC’s “This Week” this morning, George Will’s retort to Robert Gates, Fred Kagan and everyone else criticizing his call for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, was to note support for his position from former Marine Commandant Gen. Chuck Krulak and other military brass. From the Politico: George Will, whose columnn last week calling for the U.S. to pull [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Jack Hunter
Working in talk radio, I am accustomed to everyone sucking (yes, that’s the sort of crude language we use, in addition to rampant misspelling and bad grammar). Though I generally agree with John Derbyshire’s great TAC cover story “How Talk Radio Wrecks the Right” in February on the need for a more high-brow conservatism, talk [...]
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