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This week, when whistleblower website Wikileaks released over 90,000 classified documents portraying a dismal war in Afghanistan, the White House called editor Julian Assange and his organization a threat to national security. But it is this White House that is a threat to national security. Wikileaks simply helped prove it. The war in Afghanistan is [...]
On a recent episode of the popular game show “Family Feud,” the contestants were asked to name something most commonly associated with San Francisco. Like Mormons to Utah or Dukes to Hazzard, everyone and their brother knows San Fran is a haven for homosexuals, but after saying “trolleys,” the “Golden Gate Bridge” and “Rice-a-Roni,” the [...]
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When Kentucky US Senate candidate Rand Paul said that if elected he would seek to join forces with Tea Party-minded senators like Jim DeMint (SC), and possibly current senate candidates like Mike Lee of Utah and Sharron Angle of Nevada, former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-MS) told the Washington Post, “We don’t need a [...]
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‘ I’m often asked, “Jack, why do you talk about foreign policy so much?” That’s simple—because foreign policy is unquestionably the most significant divide on the American Right. In fact, until mainstream conservatives rethink this issue, any desire for smaller government will continue to be in vain. Recent political history highlights this constant obstacle. In [...]
The NAACP accusing anyone of “racism” is like Mel Gibson accusing his wife of being abusive—at this point, the first impulse is to cast a critical eye on the accuser. When the nation’s oldest civil rights organization passed a resolution recently condemning the Tea Party for supposedly harboring racists, they likely changed few people’s opinions [...]
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During the Bush presidency, William Kristol’s Weekly Standard closely mirrored the administration’s agenda, not only in the magazine’s unwavering enthusiasm for war with Iraq, but in trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, assertions that should now be considered at least as wild as those who believe 9-11 was an “inside [...]
To neoconservatives, the thought of a Republican questioning American foreign policy is like a man questioning a woman about her weight—they’re just not supposed to do it. When last week, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dared to question President Obama’s wisdom in continuing to fight a land war in Afghanistan, Weekly Standard editor William [...]
In Sunday’s New York Times, Senator Lindsey Graham made clear his opinion of the Tea Partiers, saying their movement was “unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country.” Graham actually makes a very good point. One of the defining features of American conservatism is not simply a dislike [...]
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