Digital Age Fanatics Meet Bronze Age Fanatics
I have to laugh. The video, “The Innocence of Muslims,” that was wrongly blamed for the death of our Ambassador to Libya is now the reason for massive protests outside of Google HQ in London. Said one...
View ArticleA McGovern Mood Requires the Creativity of Reagan
George Will says the nation is in the mood for a McGovern moment, and that this explains why in the last debate Mitt Romney kept veering back to domestic policy (“I love teachers!”) and Obama resorted...
View ArticleThe Censor’s New Tools
Besides just gadget reviews there are generally two types of writing about technology and their companies. 1) The type that treat technology companies primarily as businesses that are saving the...
View ArticleObliterating the Woman
Since it is such a hot topic this week, I wanted to collect together some thoughts on the difficulties anti-abortion advocates run into when dealing with the case of rape that results in pregnancy. I...
View ArticleThe Anti-Abortion Vote and Federalism
Jeremy Beer’s sarcastic endorsement of Romney is hilarious and bracing and contains a lot of truth about the likelihood of a Romney presidency resulting in the overturning of Roe. Let’s grant him the...
View ArticleUnless Something Is Wrong With the Polls…
It looks like Obama is going to get his second term. Of course there is a chance that Obama could somehow lose Wisconsin and Pennsylvania even as he wins Ohio. Or there is a chance that somehow the...
View ArticleHow to Explain Romney’s Loss to Shocked Conservatives
If Romney loses tonight, there are going to be a lot of shocked Republicans and conservatives. If you’re a reader of the Greek New Testament (and who isn’t?) the appropriate word is “skandalon.” Such a...
View ArticleThe Encouraging Sign For Romney
I may have pre-written the post-mortem on the Romney campaign, but I thought I’d point to the one sign that he is going to be okay. So far, Romney is performing well in Prince William County and other...
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It’s Over; The Republican Party Hasn’t Recovered From Bush
Wikimedia Commons As I write, Barack Obama has been declared the winner of the 2012 election. He will compile an impressive victory in the Electoral College. By my projections at least a 313-213...
View ArticleA More Diverse GOP
As I said in my post election wrap-up, I don’t think the primary problem for the Republican Party is that it isn’t “reaching” enough voters. The problem is that voters are rejecting the party and its...
View ArticleThe Party of Big Business
National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru has one of the better election post-mortems out there, and I think it ties into some of the themes running through my piece earlier this week on how to understand...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Catholics Speak English?
It is an odd thing to go to the Bible section of the few remaining big box booksellers. You can get Bibles in metallic covers with notes directed at randy teenagers. You can get your dispensationalist...
View ArticleReevaluating Huntsman
So Jon Huntsman. How is that going? He joined No Labels, a group that has no constituency beyond a few elites who dislike partisanship and want “problem-solving” in Washington. I’m reasonably certain...
View ArticleHow Far Are People Willing to Go for Hagel?
Ever since the news came out that former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel may be Obama’s preferred choice to head the Department of Defense, I’ve had difficulty developing what we call a “strong take” on...
View ArticleThe Primary Challenge
Jonathan Martin at Politico reports on the thinking of some GOP party leaders in Washington. The problem as they see it: competitive primaries. The intra-party contests, or threat thereof, have become...
View ArticleThese Girls Are Sad For Now
“You have to watch this show; the first few episodes are the most reactionary critique of sexually liberated Brooklyn possible; it’s a dystopia.” Paraphrased, that’s what one wise friend told me last...
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Mind of the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan stood beside a window in Chicago’s Conrad Hilton hotel during the 1968 Democratic convention and looked over the panorama of dissent raging below. At about two in the morning, the...
View ArticleThe Censor’s New Tools
Besides just gadget reviews there are generally two types of writing about technology and their companies. 1) The type that treat technology companies primarily as businesses that are saving the...
View ArticleObliterating the Woman
Since it is such a hot topic this week, I wanted to collect together some thoughts on the difficulties anti-abortion advocates run into when dealing with the case of rape that results in pregnancy. I...
View ArticleThe Anti-Abortion Vote and Federalism
Jeremy Beer’s sarcastic endorsement of Romney is hilarious and bracing and contains a lot of truth about the likelihood of a Romney presidency resulting in the overturning of Roe. Let’s grant him the...
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