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INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN'T DEAD: MAINTAINING A CONSISTENT PHILOSOPHY
You might want to check out a website dedicated to intellectual conservatism. www.lastingliberty.com. Given your interest, you might like it.
Comment Posted By John On 16.10.2009 @ 22:27
MORE ON THE US ACCEPTING AN IRANIAN BOMB
Debate is unnecessary. Debating a subject any subject means you intend to to do or not do something about that subject. Mr. Obama has proven his lack of morals, ethics and intestitudenal stamina that debate or discussion is unneccessary. He will do nothing, he will pay the I see nothing, I say nothing, and I do nothing because that would require me to make a decision. He hasn't done that in a year why should he start now.
Comment Posted By John On 8.10.2009 @ 14:03
WHERE ARE ALL THE 'GOOD GOVERNMENT' LIBERALS?
Contradiction in terms, good government liberal has no place in the American political discussions. Liberal politicians and there Hollywood elite friends have the same sense of superiority that make their opinion correct no matter what the peons think. The peons must be made to understand what they tell you is for your own good.
Comment Posted By John On 8.10.2009 @ 14:08
GET READY FOR 'HOUSING MELTDOWN: THE SEQUEL'
"By the way, did it really cost $75 billion to bail out 235,000 consumers? I’ve got no head for math but that seems to be a huge amount of money to help such a relative few - especially since by my very rough calculations it works out to about $32,000 per consumer bailout."
I get almost $320,000 per customer
Comment Posted By John On 24.09.2009 @ 11:08
DOES THE WORLD LOVE US ANY MORE WITH OBAMA AS PRESIDENT?
Four-and-a-half years of having the media (news and entertainment) tell you how great you are can produce a bit of a distorted picture of your wonderfulness. Obama seemed to come into the job thinking the only people who didn't like him were conservative Republicans and nobody in the world likes conservative Republicans, so his job should be a cinch.
Unfortunately for Barack, he's got a huge ego matched to a timid nature that balks at doing anything controversial unless he's got all his special interest groups lined up behind him. And since all those groups are on the left side of the political spectrum, none of them want the U.S. to show any sort of toughness on the world's stage, because they think if we do that, the world will continue to love us. But for the unelected or the illegally elected leaders, all that does is show the President of the United States is a wimp who can be rolled.
Like Carter with the Soviets invading Afghanistan over the 1979 Christmas holiday, Obama's going to have to have something awful happen -- and probably happen during the 2012 election cycle -- to get him to change his ways, or risk re-election. Though I suppose on the positive side, Obama at least didn't flagellate his country at the U.N. to the point he promised the other leaders that, once they left New York, he'd do to it what Henry Fonda did at the end of "Fail Safe".
Comment Posted By John On 23.09.2009 @ 15:17
RUSH AND RACE: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
If you go back 16 years and listen to Limbaugh tapes from the first year of the Clinton era, the ideology is the same, but the touch is much lighter -- more updates, song parodies, etc. Which is why be became so successful. There were conservative radio talkers in the business dating all the way back to the 1960s, but they were mostly local and had too hard an edge to really break out at a national level.
The Rush Limbaugh of 2009 channels is inner Mark Levin too much (while Levin cops his schtick off Bob Grant's personna for years at WMCA and WABC in New York). In a mature market like conservative talk radio is now, as compared to the early 1990s, the angrier attitude works with the listeners you've got, and the actions taken by Obama over the past nine months have helped Rush regain some of the listeners he lost during the Bush years. But it also makes it easier for liberals to use his words against him than it was back in the early Clinton years, when the more satyrical pokes at liberals were harder to turn back against him.
Comment Posted By John On 16.09.2009 @ 12:03
IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT IN DC FOR PROTEST
What is the source for the picture? Was it taken today?
Thanks
Not from the antiwar protest of 2003:
http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/camera/9087/index.html
Traffic photo from earlier today. Insty has the shot on his blog:http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/85063/
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Comment Posted By John On 12.09.2009 @ 20:32
WOULD SOMEONE ON THE LEFT PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME?
A big part of this flight from logic goes back to what the left expected from last year's election. Basically, they expected conservatism to die, or at the very least fade away like the Whigs or become no more of a political factor during the Obama Administration than your average LaRouchite. What's happened this summer was not in the playbook 10 months ago.
Second is Beck's role in this. Having listened to him on radio a decade ago desperately trying to invent a persona that could make a mark on the national stage before finally hitting on the "Howard Beale Lite with a Wacky Sense of Humor" style in the early part of this decade, it wouldn't surprise me if Beck manages to flame out in the Morton Downey Jr., style sometime in the future. But in the Van Jones situation he got this one right, even if the most damning evidence involving the 9/11 Truther petition was dug up not by Beck, but by Jim Hoft.
For someone like Olbermann, who has gone to bed for at least the last six years dreaming of doing a story that forced Bush, Cheney or others in that administration to resign and/or being indicted, the idea that Beck would do it just nine months after joining Fox is maddening, especially since he and others on the left and been portraying Beck as a fool -- hate-filled, but a fool. No wonder he's acting like Herbert Lom's Chief Inspector Dreyfus reacting to Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau solving another crime.
Comment Posted By John On 8.09.2009 @ 06:46
MOVEMENT CONSERVATIVES vs. THE PRAGMATISTS: THE BATTLE IS JOINED
the original article is now located at:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/conservatism-dead
Comment Posted By John On 6.09.2009 @ 17:53
HEALTH CARE REFORM 'ENDGAME' AFOOT?
The minimal November mid-terms take on a bigger role now, especially if nothing's passed before Nov. 3. There aren't all that many races up for grabs, but people (especially politicians) remember the Republican wipe-out of the Dems in the '93 midterms was a portent for things to come in 1994, and candidate filing time starts in some places just a month after the elections. If you see similar results to '93 this time around, it's hard to picture some of the Democrats in the purple or red areas suddenly becoming emboldened to push forward on health care, especially since the House's version in likely to be more liberal than what comes out of the Senate.
Comment Posted By John On 4.09.2009 @ 08:06
