Blue v. Red
Ed Achorn’s column, yesterday, is more relevant to today’s demonstration than may seem at first to be the case: What’s at the center of [Brown’s Columbus Day] debate, and others like it, is whether we believe in our civilization anymore. Growing numbers of people seem to be losing faith in it. To my mind, Columbus…
Stephen DiGianfilippo of East Greenwich ponders whom the stimulus actually stimulates: Like most members of Congress, I, too, lacked the time to actually read the 1,000-plus pages of the so-called “stimulus package.” From what I understand from media coverage, however, it provides funds for things like Food Stamps and “free” health care; “tax cuts” for…
It’s a tragicomic truism that members of the cultural movement, with roots in the “Sexual Revolution,” that presses for the acceptance of ever more licentious behavior, that peppers popular culture with lewd images and innuendo, and that leverages carnal lust as an enticement toward the trap of its radical worldview often accuse those who stand…
Overwhelming obligations and only mild interest have limited the attention that I’ve paid to the JournoList controversy with which readers of the national conservative blogosphere will surely be familiar. Now that the discussion has transitioned into one of the semantics of racism, however, a brief comment is irresistible. By way of background, New Republic publisher…
Curious about how conservative Obama fans are getting along, I checked in with the man whose leg the messiah made tingle with knowledge, David Brooks. Here is a guy who reallly, really wants to believe: If ever this kind of domestic revolution were possible, this is the time and these are the people to do…
Can we now be clear about what it fundamentally means to strive for “bipartisan” action? Reed said economists “on both sides of the political divide” concluded “this stimulus was necessary, that we had to stop the job losses, we had to get people back into the marketplace, that there was a very real fear of…
The Coen Brothers’ 2007 film No Country For Old Men revolves around the tale of several young men engaged in a violent race for a satchel of cash. Tommy Lee Jones plays an aging sheriff investigating the depressing trail of bloodshed, markings that inform the old man that the customs and morals that guided his…
For his latest column, Bishop Tobin imagined the interview he would conduct with President Obama: TOBIN: But the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions is very controversial. It’s a divisive policy. It violates the conscience of millions of Americans who respect life and oppose abortion. Isn’t that completely contrary to your goal of…
Now here’s an interesting, disturbing idea: Undoubtedly you’ve heard the calls for a return of the Fairness Doctrine. Listen, I am so sick and tired of “fair and balanced” as the next person yet I believe in separation of press and state. Hmmm. What to do…what to do? I got it! How about reversing the…
I’m sure Tom Daschle had every intention of filing three years of amended tax returns (one for every year since he was bumped from public office, I believe) whether or not he’d been presented with the opportunity of joining the Obama administration: Thomas A. Daschle recently filed amended tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007…
