conservatism
Justice Scalia Thinks a Cross Is a Secular Symbol
Susan Jacoby in The Washington Post points out a largely overlooked exchange with Justice Antonin Scalia in that cross case heard by Supreme Court earlier this month. The case revolved around whether the government can keep a war memorial consisting of a solitary cross on public parkland. But while American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Peter [...]
Lt. Dan for President
Nicolle Wallace — the McCain campaign veteran most despised by the base — as they believe she was the one leaking damaging lines about Sarah Palin — tells the GOP to look beyond Alaska and toward “CSI: New York.”
One Republican I know suggested [ed - Why is this anonymously sourced? Isn't she suggesting this?] that [...]
Steve Moore on AIG ‘Looters’
I just talked with Steve Moore, the Club for Growth founder and current editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal, to get a sense of how dedicated free market conservatives were reacting to Republican demands for the AIG bonuses to be clawed back.
“The government is going to get the money back,” said Moore. “I’m [...]
This Week on the Right
Here’s a look at some worthy articles from the right side of the blogosphere and journospheres in this, week one of the Obama presidency.
1.) James S. Robbins, “Giving Up on Guantánamo” (National Review, 1/23/09)
A representative take, from the right, on the closing of Gitmo as “domestic political grandstanding, and a present to the terrorists and [...]
The Last President
Far-right anti-Obama blogger Pamela Geller got all misty watching the farewell address of “the last American president.”
We do not have a President-elect that loves this country, or one that grew up in America, that cherishes the constitution, that plays it straight. The President elect is an internationalist, not an America firster.
Look, let’s leave aside the [...]
Not in Kansas Anymore
Rod Dreher comes at us with an actual fresh look at the Right in exile. Not whining, not paeans to President Ronald Reagan’s tailor. And not slavering over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
The Great Populist Divide
Cultural populism has helped Republicans win many an election. Why haven’t liberals found a way to counter it?
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