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Video: Can There Be a Populist Conservatism?

By | 06.16.10 | 4:13 pm

Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist conservatism? Here’s what Jonah Goldberg, Dick Armey, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Michael Barone had to say:

Justice Scalia Thinks a Cross Is a Secular Symbol

By | 10.29.09 | 3:40 pm

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. More…

Lt. Dan for President

By | 05.11.09 | 11:16 am

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

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Steve Moore on AIG ‘Looters’

By | 03.18.09 | 12:11 pm

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 More…

This Week on the Right

By | 01.23.09 | 7:02 pm

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 More…

The Last President

By | 01.16.09 | 11:09 am

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

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Not in Kansas Anymore

By | 01.13.09 | 9:44 am

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

By | 09.05.08 | 8:28 pm

The populist hero was born on a small farm not far from the Canadian border. As a boy, he scraped together money by raising chickens and managing a grocery store. He then worked his way through an unprestigious law school, and enlisted in the Marines to More…