Obama and Pakistani Politics
The huge news out of Pakistan this week is that cronies of President Asif Zardari (widower of Benzair Bhutto) in the Supreme Court have banned Zardari’s primary rival former PM Nawaz Sharif from holding...
Monthly Archive: March 2009
Redefining Prosperity
The modern conservative movement is built upon a paradox. Indeed, both Parties in the United States system – and there are functionally only two – have long preached basically the same message. Means are...
Capital not Trade Regulation
Erik’s post on protectionism got Freddie thinking about control of labor flows and me thinking about control of capital flows. Normally as say with ag subsidies, the discussion is focused on (self-described) free trade...
Regarding Rush
I suppose the reason I haven’t commented much on the resurgence of Rush Limbaugh into the national spotlight, is I have never, ever taken the Great Bloviator seriously. He’s always been just another talk-radio...
re: PC and Mac
I hate to do this, but to all the emailers who told me, in response to this post, that nobody actually believes that there are meaningful sociological differences between PC and Mac users, well…....
Front Porch Republic
So this is a neat new site for any of you who may read Daniel Larison, Rod Dreher, Patrick J. Deneen and the many other conservative writers who make up Front Porch Republic. I’m...
pbs doc: inside the meltdown
Cheerful viewing. This is the recent PBS Frontline Documentary on the financial implosion. It’s got some heavy hitters, and I like it in some regards. My main criticism of the piece however is the...
quote of the day
“Conservatives seem to have spent the last year rapidly regressing from cheering on lame politicians who could at least intelligently recite their platitudes (Romney) to worshipping pseudo-populists who could not even do that (Palin)...
you can’t support the labor movement and illegal immigration
Erik’s post on protectionism has me thinking about another kind of protectionism, the one about illegal immigration and its consequences for our labor force. I still run around with a pretty radical crew, often...
Protectionism and National Security
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is...
Liberal First Principles
Freddie writes: Look, I think the important question remains whether or not Kaus’s work is to the benefit of the liberal cause or not. To me, the answer is “usually not.” But that’s an...
Hollow Men
This is how a movement ends… this is how a movement ends…. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. (video via Yglesias)
Sunday Poem
P The Creation of Sound by Wallace Stevens If the poetry of X was music, So that it came to him of its own, Without understanding, out of the wall Or in the ceiling,...
