Tory Anarchist vs Front Porch Republic
Read Daniel McCarthy’s critique of the Front Porch, dovetailing rather nicely with many of my own reservations of the localists and agrarians:
Daily Archive: June 30, 2009
Mark Levinsane Strikes Again and Again and Again
Apparently all one has to do is write a post with a title similar to this one to get on Mark Levin’s increasingly long and decreasingly witty “most deranged bloggers” list, as friend of...
I Ching for dissident conservatives
My friend Jack Gillis thinks dissident conservatives shouldn’t try to form a big tent with the movement, and offers up this from the I Ching:
the things people say on the internet
“Since his departure from the Washington Times, Stacy McCain has become perhaps the most skilled attention whore in all the blogosphere. Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.” ~ James...
They’re coming to get you Barbara…
Why is it that when I think of people who still continue to argue that the Community Revinvestment Act (“CRA”) played some role in the financial crisis, I think of zombie movies? This, however, has...
Why I Hate the US Press Corps
After starting the daily briefing with a question about the president’s response to Michael Jackson’s death, the questions for Gibbs quickly shifted to what is becoming one of the most hotly contested sub-debates in...
Talking Carbon Tariffs
Here’s Paul Krugman, defending the proposed Waxman-Markey carbon tariffs: What’s happening here, I think, is that people are relying on what Paul Samuelson called an economic “shibboleth” — they’re relying on some slogan rather...
