Common Sense
Damon Linker on appeals to common sense in American politics is worth reading, even if he overlooks the fact that like all rhetorical tropes, celebrating the intuition of the American people is a thoroughly...
Monthly Archive: December 2009
For The Record
Jonah Goldberg (among others) seems offended by the fact that Obama blames the situation in Afghanistan on his predecessor. Blaming Bush may be evergreen for the Democrats, but in this case, it happens to...
Drink!
I didn’t have the opportunity to watch the speech tonight, but I have a long history of enjoying drinking games with a politician speech theme (the annual Bush SOTU drinking games I used to...
Rant of the Day
Ken at Popehat on the War on the War on Christmas. There are few things more likely to get a link from me than pointing out that the war against political correctness is almost...
Quick Reax to Leaked Obama Afghan Plan
The news is out on what appears to be the Obama plan on Afghanistan. It’s obviously quite provisional at this point, but it seems to line up with what I thought would be the...
It Can’t Happen Here
On the eve of Virginia’s absurd smoking ban, it seemed appropriate to link to Neil Clarke’s reflection on public smoking and the death of liberal England. Granted, Clarke is an old socialist with about...
The Only Thing That Matters in War is Looking Tough
Peter Feaver writing in the Shadow Gov’t blog does an e-squat and drops a steaming pile of foreign policy cow manure. But it’s worth reading insofar as it gives us a sense of Republican...
Mercy
It looks as if Huckabee’s decision to grant clemency to an unstable criminal will cost him the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Joe Carter, who worked on the governor’s campaign, has written a great...
Charles Johnson breaks from the right
Well you saw this coming even if you didn’t read the interview I did with him a few weeks back. James Joyner parses out Johnson’s list and I have to say, I agree with...
