Daily Archive: January 14, 2010
The Problem with Blue-Doggism (Hint: It isn’t the Blue Dogs)
(cross-posted from my blog) If you look at the breakdown for the House’s vote on health care reform, you’ll see that of the 39 Democrats voting against reform, 24 were Blue Dogs. Nearly each of...
The porn-ification of American culture continues apace!
TNR on Playboy and modern America. Roger Ebert: “Making out is its own reward.” Hear, hear!
Marginalizing extremists, at home and abroad
The trouble with folks like Mark Steyn is that all their clamor about Europe being swept away in a tide of hostile immigrants obscures the very real problem of assimilating new arrivals. Steyn, for...
Development is Not a Political Tool (w/ Ref. to Haiti)
David Rothkopf, in what I (charitably) assume is supposed to be a political self-confession (complete with self-flagellation) on Haiti: In all its benighted history, perhaps Haiti’s greatest moment of hope since its independence came...
The Tea Party Movement Grows Up
Mark Hemingway gives the Tea Partiers credit for supporting moderate Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts senate election.
Pat Robertson’s Greatest Hits
In the wake of Pat Robertson’s latest foray into amateur seismology, Joe Carter compiled a helpful list of the good reverend’s most egregious public statements. Read it and wince.
Health Care Reform and the Constitution
A pretty good George Will column on the constitutionality of a health insurance mandate. I’m waiting on our resident legal expert to weigh in with a more informed opinion.
