Beyond Derbyshire
In Oklahoma, this story has been unfolding for the past few days: TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two men were arrested Sunday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black...
Daily Archive: April 9, 2012
Eating Peas
Fellow Ordinaries Elias Isquith and Mike Dwyer have fired the opening shots in our discussion about the latest budget proposal from that fiscal firebrand from Janesville, Paul Ryan, and Tod Kelly (who has just been...
Enough already with the “Socialist this,” and the “Social Darwinist that”
One of the big topics raging through the Blogoshere this week stems from the “thinly veiled social Darwinism” meme that the left is currently test-ballooning. Jennifer Rubin, Robert Wright, the NYT, Beck’s Blaze, Red...
Role Reversals
Elias’ latest post gave me a little epiphany this morning. He mentions social Darwinism as a feature of the Paul Ryan budget proposal, the not-so-subtle subtext of course is that conservatives believe in social Darwinism
Paul Ryan Strikes Again: The Reihan Salam Edition
Reihan Salam is, best as I can tell, the smartest right-wing pundit of his generation. He also seems, by and large, to be a decent guy. He’s not especially vitriolic or militant and he...
