I Give Up
If there was ever even the faintest glimmer of hope for Wyden-Bennett or any other kind of meaningful health care reform proposal amenable to conservative and libertarian sensibilities, the Club For Growth just killed...
Tagged: conservatism
another slightly more academic-sounding addition to a relentlessly partisan and biased liberal blogosphere
“The League should feature higher standards for honest assessment, especially since I’ve commented on this exact point here once already. Honestly, I’ve thought very highly of the League in spite of its generally left-leaning...
Impulses and Vectors
Responding to my defense of the value of libertarianism/blatant excuse to repost Mr. Henley’s Jester quote, OG regulars Michael Drew and Bob make some great points about the idea of libertarianism-as-vector that led me...
Widespread Panic
I was going to debunk Andy McCarthy’s un-sourced descent into the fever swamps of ”Obama Birther-ism”, but Philip Klein has already gone and done the work for me, so go give his piece a...
hawks and owls
So, lately I’ve been trying to branch out a bit more – to see what the movement conservatives have to say and pay it a little more heed (rather than focusing only on the...
comedy and tragedy
Enlarging government is like doing drama. Limiting government is like doing comedy. Let me explain. At the Oscars, the Best Picture nominees are almost always dramas. Usually they are tragic and romantic and perhaps...
Nothing To See Here
One cost-free way for conservatives to appeal to minority voters would be to do a better job of policing internal discourse. After all, repeating “Party of Lincoln!” ad nauseum doesn’t really help things when...
Correctly Political: “Corner”ing the Market in Catholic teaching
~by jfxgillis I. Now and Then and Now Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical this week expressing Church doctrine with respect to the global political economy. I knew it would be described in the...
r-e-s-p-e-c-t
James Joyner points to this piece by Mark Tapcott, in which he says a lot of what many of us have been saying about appropriate discourse and the importance of language especially in regard...
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...
I like Ike
Dennis Sanders responds to my post on distrust of government and invokes Eisenhower by invoking Kelly Pipes:
distrust of government
“The Reaganite conservative does not trust the political system, and so is always trying to circumvent it; he does not trust the instincts of Congress, but places profound faith in the wisdom of the...
personae non gratae
Shorter me: Above all else, movement conservatives want to retain custody of what it means to be a conservative. They claim to hold the keys to the city, and they guard them jealously –...
another thought on empire
Tom at the Federalist Paupers has posted a bit of the Conor/Riehl debate Scott hosted in transcript form. One exchange that leaps out: Freidersdorf: I would say that there are some other big problems...
why I am not a neoconservative
I used to believe in humanitarian intervention. I used to truly believe that the right thing for America to do as a global superpower was to intervene where necessary to stop violence or genocide,...
Acting Like You Mean It: Show Your Work
To a certain extent, I think Freddie’s being too harsh on Reihan in this post. But at the same time, his broader point is an important one that I think a lot of conservatives...
Will the Real Conservatives Please Stay Where You Are?
Davey over at Theopolitical has a very sharp post up analyzing the epic (can I call it epic yet?) debate between Conor and Dan (well moderated by Br. Scott) here at the League over...
Sometimes We’re Wrong
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing on conservatism: But if you are the slave, that essentially conservative approach will always privilege your master over you. Conservatism, with its belief in institutions, traditions, and the past, will seemingly...
Stop the attacks?
Matthew Schmitz wants counter-conservatives to stop attacking the right-wing talk radio pundits: If the goal of Conor and others who have attacked talk radio is to save the Republican Party, I’m at a loss...
