Tagged: conservatives
Linky Friday: Parliamentary Procedures
Linky Friday: Parliamentary Procedures ft latest from our UK friends including Brexit, Labour defections, Troy rebellions, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May & more
Mugged By Reality: A Conservative for Universal Health Care
It’s past time for conservatives to ensure that no American has to worry about health care coverage because in the end we are our brother’s (and sister’s) keeper.
The Donald Sterling Scandal as a Minority Outreach Case Study
The public aftermath of the racist comments by the NBA Clippers’ owner offers a perfect microcosm for why the GOP fails so spectacularly at minority outreach. It also offers insight as to how that can reality be changed.
Unassailability: Meta Analysis
Did Rush Limbaugh really tell his caller, “Tony from Tampa,” to not watch FOX? No, he told his caller not to watch a particular panel of “liberals” on FOX Business Channel. As Mr. Limbaugh...
Why Conservatives Can’t Win the Non-Male Vote, “I’m Fishing Speechless” Edition
So here’s the thing. I’ve started this post maybe half a dozen times before scrapping it and starting over. I have no idea what to say. No idea. I am seriously fishing speechless. I’ve...
Let’s Not Demand an Apology from Ann Coulter
Although I like my “job” (grad student and lecturer in philosophy) enormously, it has its downsides. Ann Coulter’s “job” has many advantages over mine: she makes a lot more money, people likely treat her...
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
Can We At Least All Agree that John Derbyshire is Racist?
OK, I know that for supporters of the Right here that it’s a sign of either my intellectual dishonesty or my being an intellectual lightweight that I can hear even echoes of racism in...
The Ultimate Victory, The Final Defeat
Corey Robin was interviewed by David Johnson for the Boston Review, and at the very end the two of them got to talking about the GOP primary. At first, Robin repeated an argument I’ve heard...
Responsibility of Education
by Mike at the Big Stick A recent conversation has led me to do some deep thinking on the issue of school integration, more commonly known as ‘busing’. Let me preface this post by...
Political Trolls: What the GOP Hath Sowed
Scott’s post last week attacking the Republican behavior before, during and after the health care debate generated quite the lively discussion in the comments thread. Scott and many primarily left-of-center commenters argued that the...
Blond with Sandel(s)
Two of the League’s brethren attended Philip Blond’s lecture at Georgetown last week. Will’s review here, David’s here. For those interested, Blond’s thought has been a source of numerous posts in the League’s annals...
File this Under: Inappropriate Historical Analogies
(cross-posted from my blog) I know this shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but the Nuge is an idiot: “I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama...
“Racism.” As Defined by Clueless Conservatives
(cross-posted from the United States of Jamerica) Patterico, a conservative blogger, describes his “pontifications” as “harangues that make sense.” Assuming the definition of sense has remained relatively constant, this can’t possibly be the case. ...
You don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?
Note: This was a shitty movie. So, if Memeorandum is any indication, a few conservative bloggers have taken to mining fourth-rate dialogue from third-rate science fiction movies in order to make an absurd point about how...
The Iron Binary and Reagan’s Succession Crisis
By Kyle (of Vogue Republic) In the grand discussion of where should Conservative leaders lead and where do they go, it’s important to get a good lay of the land, a solid bearing of...
It’s a hard knock life, for unions
E.D. has a new post up at his True/Slant digs asking why John McCain hasn’t done much to participate in the health care debate. I don’t have much to say about the main substance...
12 Steps to a Healthy Republican Party
by Jaybird There is a scene in C.S. Lewis’s _The Great Divorce that has been sticking in my craw in the last month or so. It’s the scene where they talk about Napoleon. If...
