(UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD) Joe Carter, with whom Barrett will be brawling beginning tomorrow, makes a highly unique argument with regards to the Tea Party, at least to the extent that he is making...
Charles Murray sees an insidious plot to seize control of America. It’s the rise of a new ruling class, a societal coup d’etat: the rise of the “New Elite.” They’re particularly sinister in that...
Jim Geraghty has a great article on the foibles of a movement candidate from Nevada, including one statement that sounds awfully close to an endorsement of prohibition:
Ben Smith points to the first real bipartisanship we’ve seen for quite some time: Bipartisanship is a rare thing in Washington, but the Senate just 96-0 to pass a bill to "Audit the Fed,"...
Tension between libertarian-leaning tea partiers and the GOP’s social conservative base was probably inevitable, but the most interesting part of the Politico’s story on a split within the movement is a disagreement over the...
A reader writes: Erik, as someone who lives in the Mighty Whitey Elite NY-DC Corridor, but who comes from Tea Party America, and who has lots of friends and relatives highly sympathetic to the...
Despite some quibbles with his characterization of the modern Left, I hope Dan Riehl is very much on the right track in arguing that the old movement conservative establishment is no longer capable of holding the...
Like Allahpundit – and, surprisingly to me, for the same reasons – I have no idea whatsoever what the newly-released Mount Vernon Statement is supposed to accomplish. It amounts to a statement that the old Three-Legged...
There are many things wrong with what James is trying to say in this post. I will try to tackle a few of them. The meat of the post, which is also the part...
It is impossible to understand politics in the United States over the last 12 months without some in-depth discussion of the impact of the Tea Party movement. Over the course of the last several...
“In short, liberals and conservatives refuse to see the areas in which they have common ground because far too often they simply cannot get past the cultural markers that prevent them from even listening...
Jane Hamsher has been taking a lot of flak in recent days for coming out against the Senate health care reform bill as well as for suggesting that “both the [progressive opponents] and the...
I can see where Jane Hamsher’s tea-party/populist left united front thing could seem appealing as a movement against something (the no-good politicians in Congress and their corporate special-interest shenanigans).
A lot of the reaction to my conservapedia piece falls along the lines that you would expect – essentially that I’m painting with too broad a brush. I probably was in that post. Obviously...
This interview with Andy Schlafly [below] of conservapedia.com is hard to watch. It’s almost embarrassing. I think Colbert is at his best for most of the exchange, and the zinger about creating his own reality...
Mark says it all too well: Conservative wonks simply aren’t doing their jobs. What they are doing is picking apart liberal proposals, picking apart conservative proposals, attacking the low-hanging fruit of conservative extremism, and occasionally...
Jonathan Chait’s essay on Ayn Rand is worth a read. Given the rise of the tea party movement, his basic point – that Rand’s influence has led to an over-emphasis on a morally absolutist...
“I told you about these people. They only mate with their own kind. It’s yuppie inbreeding. That’s why they’re retarded and wear the same clothes. They don’t feel love. They only negotiate love moments. ...
Okay, I’m still trying to figure out why these Tea Parties bother me so much. There’s a number of things that just feel wrong, on a sort of intangible level. I’m constantly reminded of...
Scott (and, by implication, Freddie) has put together a challenging retort to my arguments that most large-scale political protests are inevitably undermined by the unpreventable introduction of irrelevant issues into the protest and are thus...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsquite mad, indeed.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Agreed.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThey also didn't want to hold their nose at work with people that made them wretch. Many of them als… on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationswestern lens of martyrdom culture.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25You had two that auto-trashed. I fished them out.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Do I have comments in mod? I'd swear I replied to this.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25If there's something there, I'm sure Schakowsky's people can dig it up. Right now all we have is a w… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I agree with the age thing but there are better primary challengers out there or maybe not. Diane Fe… on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThe Pro-Palestinian movement basically convinced itself that the only way to achieve true justice (T… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I'd go with #10. We've had 3 DJT election cycles now, and there's not an obvious successor. The guy…
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