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A certain liberal aversion to discourse/criticism
2012-01-20 22:18:00 Ever since college, I have blessed with friends and teachers holding political views opposed to my own. My favorite political science professor in college was — and remains — a Marxist. One of my favorite professors in law school has since become one of the leading liberal jurist in the country. These professors, like many ... More About: Liberal , Criticism
Lessons from ?The Waiting Place? of LA Traffic
2012-01-20 21:36:00 Perhaps the main reason I posted my rant yesterday on my travails of LA traffic was because they had so drained me of the creative that had nourished me previously in the day. After dashing out my Iron Lady post, I just couldn’t focus. And that lack of focus caused me to wonder about the ... More About: Movies , Traffic , Random Thoughts , Pop Culture , Place
Satisfaction with big government at all-time low
2012-01-20 18:30:00 Gallup releases yet another poll showing just how of touch is the incumbent President of the United States with the general tenor of the American people. According to a Gallup poll released yesterday: Americans’ satisfaction with the size and power of the federal government is at a record-low 29% and their satisfaction with the size ... More About: Government , Time , Big Government
Newt surging* because he?s standing up to legacy media
2012-01-20 18:18:00 I have yet to watch a single debate, learning about them only through blog reports, on-line transcripts and Youtube clips. I don’t think the format is conducive to a serious discussion of the issues and believe you can learn more about a candidate by considering his record and reviewing his platform. Having interned for Newt, ... More About: Media , Media Bias
Falling Down in Los Angeles Traffic
2012-01-20 00:57:00 Yesterday, while pumping gas, I saw a woman melt down when unable to fill her Lexus SUV with gas. I silently mocked her. Today, I sympathized with her. Maybe she had had the kind of traffic I did today and the challenge of self-serve gasoline was the straw which broke the proverbial camel’s back. Driving ... More About: America , Movies , Traffic , Los Angeles , Pop Culture
The Iron Lady: Great acting, flawed storytelling
2012-01-20 00:28:00 Just got back from seeing an early show of The Iron Lady with a conservative friend. Both of us agreed that the film lacked a political agenda and indeed largely put Margaret Thatcher’s conservatism in a positive light. The problem of the film was not its politics, but its storytelling. It seemed more an exercise ... More About: Movies , Great , Pop Culture , Acting
Distraction Journalism
2012-01-19 18:48:00 Some supposedly well-informed writers attempt, at the dawn of this election year, with an apparent straight face, contend that the incumbent president “as yet has not had a single significant scandal to his name.” They get away with this because our supposedly even-handed legacy media choose not to report stories which, if they had occurred ... More About: Journalism , Media Bias , Distraction , Where , Scrutiny
Why Do They Hate?
2012-01-19 03:03:00 All gay and lesbian conservatives seem to have one experience in common, that of facing the hostile prejudice of our liberal peers. Some (but fortunately not all) of our ideological adversaries ever so quick to deem any opposition to their agenda as “hateful” seem to harbor themselves a lot of hatred toward individuals who do ... More About: Hate
The GOP?s perception problem
2012-01-19 00:45:00 Yesterday on Facebook, a friend posted this: Newt Gingrich has an issue with hypothetical Muslim candidates who would not respect other religions and push Shariah agendas yet Republicans do just that with fundamentalist Christianity and their religious agendas. Emphasis added. She’s not the first intelligent individual to have made such an observation. Relating my experience ... More About: Freedom , Media Bias , Problem
Always looking for somebody else to blame
2012-01-19 00:01:00 At least since the 2004 the then-state Senator delivered his paean to national unity at the Democratic National Convention, there have been two Barack Obamas, the inspiring orator aspiring to transcend partisan politics and the bare-knuckled Chicago politician seeking to advance his own partisan interests. On the one hand, the Democrat claims he’s “trying to ... More About: Change , Hope
From Steve Jobs to Walt Disney
2012-01-18 22:26:00 Earlier today, I finished Walter Isaacson’s most excellent biography of Steve Jobs . And highly recommend it, despite some glaring flaws. At time, the book seems slapdash (which makes sense given how quickly the book was published after the death of the entrepreneur). And he seems to treat Jobs’s wife with kid gloves — as if ... More About: Disney , Steve Jobs , Walt Disney
Why Bookstores Matter
2012-01-18 00:09:00 As a bibliophile, I fear the coming demise of an institution and product I love, the bookstore and the physical book. With technology, we became able first to order books online, then to buy electronic editions, both actions facilitated by one particular company. The virtual bookstore, however, could not replace several aspects of the brick-and-mortar ... More About: Matter , New Media
Right on, Ron Paul
2012-01-17 23:24:00 For a great variety of reasons, I don’t think Ron Paul will run on the Libertarian Party ticket should he (as most expect) fail to win the Republican nomination. Indeed, I would wager that he will end up endorsing the GOP nominee. (Will explore this in a subsequent post.) Given my theory, I quickly clicked ... More About: Freedom
FOX/South Carolina GOP Debate Tonight
2012-01-17 05:34:00 Quite simply, Newt kicked ass. And Juan Williams (over)playing the race card was despicable. That is all. G’nite. -Bruce (GayPatriot) UPDATE (from Dan): I didn’t catch the debate, but from scanning the blogs, seems everyone is buzzing about the exchange Bruce mentions above. I believe this is the clip (via Jim Geraghty): More About: Debate , South , South Carolina , Tonight , Carolina
Does Rick Santorum hate gay people. . .
2012-01-17 00:58:00 . . . or, is his opposition to gay marriage just, as he says, a “public policy difference”? I have my differences with Santorum and cannot support his bid for the Republican nomination, but tend to the latter view. I don’t think he hates gay people. Joel Gehrke at the Washington Examiner posted about a ... More About: People , Rick , Hate
Slow Blogging/Remembering Dr. King?s American message
2012-01-17 00:38:00 I apologize for the slow blogging of late, but my mind has drifted away from politics these past few days. Do have something to say about Huntsman’s withdrawal basically revolving around the notion that he offered a conservative platform, yet campaigned as a moderate. That, in the end, I believe did him in. As today ... More About: Holidays , Blogging , American , Message , King
E-Harmony-Candidate.com?
2012-01-14 14:11:00 I woke up this morning to this interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal. The Koskenniemi brothers thought they were doing America ns a favor when they decided to create a Finnish-style online political-candidate picker for the U.S. In Finland, candidates answer surveys about their positions, which are used to match voters, computer dating-style, with the ... More About: Harmony
Athena gets what?s at stake in Bain kerfuffle
2012-01-14 00:27:00 No one knows for certain yet whether the decision of Newt Gingrich to attack Mitt Romney for his work at Bain will end up hurting or helping Romney’s campaign. Most conservatives believe the attack now gives the GOP frontrunner the chance to prepare a response. In her column today, Peggy Noonan understands what’s at stake: ... More About: Freedom
The Urination Relativism
2012-01-13 19:26:00 From the New York Post: (h/t – Instapundit) For our part, we?re withholding judgment. There have been too many such seemingly shocking episodes that, upon investigation, turn out to be less than that. The high-profile case of Marine Lt. Ilario Pantano ? accused of murdering Iraqis, but exonerated late last year ? certainly illustrates the ... More About: War On Terror , Relativism
Commenters: You Have Been Warned
2012-01-13 01:42:00 I have had enough. Dan has a lot more stomach for insulting comments on our blog, but I do not. I appreciate his attempt to politely suggest that the conversation around here has been degrading and trying to rein it in. It didn’t work. So, I’m stepping in. This policy is STILL in effect: Commenting ... More About: Blogging
Gallup: conservatism remains dominant American ideology
2012-01-13 00:27:00 Bruce just alerted me to this Gallup poll showing just stable American s’ ideological preferences have been since just after Obama took office: Interesting how the percentage identifying as liberals inched during the second half the George W. Bush administration as the percentage seeing themselves as conservative declined, only to quickly rebound once Obama took office. ... More About: Conservatism , Ideology
Rudy calls Newt out on his anti-capitalist rhetoric
2012-01-13 00:18:00 H/t: Jennifer Rubin. More About: Calls , Rudy
Anti-gay rhetoric (or social issue focus) doesn?t win GOP primaries
2012-01-12 22:54:00 “Anti- gay rhetoric,” contended the friend of a liberal friend in a recent Facebook thread, “is one of the main points of all of their [i.e., Republican] campaigns.” Really now? By and large, Republican candidates have steered clear of gay issues (save when the media bring them up). And for good reason. Making such rhetoric ... More About: Social , Focus
Karger bests Bachmann in New Hampshire
2012-01-12 22:52:00 Here’s a fun little tidbit that the Fred Karger campaign shared these tweet from Politico’s Kenneth Vogel: After neck-&-neck NH primary night, openly gay candidate @FredKarger beats pray-away-the-gay candidate Michele Bachmann 485 to 347*. The Minnesota Congressman may have dropped out of the race, but her name was still on the ballot. Calling this “a ... More About: New Hampshire , Hampshire
So did I, Laura, so did I
2012-01-12 21:37:00 Laura Bush wanted Jeb to run in 2012: Sarasota H-T: Former first lady Laura Bush wishes there were one more candidate in the Republican presidential primary: Jeb Bush. Speaking to a sold-out Sarasota audience on Wednesday, Bush said she had hoped that her brother-in-law and former Florida governor would have jumped into the race this ...
?I?d like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian
2012-01-12 18:12:00 So would I, Senator DeMint. That is why I, like you, agree that our presidential candidates need to listen to the Texas Congressman: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Wednesday the Republican presidential candidates need to listen to Ron Paul and would benefit from integrating some of his libertarian ideas into their platform. “One of the ... More About: Freedom , Party , Republican Party , Libertarian
Puzzled by the president?s reelection strategy
2012-01-12 14:15:00 Barack Obama obviously has not learned from Bill Clinton. As the last Democrat to occupy the Oval Office (before Mr. Obama) was facing reelection, the Arkansas native remained above the fray. To be sure, the Democratic National Committee did run outside the major media markets attacking the the team of Dole-Gingrich; Mr. Clinton went about ... More About: President , Strategy
Jon Huntsman on paper (& in person)
2012-01-12 08:28:00 Just before the polls in New Hampshire closed on Tuesday, I caught my guy on FoxNews. It was one of the few times I had seen the former Utah Governor on TV. It struck me that I had come to my decision to back Jon Huntsman almost exclusively based on what I had read in ... More About: Paper , Person
And THIS Is Why We Need National Voter ID Laws
2012-01-12 02:33:00 Why don’t people GET it? Hard-working Americans’ votes are disenfranchised by organized groups, like ACORN, when any hint of this crap goes on. Moe Lane at RedState makes a very important point: Now, let?s be clear: those nice old people running the polling stations? They?re not actively involved in a secret conspiracy to defraud the ... More About: National , Laws
A divisive leader & his false choices
More articles from this author:2012-01-12 00:40:00 Can you imagine how the media would have reacted if the immediate past President of the United States told a group of Republican donors that Democrats threatened the “very core of what this country stands for.” Well, at a campaign event two days ago at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., his successor did just ... More About: America , Change , Hope 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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