Sullivan posts an interesting theory:
Traditional liberalism is moribund; and Bush and Rove have destroyed conservatism as a coherent governing philosophy. It’s obvious from this blog that I too find Ron Paul and Barack Obama by far the most interesting candidates. Not because I agree with them on everything. But because they alone represent the courage […]

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Hmm. The military famously tilts conservative, or so we are assured by conservatives. But money-wise that may be changing, suggests a new poll showing that “members of the U.S. military have dramatically increased their political contributions to Democrats, marching sharply away from the party they’ve long supported.”
And as The Plank notes, the most interesting aspect […]

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Daniel Larison opposes it and Fred Thompson’s use of it as well:
During his appearance on The Tonight Show, Fred said something that is rather stunningly and obviously untrue:
Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples … than all the other countries put together.
There’s nothing terribly edifying in this kind of […]

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Looking to get down with this groovy internets thing.

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A second history class last evening, with the discussion focusing on the Missouri Compromise, the role slavery played in the crisis and how these were perhaps the first tears in the national fabric that would lead to civil war.
It’s fascinating stuff for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that when we’re in […]

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Ramesh Ponnuru over at the Corner, wondering if the Craig business isn’t indicative of something beyond one man’s demons/perversions:
There was a period in the 1990s when every few months you’d read about some British Tory politician found dead of autoerotic asphyxiation, or somesuch, and of course it was right after the Tories had started a […]

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Hmmm. Kunstler seems particularly cranky/depressing this week:
The scores of billions of dollars and euros that central banks have poured into the maw of losses lately will only paper over the essential problem for another few weeks, at most. The damage to global structured finance has been done, and it can be stated rather precisely: a […]

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Not saying this couldn’t happen to a Democratic Senator/Rep, but it does seem rather odd that the party of “Hate teh Gay” seems so replete with, you know, gays.
How much self-loathing has to be involved for a closeted gay man to stump publicly, and vote for, anti-gay legislation?

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We were at Clipper Magazine Stadium for the Atlantic League All-Star game last month, and the pre-game festivities seemed to drag on just short of forever.

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Awesome: A group of stay-the-coursers are funneling some $226,000-plus into the Harrisburg-Lancaster ad market, trying to get you to call Sen. Arlen Specter and tell him we need to keep surging forever in Iraq.
All told the group, “Freedom’s Watch” (who names these things?) is pumping $15 million into 20 states, most of it in Republican districts, with […]

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The print version last week, of course, was a recycled version of something first appearing in this space, a depressed/depressing assessment of the undeniable fact that no matter what happens in Iraq, whether the “surge” is actually working or not, we are going to keep on surging, we are going to stay the course, regardless.
Oh, […]

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To illustrate, perhaps, what we’ve been discussing here over the past few days, peruse the pic above. It comes from YearlyKos, and on the stage are seven of the eight leading Democratic presidential candidates - including the top three, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Bill O’Reilly, of course, is in the midst of a […]

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Interesting. E.J. Dionne has a very perceptive column today in which he writes about Yearly Kos (my buddy Pastor Dan is in Chicago right now, hobnobbing with the other “hate site” types that bug Bill O’Reilly so much) and how Kos is, in fact, the Rush Limbaugh of the aughts; how Kos in particular, but […]

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You’ve seen, probably, that Larry Flynt says he’s got about 30 “solid” names of pols and other notables connected to the D.C. Madam - and he was “shocked, especially, at one Senator.”
Which leads to all sorts of speculation. Brownback? Lieberman?
Santorum?
Well, he’s not a Senator anymore. And God doesn’t like me that much.

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…is “none of the above.”

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Pathetic. I’m watching the presser, and he keeps repeating how “I believe we must succeed” in Iraq, and “We have to succeed.”
So because we must succeed we will succeed; we can do anything we set our minds to - though it may, objectively, be unachievable - becuase this is America. And freedom. And terrorists and […]

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Orders Harriet Miers to defy House committe subpoena and not even show up to invoke privelege today. Josh Marshall tipster suggests the Leader may be leaping from the frying pan into the fire.

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If the 26 percenters are interested in why so much of the country has turned against the Leader - and of course they aren’t interested, it’s the 74 percent who are wrong, they and the Leader who are unquestionably right - they might look no further than this, yet another former administration official telling Congress […]

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Turning left after two decades leaning right.
But it’s all just the liberal media anyway…
“We are returning to our liberal, working-class roots, a position that pits us squarely opposite the Chicago Tribune — that Republican, George Bush-touting paper over on moneyed Michigan Avenue,” Reed wrote. “We’re rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing […]

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An independent Colin Powell-Michael Bloomberg ticket might fill that centrist, Mr. Fix-It void. It’s not gonna happen, says Ross Douthat - but if it did, they just might win.

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