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Russell Kirk Meets Bashō
Mu Ch’i, Six Persimmons, 13th century, Japan, ink on paper, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan Andrew Sullivan, with an air of pious approbation, yesterday linked and quoted an interesting essay by Stewart K....
View ArticleLiberals Wear Green on Tuesday
Andrew Sullivan counsels the Obama Administration to rely upon restraint, and green neck ties (!), to effectuate the liberation of the people of Iran. [T]he evidence of outright fraud is now...
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Rule of Law Isn’t What It Used To Be Under Obama
Andrew looks smug in his Atlantic logo illustration. It’s nice having friends in high places. Remember George W. Bush? We used to have a president so rigidly righteous that he actually refused to...
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Deport Andrew Sullivan!
Heaven knows, Andrew Sullivan is a prolific and occasionally intelligent blogger. Andrew combines a rather wide ranging curiosity with a penchant for enthusiastic argument. But… Andrew has turned into...
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Palin Bashing
Morgan Freeberg has a number of personal observations about Palin bashers. Several of his points fit my own experience to a T. 1. They’ve achieved a great deal less in life than she has, even though...
View ArticleGhost Blogging
Blogging is surprisingly time consuming. It really does take a few hours to put out a respectable day’s worth of postings, and it has long been obvious to me that super-bloggers who deliver truckloads...
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Janet Napolitano: “The Traveling Public is Very Very Safe”
Janet Napolitano Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano assures CNN that “the system worked.” She announces with a note of assured complacency that “right now, we have no indication it...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Glenn Reynolds yesterday found the above photo on the White Houses’s Flicker page and posted it (along with the enlarged detail below) inviting readers to “interpret the body language.” Barack Obama...
View ArticleDelicious
Coakley appears destined to be buried in a landslide. Who could possibly have imagined that the public reaction in the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts would be so averse to Obamacare as to loosen the...
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“A Modernized, Reformed Conservatism”
David Frum David Frum, guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan, recently proposed the parlor game of writing a one-sentence description of a “modernized, reformed conservatism.” His own offering went as...
View ArticleConservative Bloggers Are More Critical And Fair-Minded
When a tasty news item confirming one’s own prejudices and assumptions and wreaking injury upon one’s political adversaries comes along, it is only natural that the partisan blogger will seize upon it...
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“Tough Budget Cuts”
Doug Ross illustrated the magnitude of President Obama’s “tough budget cuts” Since there was no hope of your seeing them in the initial chart, he then offered a 10x magnified close-up President...
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Demotions on the Left
When the American left needs to vent its rage at its reactionary opposition at the loudest volume and in the shrillest tones, when anything resembling rational debate simply will not do, when it’s time...
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Metaphorical Speech Crime
If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. What do you do when you’re supporting a duck as...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan On Blogging
I don’t agree much with Andrew Sullivan on politics these days (but, with Andrew’s record of instability, that may simply mean I only need to wait awhile until he becomes conservative again), yet I...
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Andrew Sullivan’s Is Playing His Own Game
Andrew Sullivan prefaces his recent Newsweek article offering an unusually optimistic assessment of the current president’s prospects and achievements by confessing: I write this as an unabashed...
View ArticleForever Obnoxious
The stupid, backward, and sexually inadequate residents of China and Vietnam suffer from a delusion that consuming the horn of the rhinoceros (black or white) will increase, or restore, their potency....
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“What Is Best in Life?
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! –Conan the Barbarian Yesterday, we got to listen to the delightfully loud...
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Military Award Proliferation: US Army Versus Communist China
David Petraeus wore regularly a lot more awards than Dwight Eisenhower did many years ago. Marines have long remarked humorously on the proliferation of awards, badges, and decorations worn by members...
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“Your Purring Little Murderer”
Sullyblog recently found itself another humanitarian crusade to climb on board. Bad enough our letting the Bush Administration roughly handle jihadi terrorists (Torture!). On top of that, we allow...
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