My only thoughts on CPAC

Typed on a Sticky Note so that I could express my thoughts to Sarah, my layout editor, without further irritating the girl sitting in front of me who couldn’t handle my negative comments.
This event is called “Will Obama’s Tax Policy Kill Entrepreneurship?”
I have not yet heard anyone speak of entrepreneurship. I’ve heard that our president [...]

Lincoln

Will, at Dispatches, has a post-Presidents Day post in which, amongst other things, he links, critically, to my Terrapin Times piece on Roger B. Taney. He packs quite a pit into a brief paragraph, so I’ll post it in its entirety and respond as appropriate.
I’m baffled by the rise of anti-Lincoln sentiment on some quarters of the Right. [...]

The Ron Paul Interview

On Monday morning, 13 October, I spoke with Congressman Ron Paul for about eighteen minutes. Find hereunder the edited transcript of that conversation, which I intend to publish in the forthcoming late-October pre-election issue of The Terrapin Times. 

NPO: I want this paper not just to offer commentary, but to have an intellectual tone to it, [...]

Don’t blame the SoCons

Schwenkler:
To repeat: religious and social conservatives, like quite a lot of other conservatives, certainly deserve to be criticized for enabling the GOP’s collapse, and Rod isn’t saying otherwise. But causing it? By way of actual policy successes? Come on now …
This, in response to Rod’s piece, wherein he reminds us that blame for the GOP’s [...]

Bangarang! A pretty sweet zing from Sarah Palin

“I guess a small-town mayor is sorta like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
I have to give her credit for that one: It cracked me up. And it’s true. (I say this, of course, as a really bitter urban planning student.)

“He’s still my guy.”

I really hoped that we’d get some substance from Palin. The closest thing I heard was my roommate, Robert, reacting excitedly to the cameraman’s focusing on some girl with “huge boobs”, who turned out to be Bristol Palin. Nice job, Robert.

“Drill, baby, drill!”

Really? They actually wear “Drill ANWR now” badges at the RNC? You have to be f**king kidding me. I’m not necessarily wholly opposed to drilling in ANWR, but I realize that it will be a “drop in the bucket”, anyway, perhaps not worth the environmental damage. I cannot believe that the GOP has [...]

Do Democrats think before speaking?

I know that Republicans rarely do; the Democrats seem to follow suit. In today’s Washington Post, in “Assessing Sarah Palin”, Democratic pollster Douglas E. Schoen offers the following brilliance (Read the whole piece for his complete thoughts and the opinions of others, including a couple of grade-A morons.):
By passing up obviously qualified candidates such as [...]

A bit more on McCain-Palin

Already, I’ve heard accusations of pandering and of “trying to do something historic, too” directed toward John McCain in the wake of his announcement today. Moreover, some — including, as I noted before, Obama’s campaign — question Governor Palin’s experience and qualifications. As my aunt noted with surprise, Sarah Palin has not served as governor [...]

More Culture11 goodness!

Joe Carter offers a thoughtful, lucid, important disagreement with Mr Suderman’s post on the GOP’s platform plank respective stem-cell research.
First of all, there is no real need for embryo-destructive research. Last November, scientists discovered how to create embryonic-type stem cells that can be produced directly from ordinary human skin cells, without first creating or [...]