My recent work at Post Right

“Friedersdorf on Happy Meal-Conservative Talk Radio”: Conor ably calls out Mark Levin, et alios
“Caritas in Veritate“: Pope Benedict has a social encyclical due at month’s end.
“Call Me Skeptical”: Netanyahu, in my humble estimation, is a snake. A “sovereign” Palestine, as he envisions it, will be no freer of Israel than George W. Bush was [...]

Sign of the Times

Now in his early fifties, my father receives the monthly AARP Bulletin. On page sixteen of the June 2009 issue, I learn from the header of the cover, I can read all about the following:
“Scam Alert: Is Your Facebook Friend An Identity Thief?”
This troubles me for at least three reasons.

May I Have Your Attention, Please?

Starting today, I shall be dividing my resumed Weblogging between this humble site and Post Right the newest Weblog hosted by The American Conservative. I am ineffably grateful to Kara, Dan, and everyone else at TAC for welcoming me and for providing another wonderful, necessary outpost for the “Alternative Right.” We’ve a great, supremely eclectic [...]

Support Your Daily Source of Principled Conservatism

Last month, the editors of The American Conservative announced that without a significant increase in financial resources, this bastion of reasoned thought on the Right would go under. Happily, they announced that, having enjoyed most generous responses from their readership, TAC will survive, although now as a monthly, rather than bi-weekly publication.
Recently, John Schwenkler’s [...]

(Some) Journalists to get a (quasi-)Bailout?

My thoughts on Ben Cardin’s proposal, at The Terrapin Times.

UMD’s Diamondback and the State of “Higher Education.” FML.

Over at The Terrapin Times, I’m sad.

Average Joe (Stupid is the not-so-new Average)

Joe the Plumber wants to let the world hear the stories of Israel’s Average Joe’s. And he’s going to have the chance.
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR’-zuhl-bah-kur) says he’ll spend [...]

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Liberal media much?

Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn’t a journalist and never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey.
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Why is a windfall-profits tax good for Alaska but not for [...]

I seem to have misspoken!

Fortunately, Timothy Egan, of the venerable New York Times, has set me straight. Governor Palin is “[m]litantly anti-choice”.