Obama at ND — Or, Everyone Is Wrong

Joining the fray late, but better (I hope) than never, and probably nowhere near the end of this tortuous, torturous, obscene debate, I feel, if only to keep promises that I have made, that I need to say something about the matter of President Obama’s presenting the commencement address at my alma mater and receiving [...]

More on Why I’m not a Libertarian — Or, When Belief in “the Market” is just risible, sad, and disgusting

1. Sitting in peculiarly busy traffic in downtown Baltimore this afternoon, I read, on the news monitor wrapped around a trashily modern glass building, a headline from the Baltimore Sun that informed me that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has proposed a bill to create a new government agency “that could stop lenders from offering mortgages [...]

The Maryland Corner: “Redeeming Roger Taney”

(from the forthcoming issue of The Terrapin Times, the first installment of our new feature, dedicated to important political figures, past and present, on the Right from Maryland, tentatively called The Maryland Corner)

Americans have a way of spinning history to bolster our national mythology. JFK’s foreign policy was nightmarish — to speak nothing of [...]

Barack Obama and American maturity

Anyone who’s read this web-log, heard me rant about Mr. Obama as the second reincarnation of FDR (perhaps third, if we include the outgoing Mr. Bush), or knows anything about me recognizes that I have no interest in defending or desire to support our almost-president. I laugh, sadly, at those who have partaken of the [...]

What’s this, a web-log? What’s this, change?

Okay, so I have been dreadfully remiss in tending to Nathancontramundi. I’ve been busy receiving speeding tickets and enjoying time with the family and Christmas and not getting plastered on New Year’s Eve and applications to Ph.D. programs in political science (theory specifically) and trying to be a healthier person and trying to read [...]

Gersonian Idiocy

In today’s Washington Post, Gerson offers a column titled “Closet Centrist: In Obama’s Cabinet, the Audacity of Moderation”. Can someone please tell me how something as unsurprising as the picks President-elect Obama has made for his Cabinet constitute anything audacious?

The Catholic Capitulation: Blame the Leadership, Part I

A few weeks ago, I conversed online with a friend from Notre Dame, a devout, knowledgeable Catholic (undeniably better than I), who is married and the young mother of two adorable children, whom she and her husband intend to raise, and already raise, in the Faith and traditions of the Holy Mother Church, when she [...]

More on Why We Should Dread the Next Four (Eight? Twelve?) Years

John has it here and here.
Finally, a president who has no respect for civil liberties, has no qualm with terrible ag. subsidy policy, and wants to bail out Detroit!

Rahm Emanuel, briefly

Doubtless, others well versed in the intricacies of the Cook County/Chicago Machine can better elucidate just how indebted President-elect Obama is to the selfsame organization against which he purportedly fought in his days a community organizer. However, friend to Mr. Obama or not, Rahm Emanuel’s selection as chief of staff should remind us immediately of [...]

“Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush”

Yep, it’s already being said! I’m not, yet, convinced that I agree — throughout the campaign, I remained confident that McCain (even if, in the words of Scott McConnell, “Wilsonian bellicosity has visceral appeal for him”) and Obama, both, marked improvement from the six years of disastrous governance under the right branch of the War [...]