December 2010
10 posts
WSJ editorial board can't see the forest (of Tea... →
Looking more and more blinded by its essential intellectual snobbery about Sarah Palin (wrong colleges, lack of New Englandish polished nuance), the Wall Street Journal again misses the point. Sure, the new populists want repeal of ObamaCare. But the Feds decreeing what to serve kids for lunch in public elementary schools happens to resonate with parents. The editors should get sensitive to...
“Confederate President Jefferson Davis, a major slaveholder, “justified...”
– As we begin the commemoration of the Civil War’s sesquicentennial this year (April 12, 2011), conservatives need to take back the real history of the war - the fight against slavery led by Republican President Abraham Lincoln. Southern pols are attempting the history re-write for their own...
Sam Adams Alliance and Eric O'Keefe pitch better...
Fred Barnes has the message right in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine - check out the details at http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/nullifying-obamacare_524862.html.
Kirk is still with the Democrats except on fiscal...
Unreliably coservative as ever, Sen. Mark Kirk defied moderate John McCain and military leaders to support new gay rights. Interesting that he kept quiet till the last minute in the lame duck session - no chance to listen to his constituents on this one! The vote to abolish Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell legislation is about sexual practices, by the way, not civil rights.
1,600 years of history on the small screen: watch...
If you still need a Christmas gift to save and return to watch a second time, pick up a copy of Monarchy with David Starkey: The Complette Series on DVD - and it’s available on Netflix on demand as well.
This 16-hour British T.V. mini-series covers 1,500 years of British history, beginning with the the creation of Anglo-Saxon culture and tradition, with its eventual melding into Norman...
