The Sellouts vs. the True Believers
Conor Friedersdorf again makes the point that, although conservatives outside of Washington are largely correct that their inside-the-Beltway brethren can be divided into hackish, careerist sellouts and people who write and say what they actually believe, their conception of which is which is almost exactly reversed--that is, the moderate heretics and iconoclasts tend to fall into the latter category, and the down-the-line partisan warriors into the former. READ MORE >>
(The New) Civics 101
It's become so common in media coverage that I should probably be over it by now, but I found this passage, in a WaPo article on health care reform over the weekend, utterly infuriating: READ MORE >>
The Mini-Review: 'Extract'
On Jim Traficant's Hair, and Character
Dead Letter
It is easy to disagree about the death penalty in the abstract, but anyone who doesn't harbor serious reservations about its application--the racial disparities, the often dubious safeguards, the eleventh-hour Death Row exonerees--isn't paying adequate attention. READ MORE >>
Meeting Again, Again
Colleague--and Kubrick enthusiast--Henry Riggs passes along the news that Dame Vera Lynn, a.k.a. "The Forces' Sweetheart," has just charted in the UK at the record age of 92 with her her album We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. READ MORE >>
The Movie Review: 'Inglourious Basterds'
The Mouse that Keeps Roaring
When last we checked in with Redstate.com's Erick Erickson, he was loudly threatening to make reported Palin naysayers from the McCain campaign--Steve Schmidt, Nicolle Wallace, Mark McKinnon--"political lepers" by mobilizing his readers to work against any candidate foolish enough to hire them in the future. READ MORE >>
Lies, and the Lying Liars, etc.
Michael Goldfarb is admirably upfront about the rank dishonesty of his own party, even if he is rooting for more of it: READ MORE >>
National Review Vs. Andy Mccarthy, Ctd.
It's not exactly William F. Buckley taking on the Birchers, but the clearer heads over at National Review have been making tentative, intermittent efforts to disassociate conservatism from its craziest adherents. The problem, of course, is that some of those adherents work for National Review. READ MORE >>
