On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian agenda.” For those who may have forgotten, “national greatness” was a ...
Rupert Murdoch’s New York bullhorn, also known as the New York Post, has recently been jubilating each time a Republican in the state legislature comes over to the side of gay marriage. According to the Post, the legalization and celebration of gay marriage is only another step on the road to ...
A recent syndicated column by Michelle Malkin indicates what happens to interesting conservative commentators when they sign on as GOP flacks: They become predictable Republican mouthpieces and attack dogs against the Dems. For years I read Michelle with delight as she railed against weak-kneed ...
Jim Goad, in his comments about the "Fear of an Erudite White," says just about everything I could have said about Jared Taylor and his new book, which I"m still reading with increasing admiration for its author. I agree that one can"t praise Jared sufficiently for his Southern ...
Although I"ve spent considerable time and energy analyzing the tics of the American conservative movement's neoconservative master class, I have failed to call attention to their anti-monarchism. This trait surfaced most recently in a column by one of the New York Post's wannabe conservatives ...
In what may be described as the Dell comic-book version of "the Civil War's true beginning," Allen C. Guelzo, seated as Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College (I"ll bet my hat that the neocons are paying for this oddly named chair), explains in the New York ...
During the last five years I"ve written provocative fortnightly columns for the Lancaster newspapers, and I periodically receive letters from an outraged older woman (or so my wife has guessed from her handwriting and historical references) who considers me to be a moral leper. From this ...
According to Joel Klein's March 21 Newsweek column, "conservatives" went ballistic at their annual CPAC meeting in Washington because Obama had dared to question the holy doctrine of "American exceptionalism." Supposedly Obama committed blasphemy when he observed that the British in ...
Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "racial vandalism" occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper has devoted considerable front-page coverage to this "vandalism," quoting certain students who demand that the ...
In the last few days I"ve run across two authoritative statements by neocon journalists which provide a new American "Freedom Doctrine for Arab democracy." One statement is by Pod the Younger in the New York Post summoning Americans back to the Truman Administration's pro-democracy ...
