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“Demographics Is Destiny”? Well…

Every time I write about my positive experiences attending black L.A. public schools in the early 1980s, I get pushback. Sometimes gentle pushback from friends, sometimes angry pushback from furious, red-faced men. To stitch together two themes I’ve touched upon recently—the use of “demographics is destiny” as a crutch, and the deadly fatalism ...


Bill O'Reilly

Ten Things I Hate About the Right

The left gets a serious going-over on this site. Not that they don’t deserve it. If you come screaming into the room with an aluminum water bottle on your backpack and start ridiculing everyone for being ignorant, people are going to ...

Another Failed “€œConservative Success Story”€

According to Joel Klein's March 21 Newsweek column, "€œconservatives"€ went ballistic at their annual CPAC meeting in Washington because Obama had dared to question the holy doctrine of "€œAmerican exceptionalism."€ Supposedly ...

Babes in GOP-land

Last week, while CPAC was winding down its annual conference, one of its stellar speakers, Jonathan Krohn, was honored with an interview on FOX news. This much-touted interviewee, who is now being compared to Joe the Plumber, is only 14 ...

Rush’s Style Over Substance

Conservatism is people! That conservatives have already soured on Obama and his big spending agenda is understandable, but in flocking to cheer a very charismatic, yet non-specific and vague political figure in Rush Limbaugh, CPAC 2009 ...

The End of an Error

Under Bush, the conservative movement became what it is - a mere tool of the Republican Party. In the past, there were many on the Right who wrote books, promoted philosophies and endorsed policies they hoped might eventually become ...

New Year’s Revolution

I have never liked New Year's Eve. Americans might have voted for "€œchange"€ recently, but I"€™ve rarely desired it, always finding the same-old, same-old to be as bright or brighter than any new horizons. As a child on New ...

In Praise of McCarthyism

I"€™ve avoided reading, let alone commenting on, the various post-election analyses of "€œwhere is conservatism headed?"€ or "€œwhat went wrong?"€ symposiums, because in my old age I"€™m becoming more intolerant of people ...

Let the Purges Begin!

The election of Illinois senator Barack Obama (D) to the presidency confirms a simple truth: when the economy goes into a recession during the last two years of a presidential term, the party in the White House is replaced. That’s ...

Causes for Hope

As Tom Piatak discusses over at Chronicles, David Frum hastened to the defense of his fellow-neocon Anne Applebaum, the historian of the Soviet gulags and the current wife of the current Polish foreign minister. It seems that NR dared ...


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