A Backlash Against Barack?

As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make?   This center-right country ...

Can McCain Still Win?

Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory. They had erased the eight-point lead Barack ...

Cosmetologist at a Hog Farm

Okay, I tried to watch it. Tried really, really hard. I made a phone date with my long-distance love to view the debate “together.” I arranged my schedule around it. I ...

Will McCain Make a Mission to MARs?

John McCain may have just let slip his last best chance to be president of the United States. When he flew back to Washington to address the banking crisis, McCain could have ...

Hell Hath No Fury

Conservative radio talk-show host, Chris Plante, a mainstay of 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C., recently interviewed Senator John S. McCain.  During the course of their ...

Deconstructing the Debate

I was going to live-blog the debate, but it was so boring that I fell asleep before I could post it on Takimag. In any case, this was supposedly a debate about foreign policy, but ...

A Debate About Nothing

Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too... ~Barack Obama This statement, better than anything else said, sums up Barack Obama's performance at the ...

Libertarianism Shrugged

My friend Dave Weigel has a revealing post at Reason's "€œHit & Run"€ blog about Ron Paul's long-overdue endorsement of Chuck Baldwin. Weigel refers the scornful ...

GOP Turkeys

Are GOP partisans as dumb as they seem? My answer to this query is "€œat least as dumb as turkeys, the mouths of which have to be shut when it rains, lest they swallow too much ...

Fashion Before Function

With the two major presidential candidates being both similar and wrong on virtually every issue, as they seem to be every four years, this election is more like the cola wars of ...

The Neocons”€™ Palin Project

Will the neocons who tutored George W. Bush in the ideology he pursued to the ruin of his presidency do the same for Sarah Palin?          ...

Last Chance for Life

Near the end of a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pa., a woman arose to offer a passionate plea to Barack Obama to “stop these abortions.” Obama’s response ...

The Palin Illusion

Having been listening to happy talk for more than a week about the "€œPalin factor,"€ courtesy of all my local friends and the commentaries of Pat Buchanan, and having felt ...

One of Us vs. One of Them

One wonders: What did Sarah Palin ever do to inspire the rage and bile that exploded on her selection by John McCain? What is there either in this woman’s record or resume ...

Jonny’s Got a New Girl

The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge. McCain’s ...

The Palin Opportunity

That Bill Kristol, neocon bellwether and house intellectual of the McCain-led GOP, would have nice things to say about Sarah Palin, would even have floated her selection as VP two ...


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