As a Jewish person with a fair degree of historical literacy about my faith, I am fully aware of the historical resonance of the term “blood libel”. And I’m fully comfortable with Sarah Palin using it in this circumstance in which, like the Jews of the original blood libel, conservatives, Tea Party supporters, and Palin herself have been recklessly smeared by the liberal media and | Read More »
I got a little nervous after reading a couple of recent polls (one by a Democratic firm PPP) that showed a dead heat in CO-Sen– but I felt a lot better after looking at the just released actual vote totals. About 27% of the 2006 vote total has already been counted in 2010 (more than 440,000 votes.) Of those votes 41.7% were Republicans and 36.0% | Read More »
“A year before the National Reviewwas founded, I spent an evening with Whittaker Chambers, and he asked me, half provocatively, half seriously, what exactly my prospective journal would seek to save. I trotted out a few platitudes, of the sort one might expect from a twenty-eight year fogy, about the virtues of a free society. He wrestled with me by obtruding the dark historicism for | Read More »
Are you, or are you not, going to support the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alaska? We know that you are already calling on your buddies at the NRSC to help with the vote count. The least we could expect at the end of that process is that you are going to honor the result. You are saying now that it’s “too premature” | Read More »
The post of the excellent and much-recommended Diary “Nathan Hale– How much do you love liberty?” caused me to reflect on a few things. Hale’s bronze statue sits in front of Connecticut Hall at Yale University where he lived as student before graduating in 1773. The top givers to Yale are honored as “Nathan Hale Associates”. I saw Hale’s statue this weekend when I was | Read More »
Sarah Palin gets it. There’s a reason why the left-wing press is out to flay Rand Paul (a story that, started, not so-coincidentally, on government-sponsored NPR). It’s because the Tea Party movement that both Palin and Paul represent is a threat to their power. It’s because his views that people should have a right to determine how they use their own property is a threat | Read More »
After reading ColdWarrior’s excellent diary from several days back about our grassroots victory in Utah and a spectacularly irritating and disingenuous op-ed from the Salt Lake Tribune decrying the same. I started thinking about some of the broader issues about our victory Utah and what we can do to build on it elsewhere. It is no accident that we have had two major grassroots victories | Read More »
There’s a meme that keeps floating around the news stories about the demise of Bob Bennett’s Senate career. According to the litany, he was rejected because he was an incumbent, and because he voted for TARP, and bailouts. I’m not from Utah, so I’ll tread a bit carefully here, but from my perspective as a Mike Lee donor, that isn’t why Bob Bennett had to | Read More »
The recent brutal murders of Chelsea King (and Amber Dubois) by a convicted sex offender led to a remarkable scene in a California court on Friday. King’s anguished father declined to pursue the death penalty against the defendant, despite the strong evidence for conviction, not because of moral opposition to capital punishment, but because he realized that in California, Democrat activist judges and their allies | Read More »
Is not how many followers he has, but how many leaders he can create. That’s why Jim DeMint is the best Republican in Congress right now. It’s not because he is great on the issues– though he is– it’s because he realizes that what the Republican party most desperately needs is real leaders– not the same old establishment hacks. And from Florida to Colorado, he | Read More »
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