David Frum and the Limits to Deviancy
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 11th at 02:12 PM |
NewsReal Blog has done an investigative piece into one of its former writers. The writer, Alex Knepper, now writes for David Frum. Alex Knepper is a 20 year old adult who wrote longingly of CHILF’s. You, like I, probably have no idea what that is. If you know what a MILF is (NSFW, but you can google it), substitute the “mother” for “child”. What makes | Read More »
Boo-Freakin’-Hoo
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 1st at 08:43 AM |
This is perhaps the silliest thing to come across the internets since the badger song. Name the most important legislation enacted in the 30 years between 1950 and 1980. Overwhelming isn’t it? Civil rights. Voting rights. Interstate highways. Medicare. Medicaid. The deregulation of the airlines, natural gas, trucking, rail and oil. The immigration act of 1965. Clean Air, Clean Water, and the Endangered Species Acts. | Read More »
Mourning the Jackalope
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 2nd at 09:37 PM |
30 years ago in Macomb County, Michigan, white blue collar workers voted en masse for Ronald Reagan. Pollster Stan Greenberg termed these people “Reagan Democrats.” While I am loathed to cite Wikipedia on matters political, the entry factually notes that “Researchers have not tracked what political path these voters took after the end of the Reagan and the elder Bush administrations.” Nonetheless, 30 years after | Read More »
Hating on Sarah Palin
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 23rd at 04:05 PM |
According to the New Majority, a left wing website designed to cast itself as the new conservative voice, Sarah Palin’s wardrobe is stashed at the RNC in the basement in trash bags and was not given to charity. The story cites “sources,” but does not mention that the author is probably the source, considering she worked at the RNC. More so, the story is flat | Read More »
“Screw the Social Conservatives”
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 4th at 09:57 AM |
This is your must read of the day. The impulse to blame social conservatives arises nearly every time Republicans fail. They were blamed for the elder Bush’s 1992 defeat, as though he would have won if only Pat Robertson had not spoken at the Republican convention. They were blamed for losses in the House in 1998. And now they are being blamed for McCain’s rout. | Read More »