Do Tea Party Conservatives Hate Capitalism?

    Over at National Review, Jay Nordlinger is fuming and indignant. By William F. Buckley standards, his article Conservatives vs. Capitalism nearly requires a set of html rant tags. And on Jay’s behalf, I don’t necessarily believe anger is automatically bad. Nordlinger considers himself to be a Conservative. He believes strongly in free enterprise. He sees his favored candidate, Mitt Romney, being lambasted for aggressively participating | Read More »

    The Tea Party’s Red Harvest

    “Plans are all right sometimes … And sometimes just stirring things up is all right – if you’re tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you’ll see what you want when it comes to the top.” – Dashiell Hammett from Red Harvest (HT: Spengler) Like the town nicknamed “Poisonville” in the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, corruption had become the official indoor | Read More »

    The Tea Party (AKA: America’s Peaceful Reset Button)

    “How can you make a revolution without executions?” (HT: Vladimir Lenin) Have you ever felt frustrated and believed that the system just no longer worked? It’s not something that will just get fixed with a tune-up or an oil change. The time has come to tow the darned thing to the junk yard and start over anew. The faith that we can just bring in | Read More »

    The Tea Party – Level III Conservatism. (Is Glenn Beck Smarter Than He Acts on TV?)

    My initial take on Glenn Beck has been mixed. He deserves credit for identifying that America’s elite has decayed into a sarcoma within the body of our glorious republic. Not only that, he has the guts to take them on. Somebody had to step up in America. The Rick Santellis, the Glenn Becks; they exist because they would eventually have to. I’ve felt these people | Read More »

    The Mote and The Beam

    And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? (HT: Matthew 7:3) As is well known, the NAACP has declared the Tea Party Movement to be officially, and certifiably RACIST™. They issued this declaration at their national convention in Kansas City, MO. NAACP President ben Jealous issued the following statement to | Read More »