Journolist: Listening So You Don't Have To!

July 25, 2010 By

Git along little dawgies Over at RCP Jay Cost is asking what’s so bad about journolisters? It’s a good piece, and I urge you to read it, but here’s what I think: Journolisters discourage listening among their readers and the general public, and if people are not listening, they are not thinking, either; they’re just [...]

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RFK, MLK, Oakland, Race & Us

July 11, 2010 By

RKF, MLK Landmark for Peace Memorial A few days ago I linked to a piece by J. Peter Nixon and his thoughts and actions in anticipation of a trial verdict toward which a few hundred agitators had been encouraging civil unrest. Having remained in Oakland that night, choosing to pray at a Cathedral rather than [...]

Filed Under: Crisis & Opportunity, Crooks and Liars, Faith Perspective, Race in America, Why can't weeee be ...

Buyer's Remorse Among the Seniors

June 23, 2010 By

Bookworm has a very good piece up, wherein she wonders at how our president can run the gamut of emotional and intellecutal circuits, from A, as is Apathy, to umm…A, as in Anger. Health care bill: Apathetic. (Yeah, it passed and, yeah, he made the talk show circuits, but he was a follower, not a [...]

Filed Under: America, Barack Obama, Crooks and Liars

The Privileged Call for Limited Dictatorships

May 24, 2010 By

When I read last week that Woody Allen likes the idea of letting President Obama be a dictator for a “few years” I was repelled; but then I’ve found Allen to be a repellent individual for decades–since Manhattan, at least–so I just shrugged it off as the foghorn bleat of an over-privileged mediocrity looking for [...]

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Snapshot of America, May 2010 – UPDATED

May 22, 2010 By

Strange days, my friends Earlier this month, a voting-rights attorney from the Department of Justice resigned because, well, because the Justice Department refused to prosecute a clear case of voter intimidation. Intimidation, it seems, is currently in vogue, in the Obama government. Making Politics Personal/Photo Nina Easton Just about a year after President Obama told [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, ACORN, Bill Whittle, Bloodless Coup, Communion of Saints, Constitutional Stuff, Crisis & Opportunity, Crooks and Liars, Culture of Life/Death, Culture of Treason?, Obama Bad?, Socialism doesn't work

Sarah Palin is Alive! – UPDATED

May 13, 2010 By

Longtime readers know that, while there is much that I admire about Sarah Palin, I am still on the fence about any notion that she should run for president. My reservations stem in part from some of Palin’s own moves, but it may be her base that really sours me on her; not even mild [...]

Filed Under: American Genius, Barack Obama, Chesterton, Chris Christie, Crooks and Liars, Free Speech?, King is a Fink, Sarah Palin, The Fourth Estate

The Fundamental(ist) Imbalance

May 6, 2010 By

Nowadays, the truth of peace continues to be dramatically compromised and rejected by terrorism, whose criminal threats and attacks leave the world in a state of fear and insecurity. These are often the fruit of a tragic and disturbing nihilism. Looked at closely, nihilism and fundamentalism share an erroneous relationship to truth: the nihilist denies [...]

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