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Palin and Her Critics

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Sorry for the really long break-travel and the election have kept me busy in the Heartland. But have you noticed Governor Palin’s critics? No, not the Daily Kos crowd or even the ostensibly more reasoned The New Republic.        
David Brooks and Mike Murphy dismissed Governor Palin first. There was Christopher […]

Bobby Jindal for RNC Keynote Speaker

Monday, August 11th, 2008

David Bass at The American Spectator  makes the case. Hmm… charming young conservative governor who is the son of Indian immigrants? You Dems can have Barack Obama-we want Bobby Jindal for keynote speaker!

The Dark Knight: a conservative movie

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Brian Fitzpatrick over at Human Events calls The Dark Knight “pornography of violence.”Batman has also been compared to George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani. You can decide on the latter, but the former claim is balderdash.  Batman tries to save the innocent in the film and is faced into grave moral choices. As for the […]

RedState delivers Reagan-Obama smackdown

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Dan McLaughlin spells out why Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan. This leads to a couple of questions.
1. Why would the Obama folks want their man to be compared to the Gipper if Reagan wasn’t a great president(remember, the Left went crazy when Obama said nice things about Ronald Reagan)?
2. Why would you compare John […]

Robert Novak retires

Monday, August 4th, 2008

First William F. Buckley Jr. Then Tim Russert. Tony Snow lost his courageous battle with cancer. Now this. Only the Lord knows why 2008 is going this way.

Obama born in a manger…

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

The Weekly Standard links to the Gerard Baker column. about the Chosen One from Illinois. The stuff about Al Gore is hilarious.
Windstone, I would like to add this to your post.
- Sage

Vice President John Hoeven?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

The North Dakota governor is another one to watch as a long-shot veep pick. The WSJ says Governor Hoeven brings executive and economic experience to the job. Considering polls are narrowing in Montana and North Dakota, not to mention it could help in western Minnesota. Ya never know.

Tony Snow 1955-2008

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

We have lost a giant of American politics and a giant in the conservative world. His contributions as an editorial writer, speechwriter for George H.W. Bush, talk show host, Fox News Sunday host, and White House Press Secretary. His words in two columns put it best:
 The party that best praises limited government and traditional virtues will win […]

Jesse Helms 1921-2008

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

There were few mistakes from Jesse Helms-better on race than critics would admit but not strong enough in supporting racial integration pre-1970(James Meredith and Harvey Gantt are example he cited at the time and gets zero credit for), perhaps better support for free trade, and he should have been a strong supporter of  the INF […]

Bye-Bye Red Ken and Hello Boris

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

It’s official-Red Ken is gone. Boris Johnson, Conservative MP, is the new mayor-elect of London. You read that right-A CONSERVATIVE  is the new mayor of one of the largest cities in the world. The London Times features this tidbit:
“The 1990s were a decade of brilliance for Boris, capped in 1999 with the editorship ofThe Specator.He […]

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