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Month: September, 2009

Oops

When Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States, it was because voters believed that he was the herald of a new kind of politician, one that thrived on optimism, sensibility, and competence. Oops.

Divided We Stand

This column was originally posted at The D.C. Writeup. Wednesday night’s Very Special Episode of the Barack Obama Show has come and gone, and the most memorable thing about it was an interruption by an unruly member of the audience. The President’s Historic Game-Changing Speech is beginning to look like just another in a long [...]

A Zero-Sum Proposition

Note: This column was originally posted at The D.C. Writeup. One element of the health care debate that hasn’t received much attention is the underlying economic and philosophical misconception behind the Democrats’ proposals. While we’ve heard countless reports about the “necessity” of providing health care coverage to those who can’t afford it (or don’t want [...]

Can We Have Buckley Back?

I strongly recommend giving this article by Patrick Ruffini a read.  It makes a strong case for the rebirth of intellectual conservatism, which has fallen by the wayside in recent years as our greatest thinkers have died and not been replaced.  It’s called “Can We Have Buckley Back?“

How Many Chickens Do We Have Again?

Okay, first the good news: Now before we get into it, let’s take a moment to acknowledge why Republicans’ spirits seem to be rising lately.  It’s hard not to get excited, I’ll admit, when we see Barack Obama’s support collapsing under the weight of his own colossal sense of self-importance.  With elections coming up in [...]

The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989

While vacationing in California this past week, I purchased the recently-released second volume of Steven Hayward’s monumental history of Cold War America, entitled The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989.  The previous volume, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order 1964-1980, is a powerful analysis of the events following Lyndon [...]