One of the consistent tactics of the post-modern transnational utopian left is to co-opt the national inheritance to undermine that inheritance. On this 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, Jennifer Lynch,...
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November 08, 2008, 7:00 a.m. The Death of the American Idea An electorate living high off the entitlement hog. By Mark Steyn ‘Give me liberty or give me death!” “Live free or die!” What's that? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just...
Mark Steyn makes a compelling argument that if the American Idea is not dead then it is in critical condition. Read the article here. I found these observations disturbing: In its assumptions about the size of the state and the...
As we skirt Hurricane Paloma, the skies are mostly dark and dramatically gloomy, though the seas are calm with little white-capping going on. The sun pops out now and again, but we’re mostly sailing under a rapidly scudding...
Now that the election’s over, we’re getting to see the most petty and shameful behavior from the hacks who helped run John McCain’s campaign into the side of a mountain. Several pretty high-ranking staffers, too cowardly to put...
A Journey Into The Mind Of Vladimir Putin.... On Tuesday night, as we all discussed the consequences of what had just happened, your humble correspondent staked out what seemed to be a minority position - that is, that the next...
Day 1 (Embarkation) Never having done this before (at least not on a ship not painted Haze Grey) it has all been interesting. I was especially fascinated, as a former operations andlogistics planner, to observe how efficiently...
I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they’ll be routed in two or four years’ time. The President-elect’s so-called “tax cut” will absolve...
1. She has been a great unifier. Commenters and bloggers from right to left, who normally spit and snarl at each other, have been as one in saying how awful she is, how scarey that a Bible literalist and ignoramus with the...