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Archive for February, 2010
February 18th, 2010
Category: Right-wing terrorism, Watching Conservatives
Now that a right-wing suicide terrorist has flown a plane into an IRS office, will he make a surprise appearance at the CPAC convention?
February 18th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Sam Quinones, in a well-reported series in the LA Times, sounds the alarm about a new style of heroin dealing.
February 18th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
“Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess.”
February 18th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
That’s Our Sarah. I’d missed that gem when she said it to Chris Wallace (context after the jump), but Leon Wieseltier picked it up and ran with it in a glorious rant that deserves to be read in full (even by Louis Auchincloss fans, who will share my dismay at the anecdote Wieseltier recounts). Here’s [...]
February 17th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives, Wayward press
Marc Thiessen’s gaining of a Washington Post column demonstrates how Movement Conservatism has destroyed real conservatism.
February 17th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Time for some hearings about how an Iranian agent acquired so much political sponsorship in the United States?
February 16th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Why isn’t the Right celebrating the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar?
February 15th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Anthem (the name adopted by California Blue Cross/Blue Shield when it converted from a non-profit to a for-profit) just raised individual and small-business rates in California by up to 34%. But lest you think that this is a mere case of executives gouging captive customers so they can pay themselves outrageous bonuses, Anthem and its [...]