Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
He's at it again, and it's so bad that Newsweek takes exception to it: But of course the basic argument is exactly the same. It's vulgar economic determinism: When people are afraid for their economic livelihood they do foolish things, like clinging to their guns and God or, in this case, voting in opposition to …
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In this case, the two candidates for FL-22 House district debated at Bethesda: A standing-room-only crowd gathered Monday to watch a debate between Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Klein and Allen West, his Republican challenger in the Nov. 2 election. West sought to tie Klein to President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying Klein voted …
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For Americans who are unfamiliar with this British drama, Katharine Birbalsingh is the British deputy headteacher of an Anglican school in London who "outed" herself as a conservative and spoke passionately about the shortcomings of the educational system in the UK (many of which are shared here, as Michelle Rhee has found out) at a …
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...that is, either her Republican opponent or her constituents: Hopefully Mr. Dennis--her opponent--won't experience what Cindy Sheehan did in 2008, i.e., get his headquarters bombed. But Halloween is coming...
That's what Barack Obama says: http://www.twitvid.com/player/UDZYB Most conservatives don't either. Neither do I. Listeners to Rush Limbaugh will note that it's "Meet the Depressed." Especially these days, the MSM in general is very depressed.
One of the urgent questions that keeps coming up in the war with Islamic careerists is this: what is the similarity of the situation that lead up to the start of World War II? Are our leaders appeasers in the tradition of Neville Chamberlain, letting budding Hitlers like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have victory after victory until …
Things are getting desperate now: “You don’t know,” he said here. “It could be the oil industry, it could be the insurance industry, it could even be foreign-owned corporations. You don’t know because they don’t have to disclose. Now that’s not just a threat to Democrats, that’s a threat to our democracy.” Still, in saying …
That's part of Walter Russell Mead's opening line in his piece as to why they don't: Lost in the chatter about the potential GOP tsunami in the midterm elections is one simple fact: if American politics still operated on the rules of the twentieth century, the Democrats would own this political cycle. The issues that …
This is really "hope and change": Once-despondent Democrats now believe that they may be able to avert a total midterm wipeout, as several important states now appear to be trending in their direction or growing more competitive. The bad news: In a sign of how hostile the election environment remains for the party, the cautious …
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I must weigh in on Jacob Weisberg's rather strange piece on Republicans using elitist as a pejorative term: Palin's definition says elitists are those who think they're better than other people—a category in which by Election Day, on the evidence of her autobiography, included many of the people working for her own campaign. Palin is …
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