Month: May 2010

No Time for Friendly Talk

Setting aside how our government would work in an ideal world, the reason that conciliatory language and efforts at bipartisanship are dangerous in our current political climate is that it creates the unwarranted assumption that...

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Immigration, or How to Piss Off Your Base

Immigration is an anomalous issue. The “left” position is really right, and the “right” position is really left. Both parties publicly espouse positions contrary to many of their most important political...

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IN-Sen: Not Much to Choose From

Returning to my concern about the direction of the Republican Party, Indiana will select their GOP nominee to challenge for Evan Bayh’s seat tomorrow. Let’s see if you can match the man to his biography. 1) John...

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Deepwater: Conservative & Corp. Failure

The only things more astounding than conservatives’ record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their...

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