If you think this is bad, wait until the polls get close again.
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I dug up another quote by Sarah Palin and I thought readers should consider just how deeply offensive appeals to God during war time are. [...] Sarah Palin is a formidable political force, but during her speech she made mistakes that, if not corrected, will limit her appeal and her campaign's ability to win. [...] William F. Buckley, Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith agreed on virtually nothing in the public sphere. Whereas Buckley celebrated the free market and the anti-collectivist views of Hayek and Nock, Galbraith was an unrelenting critic of an economic system that left, in his view, millions of Americans vulnerable to capricious circumstances. [...] In Noam Chomsky's world, there is a pro-American capitalist exploiter behind every tree. He is the ultimate ideologue, devoted to explaining history, or at least American history and foreign policy, through a single prism. For Chomsky, to even engage in a discussion about Vietnam was to lose one’s humanity. But that didn't prevent him from going on William [...] The cultural impact of the 1960s was sobering: divorce, pornography, drug use, single-parent families, infidelities, unwed mothers and teen-aged pregnancies all exploded, contributing to enclaves of dysfunctional and destructive behavior that constituted a national disaster. Norman Mailer, for all his (occasional) claims of being a social conservative, played a prominent role in ushering in this [...] Michael Harrington helped ignite The Great Society and all the benefits and problems that were associated with that effort, and made the elimination of poverty a staple of Democratic politics. Natually he clashed with William F. Buckley, Jr., who viewed Johnson’s war on poverty as an exercise in futility. [...] Forty years ago, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr. gave the nation one of the most infamous moments of incivility in television history. Buckley got over it; Gore Vidal never did. [...] Like William F. Buckley, Jr., Dwight Macdonald attended Yale and the men shared a common concern regarding the state of popular culture and the dumbing down of American education and letters. But Macdonald considered National Review glib, non-traditional and anti-intellectual, and he clashed with Buckley over the Vietnam War and the role of civil disobedience. [...] In the 1960s and 70s, William F. Buckley, Jr. squared off against James Baldwin and his view of American society as hopelesly irredeemable. According to Buckley, the idea of "Freedom Now" was an invitation to frustration, and true empowerment could not be achieved through political gestures or symbolism alone. [...] William F. Buckley, Jr. not only appeared on the top liberal and political talk shows of his time with devastating wit and effectiveness, he debated the top liberal and leftist minds of our time and with remarkable skill helped reshape the issues of his time. [...] Reflections. [...] Those who pile remorseless fact on remorseless fact in the name of rational science usually wind up constructing another idol, only one that is lifeless; that is their right and choice, but why should it surprise them that the rest of us refuse to bow down and worship with them? [...] Conservatism is a big enough tent to include many differing views on specific issues, but there are overriding principles that bind conservatism as a political force. [...] Elections are about issues and about serious solutions to the problems our nation confronts, but the networks have focused almost exclusively on speculating about who is up, who is down, who is out, who is in. [...] Why settle, when we have a full-fledged, tough and experienced conservative to turn to? [...] According to Paul Krugman, Republicans win elections only because of their exploitation of southern bigotry, evangelical mobilization, media influence, and exploitation of security issues. A review of The Conscience of a Liberal. [...] In his collection of correspondence from his Notes and Asides column, William F. Buckley, Jr. reminds us that one can be sharp and relevant without being boorish. A review of Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription. [...] A leader must touch the heart of the nation and a great leader never fails to do so. [...] Another lion says good night: Norman Mailer, RIP. [...] Many believe that the newspaper is going the way of the horse and buggy. [...] The tragedy of Iraq is that it has not been handled with the kind of care that Mark Daily and tens of thousands of other precious souls who have lost their lives deserved. [...] Strictly Right adds texture to the Buckley/National Review story, which is, after all, the story of modern conservatism. [...] Many on the Right seem more interested in punishing desperate people who have fled here looking for work than in fixing the system. [...] Listening to Douglas Brinkley record his surprise about how thoughtful and engaged Reagan was confirmed our conviction that liberals are trapped in their own prejudices more than the conservatives they so often malign. [...] |
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