Reinventing Conservatism One Tweet at a Time
| Law & Disorder | Added: January 03, 2009
Conservatism has much bigger problems right now than a paucity of Twitter skills.
The top 50 most egregious items in the stimulus bill. It’s not pretty.
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Why is Caroline Kennedy getting a certain treatment from the media?
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His first bit of controversy, and what is The Chosen One’s first response?
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech to the Federalist Society tonight. It appears to have been a stroke. Prayers.
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Some incredible photos from the newly-central front in the War on Terror.
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What we’ve seen in the smears against Sarah Palin go beyond the normal post-election squabbling.
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Thank you to our heroes. It’s you who make this grand experiment called America possible.
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Conservatism has much bigger problems right now than a paucity of Twitter skills.
The best advisers can’t take momentous decisions out of the president’s hands.
Editors say that the Obama presidency will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences.
The diplomacy he favors is exactly what Condi Rice has been pursuing for years.
The President-elect has much more important priorities than a radical change of direction on the Middle East.
To understand the president-elect, friends and relatives say, one must understand Hawaii.
Fresh off my triumph over Kwanzaa, I thought I’d mention a couple of other facts that some of us are forced to keep repeating because liberals refuse to learn.
In honor of the less lofty moments, the nutty or flat-out bizarre happenings in the political arena, Politico offers its 10 weirdest moments.
Whoever called politics “the art of the possible” must have had a strange idea of what is possible or a strange idea of politics, where the impossible is one of the biggest vote-getters.
The GOP must bolster its argument for spending discipline with a loud case for tax cuts.
Obama should look here to see what high taxes do.
How the Democrats ‘won’ the Washington governor’s mansion in 2004.
Jesters don’t pick up the race card in a nationally televised news conference and slam it into the face of every Democrat in the U.S. Senate, a palm heel strike to the tip of the nose, leaving all of them watery-eyed, their lips stinging.
I think she’s qualified. After all, what does a senator do?
Still more reasons to boot the huckster of Saddleback from the inauguration.
Think of his health plan as a federal HMO.
President-elect Obama is letting his outline for economic recovery dribble out into the media ever so slowly. But from what we’ve seen, the plan seems less like stimulus and more like redistribution.
Be careful what you wish for, even if you are living a fairy tale.
Obama’s blind spot.
I look forward to Barack Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.
Drool cup to the newsroom, stat.
Every election cycle has its share of upset winners, the candidates who pulled off long-shot victories that surprised the pundits, the political professionals and sometimes even themselves.
During the campaign, Democrats pledged radical change. But recession has forced them to rein in their agenda, from soaking the rich to nationalizing health care. How the worm turns.
As the New Year looms, most of us are taking stock of the past 12 months in an effort to make those ahead a bit better.
Some domestic policy achievements to be proud of.
Did Saddam’s daughter, who looted millions from Iraq, secretly fund both the shoe thrower and the bungled coup attempt?
A new military plan for troop withdrawals from Iraq that was described in broad terms this week to President-elect Barack Obama falls short of the 16-month timetable Mr. Obama outlined during his election campaign.
Stateside, many in the Bush-hating news media seemed almost giddy—no doubt considering the shoe throwing a vindication of their own hostility to the war.
Up to 35 officials in the Iraqi Ministry, some ranking as high as general, have been arrested in an alleged secret scheme to reinstate Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.
Vice President Dick Cheney offered a sweeping defense Wednesday of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism and its use of aggressive interrogation techniques, declaring “it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation.”
Britain never gave its forces in Iraq the backing they needed. On leaving in May they will have accomplished less than had been promised.
Too few good men and too many bad ones make for a grueling, uphill struggle.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain confirmed Wednesday that British troops will leave Iraq next summer.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for withdrawal from Iraq.
President Bush’s thanks for ousting Saddam Hussein is to have a pair of shoes thrown at him. If Arabs are so ungrateful for our sacrifices in ridding them of tyranny, should we even bother?
Military action may be the only means to keep Tehran from becoming an atomic power, and Israel appears to be the only nation willing to take such action.
Hurling shoes at George Bush is a curious milestone on Iraq’s road to democracy.
“If your men conduct any raids,” I said to Captain Todd Looney at Combat Outpost Ford on the outskirts of Sadr City, Baghdad, “I want to go.”
As the Iraq conflict winds down, the war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started.
A growing feud between Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, and Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, the jailed ex-leader of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad, could weaken support for Al Qaeda.
The President of Afghanistan thanks the British soldiers who are dying for his country.
A man wanted by Interpol for his links to an alleged terrorist organisation has been advising Scotland Yard on countering Muslim extremism.
Could its holy warriors be the most dangerous?
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some U.S. troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a U.S.-Iraq security pact calls for their withdrawal from urban areas by then.
After jumping out of helicopters at daybreak onto jagged, ice-covered rocks and into water at an altitude of 10,000 feet, the 12-man Special Forces team scrambled up the steep mountainside toward its target—an insurgent stronghold in northeast Afghanistan.
Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s experiences in the cauldron of crisis are impressive.
Rock musicians are protesting the use of their music as an interrogation technique on captured jihadists. Tell us where the bomb is, Khalid, or we play “Disco Duck” one more time.
Gates details troop deployments on unannounced trip to the country.
A zero interest rate isn’t the last weapon in the Fed arsenal.
Beginning with Black Friday, so named because it’s supposedly the day on which retailers finally make it into the black for the year, retailers’ sales brochures have been bedecked with Christmas iconography, but…
The paper of record blames the “mortgage bonfire” on President Bush and his “laissez-faire” housing policies. But to get there, the Times completely ignored history prior to 2002.
Entrepreneurship was taken for granted. Now we’re seeing a lot less of it.
The media had its share of missteps this year. Politico has compiled a list of the biggest blunders.
Obviously.
If, as they say, it’s journalists who write history’s first draft, then future texts will be riddled with errors about the origins of the subprime disaster, teaching future leaders the wrong lessons.
Not since the early 1980s has the role of the central bank been so crucial.
Route 66 is looking ever more like a one-way dead-end street to Bailoutistan.
President Bush’s $17.3 billion bailout for the auto industry just kicks the can down the road and does little to solve Detroit’s long-term problems.
In 1870, President Grant signed a law making Christmas Day a federal holiday, a national day of celebration. Congress overwhelmingly voted to make that happen, and Grant understood that this was not a trivial gesture.
With depression now a genuine risk, the U.S. has wisely put practicality ahead of ideology.
What is Washington waiting for? Act now.
Economic upheaval will give the next president free rein over his domestic agenda.
Quantitative easing may not sound exciting, but it is as momentous as the Gettysburg Address or the D-Day landings.
A little perspective for the pessimistic “age of the empty suit.”
Associate director of the FBI during President Nixon’s Watergate scandal, Felt became the most famous anonymous source in U.S. history.
Money benchmarks reached soaring heights and scraping lows in 2008, a year whose convulsions few saw coming.
The only way to get there is job-killing taxes.
How investment in infrastructure will boost the economy.
If there is any silver lining to the increasingly dark storm clouds hovering over our economy, it’s that it creates an opportunity for action on problems that have been ignored for decades.
Why Ford CEO Alan Mulally is a cut above his Big 3 counterparts.
Israeli ground forces began moving across the border into the northern Gaza Strip in an escalation late Saturday night of the weeklong offensive against Hamas.
In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university education.
Is it time for a reevaluation of policy?
Completely at odds with the past protocols of war.
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.
Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah was a disaster. Now, as it fights Hamas in Gaza, Israel seems determined not to repeat the mistakes of two years ago.
I spent today reading accounts of Gaza—NY Times, AP, Reuters, etc. There are no terrorists, just militants. Not much about past rocket attacks on Israel–most everything on the crowded conditions of Gaza.
Hamas are the real war criminals in this conflict.
There is no question—none—that Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza is justified.
To draw an equivalence between Palestinian human bomb attacks and Israel’s operation in Gaza is obscene.
Much of the world’s response is a false moral equivalence that simply encourages the terrorists.
Obama shouldn’t reward dictatorial Kremlin with goodwill overtures.
New Year’s Day marks 50 years of communist rule in Cuba. The Castro oligarchy will trumpet its survival and celebrate. But the reality, up close, is that it’s the longest-running failure in the New World.
If only it were a parable, the endless confrontation between Israel and its enemies would be the case of the hedgehog and the fox. The fox, said the Greek poet Archilochus, knows many things, while the hedgehog knows one big thing.
While condemned as “disproportionate,” Israeli attacks on Hamas in Gaza are the only appropriate response to daily terror. As the U.N. Charter says, when they shoot at you, you can shoot back.
It was only a matter of time before Israel lashed out at Hamas in Gaza.
“The blogosphere and new media are another war zone,” said IDF Foreign Press Branch head Maj. Avital Leibovich. “We have to be relevant there.”
Iran’s nuclear threat, the rise of Hamas and Hezbollah and Israeli Arabs’ growing disaffection with the state offer challenges that Israel’s leaders and public find difficult to counter.
If Hamas gets away with terror once again, the peace process will be over.
Israel’s military operation in Gaza aims to expunge the ghost of its flawed 2006 war in Lebanon and re-establish its deterrence.
Dead Jews aren’t news, but killing terrorists outrages global activists.
Edna Madzongwe, president of the Senate and a powerful member of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, began showing up uninvited at the Etheredges’ farm here last year, at times still dressed up after a day in Parliament. And she made her intentions clear, the Etheredges say: she wanted their farm.
Dear Mr. Change Sir, I am writing to request a very humble portion of the bailout. $2-$5 million will do. Please use our contact form for details.
Something is happening in the Senate race in Minnesota, and it's not pretty. If the race isn't being stolen by the Democrats, why the complete lack of transparency?
Today is a day to remember those that have sacrificed so that we would not have to. It's a day to be humble, and grateful.
The institution that has preserved our liberty and the liberty of millions around the world, that has enabled our modern, comfortable lives, turns 233 years old.
Enjoy the weekend. Come Monday, and the hard work of reconstituting Conservatism begins.
The Right is both cannibalizing itself and remaking itself at the same time. It's ugly, but it's necessary.
Now that the well-deserved congratulations have subsided, it's time to move on. Conservatives need to figure out how to go forward and Obama needs to figure out if he's going to lead from the center or take this country for an ugly left turn. Fingers crossed.
Historic? Monumental? Incredible? Yes, we can all acknowledge a historic moment for America. Congratulations are in order to Barack Obama. As for Conservatives; today, our work begins anew.
Two years of campaigning and we've finally gotten here. You have the information, you have the power, go and exercise the right that brave men and women still fight to preserve.
With but a day to go, we put our hopes in the wisdom of the American electorate.
The polls are tightening, questions are finally being raised about Obama and his "tax plan," and the McCain team is finally on a message. Is it too little too late?
All of a sudden, people are beginning to understand that Barack Obama is a hardcore liberal and, wouldn't ya know it, we get the first poll showing McCain ahead.
As liberals throughout the country are turning giddy at the prospect of an Obama presidency, the polls begin to tighten and, we hope, the American people are coming to their senses.
I'm not sure if I'd rather see McCain win this election because it will save our great country, or because I want to see the smug liberals in the media eat their hearts out. It's a tough call.
Tapes of Obama praising a Palestinian apologist, check. Information coming out that his campaign is doing nothing to prevent donor fraud, check. Polls closing in, check. A week out from election day, all Obama can do is hang on for dear life.
The real Barack Obama is being exposed further day by day. The question remains though, if it's possible to persuade Obama supporters with mere facts.
The more we think about what an Obama Presidency will look like (tax increases, a weakened military, redistribution, thuggish and questionable friends, etc.), the more terrifying that proposition really seems.
It's easy to grow depressed and demoralized when Obama's cheerleaders are all around us, but don't give in, don't give them the satisfaction, this thing is not over.
And it doesn't look pretty, but there's plenty of reason not to despair just yet.
Those conservatives jumping ship to Obama betray a lack of conviction that should embarass them. What's losing one election compared to losing everything you stand for?
All of you stinking liberals in the media are making me sick, I've about enough of your one-sided drivel. You are attempting a giant con on the American people and I hope they call you on it.
If you stop to consider what Joe Biden said, it's a real cause for concern. Not only will Obama be tested, but the Democratic ticket is already bracing us for a weak response!
Joe Biden, the veritable gaffe machine, comes dangerously close to insight in his latest statements about Obama's youth and inexperience inviting attack upon the United States.
And nobody cares.
Only a couple of weeks left, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama. It's no surprise, but will it hurt John McCain?