Category: Cool Columnists and Wicked Writers
Do Conservatives Hate Journalism? No, But We Do Hate Journalists, and Rightly So.
You can probably count the times I’ve disagreed with Stacy McCain on the fingers of one hand and still have a couple fingers left to fork the Evil Eye at me. He and I are sympatico in most everything important (excepting, perhaps, on the matter of college football) but not on this post. Stacy posits [...]
Happy Bloggy Birthday, Andrew!
This past Friday, my friend Andrew Malcolm celebrated his blog’s third anniversary. Top of the Ticket is a rara avis in the blogging world. It manages to read and behave like a blog even though it is backed by a major media entity and staffed with veteran journalists. It links, gives love to other bloggers, [...]
Coming Soon: An Actual Book Review!
Yesterday, I received a review copy of Zev Chafets’ Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One from the kind folks at Sentinel Books. I haven’t had a lot of time to really dig into it, but I find it’s not a book that needs a lot of deep pondering. The story of how Rush Limbaugh made [...]
What Are Conservatives Conserving?
Once in a while, we conservatives will get asked, “Okay, Mr. Smarty Conservative…what, exactly, is it that you’re trying to conserve?” It’s a fair question. Conservatives too often fall back on the hackneyed slogans (Low taxes! Individual liberty! Free Markets!) without explaining why those things are important. In truth, low taxes and the rest are [...]
The Heart of Darkness Came to Nevada, And So Did the Croc Hunters
Sarah Palin came to Nevada and Stacy McCain was there to document the angry mobs full of angry spitting racists whom she led in various anti-gay chants against Manly-Man Barney Frank. To read some of the commentary, you’d think the authors were sailing down a gloomy river in search of an ivory trader named Kurtz [...]
The Delivery Presents: Is Anyone Else Ready for a Drink Yet?
Episode 30 of The Delivery is mixed and ready for a perfect pour into your MP3 player of choice. Stephen Green has returned and, this week, we finally talk about liquor. I honestly don’t know why it took me so long. Steve is one of my favorite people in the whole world. He is a [...]
Got an Oversized Beast Problem? Well, Starve It!
John Hawkins has an interesting idea for effectively repealing Obamacare without actually repealing the bill itself. What does it take to fund all those government jobs, agencies, panels, & commissions? Tax dollars. Now, who controls the purse strings? Congress. How many votes do we need via reconciliation to make budget changes? 51. So, can we [...]
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