Three Cheers for Irving
nytimes.com 9/22/2009 — David Brooks, New York Times

AG's office versus W&M on staff lawyers....
hrblogs.typepad.com 10/14/2009 — There's a game of legal chicken afoot in Williamsburg and Richmond right now between the Attorney General's office and the College of William and Mary. Here's the statement from AG spokesman David Clementson : “Attorneys may and do work for ...

Irving Kristol's Clear Thinking -- By: Jonah Goldberg
article.nationalreview.com 9/23/2009 — ‘ I am so nostalgic.” That’s the phrase I associate most with Irving Kristol, who died last week at the age of 89. What piqued Irving’s nostalgia, at an American Enterprise Institute conference I worked on in 1992, was old-fashioned censorship. In ...

What Would Irving Kristol Think of Sarah Palin?
tnr.com 9/21/2009 — Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and professor of political science at Boston College. read more

You’ll Get a Kick Out of This, Maybe
mahablog.com 9/19/2009 — Via Tbogg — Paul Campos quoting Harry Hopkins : “I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration. ...

It's the Criminality, Stupid! Bill Moyers/William Black On The Wall Street Meltdown
openleft.com 4/4/2009 — Last night on Bill Moyers Journal ( transcript here ), Moyers and his guest, William K. Black, took a look at the Wall Street meltdown through a forbidden lens: that of massive and systemic criminality. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a ...

Pull My Strings and I’ll Go Far
thepoorman.net 9/23/2009 — While the previous posts’ title titilated the imagination of many a reader, stoking an expectation that there would be some form of obituary for Irving Kristol in the post that followed (perhaps a eulogy by Keyboard Kommando?), alas, there ...

Kristol: A Contrarian Take
weeklystandard.com 7/3/2009 —

Kristol on Obama: ‘He is an arrogant man.’
thinkprogress.org 7/26/2009 — On Fox News Sunday, the pundit roundtable continued to harp on President Obama’s initial reaction — and subsequent clarifications — to the arrest of Harvard African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates. On Friday, Obama ...

INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN’T DEAD: WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM A LIBERAL? (PART II)
rightwingnuthouse.com 10/8/2009 — Should conservatives pay any attention to liberals who attempt to critique us? I actually sympathize with those conservatives who reject out of hand any effort by a liberal to tell us what’s wrong with us. Sympathize - but neither do I brush off ...

Some Firms Threatened by Health Care Reform — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 28 days ago
The health care overhaul bill produced by House Democrats would impose an array of new taxes, fees and government mandates on major players in the health industry

Health care issues: Public plan compromises (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 28 days ago
AP - A look at key issues in the health care debate:

HCAN's 'Health Care Mash' — First Read 28 days ago
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe liberal group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) has a new Web video that combines the health-care debate and Halloween. The scary monsters in this movie? In HCAN's eyes, it's the health insurers. ...( read more )

Health care: Some agreement, then there's the public option (McClatchy Newspapers) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 28 days ago
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to begin a historic debate on the future of the nation's health care system, but while most Democrats agree a new public plan is needed, its fate is far from certain.

Grayson: FOX News is stalking me — POLITICO.com: Politics 28 days ago
Rep. Alan Grayson tells supporters Friday he’s being stalked by FOX News.