tnr.com - 10/14/2008
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The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the conservative intelligentsia. But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking directly to the right. Because he paid obeisance to the virtues of stability and continuity, his ...
pajamasmedia.com - 10/13/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
October 12, 2008 I FIND THIS EMAIL FROM
READER DONALD GATELY DEPRESSING. Click "read more" to read...
it. Gately writes: I consider myself a libertarian/conservative. Like many people of that bent, I was uncomfortable with Bush when he was nominated. ...
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bradblog.com - 10/17/2008
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bradblog.com —
KEY BRAD BLOG ARTICLES & DOCUMENTS IN THE
SERIES SO FAR ( Newest articles at the bottom....
) 2/15/06: PAPER: Ann Coulter Commits Vote Fraud Felony! Signs Someone Else's Address to Registration Form, Votes in Wrong Precinct! Could face $5,000 Fine, ...
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SPECIAL COVERAGE: Ann Coulter's Voter Fraud Felony
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The Liberal Media's Conservatives
Ross Douthat —
... with the Bush Republicans, in the case of Christopher Hitchens - who's publicly hurled brickbats at the McCain campaign as a quisling and a coward, a stooge for liberalism and a rat fleeing a fast-sinking ship. In such circumstances, what's the best course of action - denouncing the rats, or trying to figure out why the hell the ship is sinking? Even if Brooks and Noonan and Buckley and Dreher and Kathleen Parker and David Frum and Heather Mac Donald and Bruce Bartlett and George Will and on and on - note the ideological diversity in the ranks ...
Hands Off Palin
The Next Right —
Ross Douthat smartly reviews the unfolding civil war in the conservative pundit-sphere over Sarah Palin, and tries to call a truce of sorts:
In such circumstances, what's the best course of action - denouncing the rats, or trying to figure out why the hell the ship is sinking? Even if Brooks and Noonan and Buckley and Dreher and Kathleen Parker and David Frum and Heather Mac Donald and Bruce Bartlett and George Will and on and on - note the ideological diversity in the ranks of conservatives who aren't Helping The Team ...
10/15: It's The Same Old Song...
Blogometer —
... in the case of Christopher Hitchens -- who's publicly hurled brickbats at the McCain campaign as a quisling and a coward, a stooge for liberalism and a rat fleeing a fast-sinking ship. In such circumstances, what's the best course of action -- denouncing the rats, or trying to figure out why the hell the ship is sinking? Even if [David] Brooks and Noonan and Buckley and [Rod] Dreher and Kathleen Parker and David Frum and Heather Mac Donald and Bruce Bartlett and George Will and on and on -- note the ideological diversity in the ...
The Trajectory of Falling Objects
d r i f t g l a s s —
... Not to put too fine a point on it, but without the word “Conservative” tacked to their resumes, people like Andrew Sullivan, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks and a growing nest of “Obamacons” would all have had to go looking for honest work a very long time ago. ...
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First Read 10/14/2008
From NBC’s Ron Allen Here's something Joe Biden said, again, recently. "In my neighborhood, you want to say something about me, look me in the eye and tell me."
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Beware the Angry Wolverines —
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