tnr.com - 14 days ago
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Matthew Continetti's editorial in last week's issue of the Weekly Standard --"The Inevitability Myth: Health care reform is not a fait accompli"--makes the case that, despite all evidence, health care reform may not be enacted after all. (Continetti does concede that "the chances ...
thenextright.com - 16 days ago
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thenextright.com —
[ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman
campaign . However, the views here are my own.
I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ] The bottom line on NY-23 : Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ...
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What Did NY-23 Mean?
justoneminute.typepad.com - 8 days ago
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justoneminute.typepad.com —
The NY Times front-pages a mini-debacle - Peter
Galbraith, adviser to John Kerry and Joe Biden, has
been getting rich off the advice he has been giving the Kurds: American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits By JAMES...
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No Blood For Oil. Unless It Is For Democrats
nytimes.com - 9 days ago
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nytimes.com —
Townshend, Vt. IN a surge of realism, the
Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has
broken up and cannot be put back together. The measure, co-sponsored by Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Sam Brownback, Republican of ...
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Make Walls, Not War
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Waving The Standard
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Chait reads a recent editorial in the Weekly Standard and concludes: A magazine like National Review specializes in making the case for conservative ideas. The Standard's
contribution is to assert over and over that Republicans are
succeeding, or at least doing better than you think they are. The idea
is to buck up your side and encourage them to keep fighting, in order
to ward off the self-defeating psychology of losing.
It's unclear to me why the subscribers of that magazine pay money to
be the subjects of a ...
It's always sunny in Weekly Standard Land
Political Animal —
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN WEEKLY STANDARD LAND.... Jonathan Chait had a great item the other on the defining characteristic of one of the key Republican news outlets: the Weekly Standard . A magazine like National Review specializes in making the case for conservative ideas. The Standard 's contribution is to assert over and over that Republicans are succeeding, or at least doing better than you think they are. The idea is to buck up your side and encourage them to keep fighting, in order to ward off the self-defeating psychology of losing. It's unclear to me why the ...
Kristol by the case
Balloon Juice —
... No discussion of good news for conservatives is complete without mention of Jon Chait’s excellent compendium of Weekly Standard good news proclamations from 2005-2008, which probably were—and this is no exaggeration—the most disastrous run of years for Republicans in modern political history. Most of it’s a twofer, because not only is it all good news for conservatives, it’s all ...
How To Be A Hack
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
The Weekly Kristol does indeed set the gold standard, among other things usefully demonstrating the distinction between a conservative publication and a straightforward extension of the Republican Party. My personal ...
Susan J. Demas: The Confidence Gap Between Democrats And Republicans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity, from Fox News to The Weekly Standard. The message is always the same: Whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins (and God bless St. Ronald Reagan). ...
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