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The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier … Continue reading →

Much as I might enjoy debating the comparative progressivism of President Warren “Racial Amalgamation There Cannot Be” Harding; much as, armed by biography, I’m ready to stand up for Professor President Thomas Woodrow Wilson against the dextrosphere’s leading anti-intellectual intellectuals, … Continue reading →

A full-fledged review of John Milton Cooper Jr.’s biography of Woodrow Wilson will have to be attempted somewhere else.  Anyone in conservative circles hoping to get a word in edgewise on the nation’s 28th President first has to contend with … Continue reading →

Seems the world’s coming to an end, again. Seems we’re all doomed, again. It’s your fault, again. Don’t know how you can live with yourself, this time. The Warmists are perspiring, as they do, over a report from University of … Continue reading →

For the unhappy many on the front lines of the Great War, after no one much remembered why they were fighting, one last recourse was gallows humor, implicitly at the expense of their leaders. “We’re here because we’re here because … Continue reading →

With the Administration focused on its domestic agenda, and with the next major decision on troop deployments not expected for weeks if not months, Speaker Pelosi, Representative John Murtha, and Senator Carl Levin have still found time in recent days … Continue reading →

The July 24 post on Contentions by Hirst about Kolakowski and Marx that I referred to in an earlier Zombie post has disappeared. I can’t think why.

…I guess that qualifies as “adversarial” for the new improved press corps of 2009. Sam Donaldson should be spinning in or into his grave.

If you’re interested in doing a play by play, you can go to the Dashboard main page, and use the QuickPress thingamajig (excuse the technical term) in the upper right. If you’re having dinner or playing with your dog or … Continue reading →

Semi-decent question, if meekly offered – and completely shifty, uninformative answer. I promised transparency, but it turned out to be kinda boring on the health care stuff, and, no, I don’t know what’s going on with TARP, what’s it to … Continue reading →

For once I’d really like to know whether the Frank Luntz focus group types believed any of that about the deficit and spending.

How telling that the exposure (the precise degree of exposure!) as well as the naturalness of a beauty pageant contestant’s breasts became central elements in the pseudo-debate over whether or not she deserved to keep her crown, and would be … Continue reading →