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Category Archives: American politics

Palin Pop

 
 
Sarah Palin isn’t against big government. She isn’t anti-abortion in any politically meaningful sense. She isn’t a foe of feminist entitlement.  And she isn’t very bright. What is she? In the words of Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, Palin “is not so much a political figure as a sort of national fertility symbol.”

Why the Culture War is a Religious War

 
THE DEMOCRATS could have their health care reform. They could summon the votes if they abandoned the hope of government-funded abortion. Why don’t they concede on an issue ancillary to the goal of nationalized medicine?
On the Stupak amendment, Lawrence Auster writes:
It’s fascinating that the campaign to nationalize health care, which Stupak otherwise supports, is crashing in a heap because most [...]

Our Legislative Philistines

 
JOHN LOFTON, a former Republican advisor who hosts the American View radio show, attended a question-and-answer session with Maryland lawmakers and grilled them on their understanding of the Constitution and oath of office. The ensuing exchanges are a disturbing glimpse into a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

Palin in 2012: The Nightmare We Deserve

 
 
AS I’VE SAID before, Sarah Palin, for all her enthusiasm and charm, is a feminist who lacks the intelligence, character and principles to be president. The blogger Stag Heath has a very witty description of the possibility of Palin running against Obama in 2012:
 

A Boy and a Girl

 
Rita writes:
I’m dying to know what you think of this photo. Do you think this couple is in love or….?

The Pop Mysticism of the Palin Candidacy

 
There is little doubt at this point that Sarah Palin is running for president. But she is more than an aspiring candidate.  Palin is the spiritual leader of  Desperate America. That is not to say she has no practical talents. She does, but these have very little to do with her appeal. Mystical fervor, born of desperation, is a [...]

The Demented Sarah Palin Debate

 
Andrew Sullivan proclaims in his Atlantic Monthly blog that Sarah Palin is a “delusional fantasist” and a “deeply disturbed person.” At the other extreme, a writer for the American Thinker says Palin is the victim of sexual violence by leftists.
To say Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure is an understatement. The vile attacks of her by liberals [...]

An Aging Country Singer?

Kidist Paulos Asrat writes at her blog:
The most revealing thing about Palin’s re-emergence as an author is that the book, from the many reviews and critiques about it, says very little about her political aspirations. Instead, it seems replete with petty personal grievances about her botched vice presidential campaign, and attacks of her grandson’s father.
A serious [...]

“Vindication is Not the Goal of Mine”

IN AN INTERVIEW with Barbara Walters on Good Morning America today, Sarah Palin insisted she was not seeking revenge against the McCain campaign in her new book. “Vindication is not the goal of mine,” Palin said, with characteristic syntactical roguishness. She also said nasty allegations against her were “bullcrap.”

Palin made another revealing and unsettling revelation about her [...]

‘Going Rogue’

 

I LIKE SARAH PALIN. There is something refreshingly genuine and un-smarmy about her. But, after watching Oprah’s interview this afternoon with the former candidate, I have not altered my fundamental opposition to her as a future president.
I oppose her possible candidacy for two reasons. One, she is not smart and steely enough. Two, she is a [...]

The Queen Bee

 
NANCY PELOSI is the most powerful woman in American history. With the passage this weekend of the health care reform bill, the depressing enormity of this statement is clear. Here is a woman who is changing America. This flaky, arrogant, cock-eyed leftist, a grandmother who once attended an all-women’s Catholic college and who now dresses like the hostess of [...]

A Victory for Children and Freedom

 
VOTERS in Maine yesterday overturned a new law legalizing same-sex marriage, making Maine the 31st state to reject homosexual marriage by popular vote. In every state in which same-sex marriage has been put to a vote of the people, it has lost.
Because of Maine’s proximity to Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut, where same-sex marriage has been approved through court [...]

Can Liberty Survive Feminism?

 
Lawrence Auster writes here:
It appears to be the case that if a society gives equal political rights to women, then over time there will inevitably be an expectation of equal political outcomes for women. How is this dynamic to be forestalled? By stating up front, by establishing it as a fundamental principle of the society, [...]

Why Not Support Palin?

 
In the following exchange, a reader challenges my comments about Sarah Palin. I present what I believe to be the traditionalist woman’s case against Palin for president.  
Elizabeth P. writes:
Many of your comments I find great rapport with, until I read the one concerning Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and their husbands [see preceding entry].
It is perhaps stretching it a bit [...]

The Conservative Man Holds the Purse

 

    

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, was the subject of a profile yesterday in the New York Times. She is an up-and-coming Republican star.  In her recent statements on health care reform, she has questioned the Constitutional authority for a federal mandate on health insurance. Bachmann, who is pretty and a frequent guest on cable news shows, has been accused of spreading [...]