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Category Archives: American politics

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

“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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Conservative Man Holds the Purse

         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 [...]

Fatherhood and Democracy

  The ideal citizen in any high-functioning democracy is the father. He is more important politically than the mother;  more important than the young man without children or the single woman; more important as a type than even the property owner. If I were to build an infant republic, I would limit the franchise to fathers, possibly making ownership of property an additional qualification. [...]

Miz Palin

  Kidist Paulos Asrat reflects on Sarah Palin’s use of the title Ms. At her blog Camera Lucida, Miss Asrat writes: But, why not Mrs. Palin? Why resort to the Ms. title which is more liberal than conservative, more feminist than traditional? Well, Ms. Palin is neither conservative nor traditional. In fact, she is a member of an organization [...]

What the President Didn’t Say

  In his pep talk to the nation’s children today, President Obama forgot to mention that many of the greatest Americans never went to school or hardly went at all. It’s a fact that contradicts much of what he said. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison had very little formal [...]

Obama’s Speech to Children

   Jim Greer, chairman of Florida’s Republican Party, stated this week in regard to President Obama’s upcoming speech to the nation’s schoolchildren:  “As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology. The idea that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his [...]

A Spineless Man in Action

  If you want to get a sense of the sort of bootless, onion-eyed, flap-mouthed, milk-livered man who leads America today, read this Washington Post story about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell. Two decades ago, McDonnell stated in a master’s thesis that working women and feminists were “detrimental” to the family. Now, though he still claims to [...]