Category Archives: politics

Pataki for 2012?

Posted on April 19, 2010 by David Hume

Pataki for Prez?. He needs to flip to being pro-life very soon if he wants to be viable. The only reason I point to this is to illustrate how many names are going to emerge from the woodwork before 2011. … Continue reading →

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Okey Dokey

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via AP: LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) – Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of about 16,000 attending an evangelical Christian women’s conference in Louisville Friday night. The Courier-Journal reports the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president mixed stories of personal struggles … Continue reading →

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Cato on Mitt Romney

Posted on April 15, 2010 by David Hume

I talked about this possibility before. Don’t know if it has legs to push into the 2012 primary season. If it doesn’t knock Romney out, I believe we can take this as evidence of the power of establishment Republicanism despite … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Lesson

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Bradlaugh

Here’s a curious little sequence of video clips from BBC News. They show us how education goes in Finland. Then we get a clip of schooling in South Korea. And then the BBC’s Matt Frei interviews Arne Duncan, our federal … Continue reading →

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From the Glass House

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

The effort by some, mainly Islamic, nations to use the United Nations in an attempt to muzzle what they refer to as “defamation” of religion on the pretense that it constitutes some sort of infringement of the rights of the faithful … Continue reading →

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Obama As Antichrist & Other Modern Myths

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Fond as I am of The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby and other such devil movies, I can’t claim any great expertise on the question of who may—or may not—be a likely antichrist. On the whole, I don’t think that Obama is … Continue reading →

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Great Leaps Backward

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Not long after the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975 I remember hearing accounts of how the victorious Khmer Rouge was smashing up radios, gramophones, televisions and other consumer goods. It was at that moment I felt certain that Cambodia … Continue reading →

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Believing Your Own Mythology

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

Believing too fervently in your own political party’s mythology can sometimes backfire. Here is a nice example of this from the UK, where the Labour party’s insistence in treating the 1980s as a period of Thatcherite terror appears to have backfired in … Continue reading →

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The unchurched president

Posted on March 30, 2010 by David Hume

Should Obama Attend Church?: Tonight NBC Nightly News aired a clip from Matt Lauer’s interview with President Obama, in which he asked the President why he has not chosen a church to attend. He was told that so doing would … Continue reading →

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Spreading the Poison

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Andrew Stuttaford

This story (from the London Times) comes as no great surprise: SAUDI ARABIA is pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into Islamist groups in the Balkans, some of which spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in … Continue reading →

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