Jay Cost: Another Jacksonian Moment
Jay Cost writes on the reaction to the Democrats’ health care overhaul:
We might be on the verge of another Jacksonian moment: a time when the people awake from their slumber, angrily exercise their sovereign authority, and mercilessly fire the leaders who have for too long catered to the elites rather than average people. The first [...]
Fear of The Mother
In his eye-opening, astute new book,
The Persecution of Sarah
Palin, Matthew Continetti argues
that the “story of Sarah Palin is the story of American political
journalism’s intellectual bankruptcy,” and while Continetti’s
narrative does include plenty of lesser-known biographical detail
it also contextualizes Palin into [...]
Currying foreign favor brings Obama a prize, but no favors for the U.S.
E.J. Dionne claims he perceives a contradiction between conservative reaction to the IOC’s rebuff of President Obama’s plea to hold the Olympics in Chicago and the Nobel committee’s decision to grant him its Peace Prize. Dionne wonders how conservatives can argue that the IOC’s decision demonstrated that the administration has not improved America’s [...]
Hugh Hewitt: ‘A "Yes" Vote On Cloture Crushes Medicare and American Medicine’
Hugh Hewitt writes:
Eight Democratic senators stand between the Medicare and the destruction of the senior health care program as well as the ruin of American medicine generally. These eight know the stakes and have written Harry Reid to demand that the Democratic leader slow down the jam down so that they and the public [...]
Explaining Polanskiites
In Dennis Prager’s Townhall column today, he asks the most obvious and urgent question about the Roman Polanski crisis, the same point noted by Movie Badger in a previous Lizardian post:
How is one to explain the film world’s conscience?
He refers not to Polanski himself; as Movie Badger noted, the existence of evil people is not [...]
9/11 plus eight
It’s difficult to disagree with Mark Steyn’s take:
9/11 was bad news if you were enjoying the good life in a jihadist training camp in the Hindu Kush. But, over the long run, it was a useful lesson in the limits of western will.
It is often said that “our way of life” was attacked on [...]
