David Frum's Blog, page 77

Who are Today's Rigid Ideologues?

Read Rod Dreher's words very, very carefully. And please, someone, try to explain how he's not 100 percent correct. I'm waiting.

Home News, Part 1

Delighted to announce that a second edition of Patriots has just been released in print and e-book editions. The new edition is slightly shorter, has a more handsome font, and removes some last remaining formatting glitches. Although the book is set in a fictitious world after the defeat of the nation's first black president, I believe that the story and the observations about Washington politics remain relevant in our very different reality. As ever, I remain very interested to hear rea...

Here Comes Hillary

Can young guns like Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan fix the Republican Party's recent electoral struggles? Robert W. Patterson, author of the guest post below, says not so fast:

The Sequester Is 'Unwise,' And No, It's Time Hasn't Come

National Review's editors endorse the sequester as an "unwise" idea whose time has come.

The GOP's Two-Front Losing Strategy

Here's a poll backing for my analysis yesterday that Republicans will lose their fight with the president over the sequester.

Accept It: ObamaCare is Here to Stay

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has agreed to add 1 million people to his state's Medicaid rolls.

Our Dangerously Bad Bureaucracy

When I started as a White House staffer in 2001, I had to fill in a form that - among other things - required the date and destination of every foreign trip I'd taken over the past (I think) 10 years. I couldn't begin to remember, and since I'd converted from a paper diary to electronic only sometime late in the 1990s, the trips weren't going to be easy to reconstruct. I asked the White House counsel's office what to do. "Just do the best you can," they advi...

This New Pro-Gay Marriage Ad Has a Target Audience of One

Basic message of the above video: "Justice Kennedy, do you really want to be to the right of Dick Cheney?"

Lengthen the Path to Citizenship

I made my Bloggingheads debut yesterday, talking a few pet topics: immigration, the filibuster, and the future of the GOP. I'll have more on the latter two in the near future, but for now a few brief thoughts on immigration reform.

'Our Bodies Ourselves' and the 21st Century

Looks like Tumblr has replaced hand mirrors! The Large Labia Project is a Tumblr feed whereby a woman can submit a picture of her vagina to the moderator, Emma, who then posts the picture along with her own praise.