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The Dogma Of Henninger

For a glimpse into why American conservatism really is intellectually dead, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is a pretty good start. Daniel Henninger today pulls a Mark Levin, turning a deeply difficult series of choices about taxes and spending into an abstract debate between two theories. And the description of those two theories would flunk a paper in political theory in a freshman class.

The question is how to tackle the mounting debt and current deficit. Henninger accepts...

Decomposin' Arizona

Here's what I don't understand: illegal immigration is down in part because of the economy; and enforcement seems to be much tougher if these stories about the corpses of migrants found in more remote areas are true (and dead bodies are a pretty solid statistic). So why the uptick in anti-illegal hysteria now?
















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A Town Is Razed In Israel

The video above is distressing. The following context might help:

Scores of Bedouin men were standing on a yellow hill, sharing their
experiences from the early morning hours, while all around them
olive trees lay on the ground. A whole village comprising between 40
and 45 houses had been completely razed in less than three hours.

I suddenly experienced deja vu: an image of myself walking in the rubbles of a destroyed village somewhere on the outskirts of the Lebanese city of Sidon...

The GOP: Fiscal Frauds

Paul Ryan can only name two things he would cut from the federal budget: repealing the rest of the stimulus and TARP. Seriously? Shadegg falls for the bullshit of an "across the board cut". Steve King repeats the nonsense that the Bush tax cuts paid for themselves. Others are merely flailing.

If you care about debt and deficits, do not, repeat do not, enable the GOP to take us all down that denialist road to bankruptcy again.

Paul Ryan - Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation ...

Health Insurance Reform And The Mid-Terms

To my mind, the coming elections are all about whether 1) the Republicans have a better alternative than returning to Bush-Cheney policies on spending, taxes, war and debt and 2) whether what the Democrats have done in this Congress is worth rewarding. My view is that 1) the GOP has actually gotten worse since Bush-Cheney and their vows of spending cuts are utterly unconvincing (especially since they will have no mandate on any of the specifics necessary to forge a new path). And I remain of ...

Où Sont Les Dodo Chaplets d'Antan?

In a rare congruence, some writers at NRO agree with the Dish on ... Doctor Who.

My favorite doctor's assistant? Patrick Troughton's Jamie, on whom I had a massive crush as a little boy. (Given the image above, who wouldn't? And he looked so hot in a kilt facing a Yeti.)

And I have to say I always feared the Cybermen more than the Daleks. Why? I presumed in my bed at night that the Daleks couldn't get up the stairs.

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Why Not?

Ryan Avent suggests putting a $5 tax on every barrel of oil.
















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Green Shoots, Green Movement

Providing some historical perspective on Iran's Greens, Michael Singh keeps hope alive:

All three opposition movements [of the 20th century:] took years to consolidate beforebecoming powerful enough to force change on the regime. TheConstitutional Revolution, which is thought of as emerging around 1905,as protests broke out over tariffs, was in fact a continuation ofevents that began in 1891, with the campaign to overturn an exclusivetobacco concession the shah had granted to the British...

Mel Gibson: What He Did To His Girlfriend

The neo-fascist punched her in the face. Now we have the photograph of her chipped teeth.
















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