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ZOMBIE CONTENTIONS HAS SHAMBLED…

…OVER TO A NEW LOCATION:  http://zombiecontentions.com/ Please update your bookmarks.  Authors please e-mail the Web Tsar for new passwords.

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – No going back (plus, ahem, familiar-sounding bonus)

We are at the beginning of an election campaign like you’ve never seen before! We are challenged to answer again the momentous questions our Founders raised when they launched mankind’s noblest experiment in human freedom. They made a fundamental choice and changed history for the better. Now it’s our high calling to make that choice: [...]

Zombie Easeover – UPDATE – NEW LOCATION UNDEAD

Easeover is the Easter/Passover/Spring holiday that syncreticist mischlings like myself celebrate around this time of year.  Seems like a good time to attempt a Zombie Contentions resurrection, too. The plan is to move this site to a new location, and a new web host, this Sunday.  I hope that after the move we’ll experience fewer [...]

It wasn’t a very good year: 1938 – Hitler’s Gamble by Giles Macdonogh

Considering the centrality of “Munich” to American thinking on foreign policy – and the centrality of the war that followed to what America has become – there’s an argument for considering 1938 to be as important to our understanding of ourselves as other American milestone years – 1776, 1787, 1860, 1929, 1945, and so on. [...]

Has kind of a Fred Davis feel…

h/t:  Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: NRSC hails Obama the Promise Keeper!

Yes, it stinks – for you (substantive rebuttal on the Palin/McCain endorsement)

Some have accused MadisonConservative, myself, and others of having devoted too much attention to Sarah Palin’s endorsement of John McCain, but MC is right to attach “considerable” importance to Palin’s positions, since, as he says, “people throughout the blogosphere have been casting Palin as the new face of conservatism.”  I’d add:  It’s not only in [...]

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Dealt with

Just thought I should note the response by HA’er Madison Conservative – “Actually, Palin’s endorsement of McCain really does stink” – to my post on Palin & McCain.  Here’s the conclusion. Overall, my point is this: is Sarah Palin a strong conservative? If she is, why is she endorsing McCain? They disagree on a number [...]

Sorry, Palin and Hayworth supporters, but you’re in denial about the McCain endorsement

We’ve had numerous threads at HotAir – headline and main page – on the Hayworth-McCain race and Palin’s endorsement of her former running mate. The latest item was Meghan McCain’s piece on “McCain-Palin – The Sequel.” In that piece, Ms. McCain describes the pairing “the best of both Republican worlds.” It struck me as one [...]

Repeal, reform, and replace the narrative

Writing the day after ObamaCare’s passage in the House, Jonathan Tobin at the Contentions blog framed the event as he believes the Democrats see it: [T]his bill’s purported goal of providing affordable health insurance to every American is seen by Obama and his backers as not only just but also inevitable, much the same way [...]

light posting

…working on a new post metastatizing beyond my control… will try to cut it down and serve it up this evening… also working on a new location for the blog – will report developments soon… also got business to take care of… later!

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Resolved…

Instead of counting on watered-down United Nations sanctions, the West should cut off all diplomatic ties with Iran, close down all airspace and seaports going to or from Iran, sanction all companies doing business with Iran, and cut off its gasoline supply. We should then demand an immediate halt to all Iranian nuclear and missile [...]

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – K.I.S.S. OFF TO THE FALL CAMPAIGN

[L]et’s keep it simple: S. 1 and H.R. 1 for the next session (and in 2013, since Obama will presumably be able to block repeal next year) should be the one sentence repeal bill. S. 2 and H.R. 2 should be some version of the perfectly good Republican substitute that was defeated this year. So [...]

Now that it’s done

How little you know: The Deniable Darwin by David Berlinski

The Deniable Darwin collects essays written from 1996 to 2009 mostly on the same general theme: That the insufferable pretensions and aggressive self-certainty of science ideologues prevent us from justly appreciating how much we actually have learned about the natural world, and how wonderfully little that is. He applies his dauntingly well-informed, remorselessly cogent skepticism [...]

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