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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 [...]

¶ Posted 29 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Dextro § Republican Party § Sarah Palin ‡ Comments (18) ° Tagged: HotAir, John McCain, Sarah Palin

Snakes on the Fruited Plain

Slublog – The Greenroom – Signs of Stage Two.

¶ Posted 19 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § 2010 Elections § Health Care ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: Tea Party

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATISM THEN AND NOW

Frustrated with his inability to control a sprawling government and anticipating a climate such as today’s, late in his second presidential term Reagan began arguing for a package of five constitutional amendments that he called his “Economic Bill of Rights.” (Once again he borrowed from FDR, who used the same label for a very different [...]

¶ Posted 07 March 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day § Republican Party ‡ Comments (32) ° Tagged: I have not yet begun to fight, progressivism, Real Progressivism, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – want ad

(The conclusion of WR Mead’s must-read post on the Tea Party Movement): At this point no national political leader has emerged who seems capable of providing the leadership the new populists seek. Sarah Palin stirred their hearts, but her appeal does not seem to grow as her exposure increases. Certainly there is no one of [...]

¶ Posted 23 February 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day ‡ Comments (12) ° Tagged: David Petraeus, Populism, Sarah Palin, Stanley McChrystal, Walter Russell Mead

Bennett vs. Beck

As between the Ph.D. in political philosophy (for whom I once worked) and a self-described rodeo clown, I’ll go with the former every time. If Glenn Beck were the future of conservatism, it would become a discredited movement. Fortunately, though, he’s not, and it won’t. Peter Wehner “Bennett vs. Beck,” Contentions Seems Rex and Narciso [...]

¶ Posted 22 February 2010 † CK MacLeod § Dextro § Media § Republican Party § US History ‡ Comments (64) ° Tagged: Bill Bennett, Glenn Beck

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – One Year Later

Full transcript at FREEDOM EDEN: Rick Santelli: Tea Party.

¶ Posted 19 February 2010 † CK MacLeod § Contention of the Day ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Rick Santelli

In the palm of her hand

Glancing at the title of an Andrew Sullivan post – “One Last Word” – linked at Memeorandum Saturday night, I knew it had to be about Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Nation keynote speech. My guess was that he’d gotten busy yesterday, summoning his personal Palin demons and holding a tea party of his own with [...]

¶ Posted 07 February 2010 † CK MacLeod § Politics § Sarah Palin § Sinistro ‡ Comments (69) ° Tagged: Andrew Sullivan, Godwin's Law, Huffington Post, Palin, Tea Party, Think Progress

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¶ Posted 28 January 2010 † Barbara § Politics ‡ Comments (27) ° Tagged: Scott Brown, tyrrany

Can’t tell the players without a program

I wouldn’t necessarily trust Mark McKinnon – the long-time McCain associate who abandoned the ’08 campaign out of emotional reluctance to oppose our destined Truly Great Leader – to make it from a drive-thru’s menu to the cashier, but his article today at the Daily Beast struck me as even-handed, non-judgmental, and moderately informative – [...]

¶ Posted 05 January 2010 † CK MacLeod § 2010 Elections ‡ Comments (44) ° Tagged: Tea Party

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Zolt The Jew: I finished "The Israel Test" on the plane coming home from the beach, Colin et all my dear frems. I will try to email Colin a brief review tomorrow. It is a very important book, of just over 250 big print pages. I could write more on it right now but right now the blonde below is distracting my attention. There is something about blondes with that look and the puckered lips which drives Jewish men crazy, crazy, crazy, even after a full day of Shabbas prayer, oy vey!
CK MacLeod: The Blonde Below...
CK MacLeod: Stop distracting me... I'm conjoining universes...
narciso: Just to get it straight, you're talking about Lady Gaga,
fustidious: clean up on the recbrow aisle needed!
CK MacLeod: feh
fuster the never satisfried: I see that you've grown more fond of the menu on top thing. I liked it from the git, but wonder if you might to able to work on the eye-appeal of it.
Howard Portnoy: Wow, it's my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander's rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security, Sapo, Larsson's journalist background does allow him to expound on the 'national security state' hidden in Social Democracy

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- when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…
  March 6, 2010 | 12:17 pm
  … (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
  
  “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
  
  Margo @ Yet another global warming apocalypse.
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Collected Poetry of Sully
- Telomeres
  February 17, 2010 | 6:23 am
  Telomeres of defined length,
  Were by his God in mankind bent,
  To make it sure that aged ones,
  Would pass to make room for their sons,
  Before they learn to mount the hill,
  They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
  
  New daughters too then see their day,
  As the used up old fair pass away,
  And the brighter young can in their turn,
  Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
  
  One day mankind may beat the odds,
  And take on the powers of the gods.
  Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
  And include within his toy’s equippage,
  A strictly limited telomere,
  To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
  
  For once a former God is whipped,
  Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
  The former toy learns something odd,
  About possession of the mind of God,
  Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
  Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
  
  Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
  For their script entire a God knows for sure,
  To divert a toy must have free will,
  And at least a chance to climb the hill,
  There to displace its God, a bitter pill
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