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Farewell to U.S. News
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2012 Comment (4)It's with a mixture of sorrow and excitement that I share the following news: Starting next week, I'll be blogging at The American Conservative, whose thoroughly revamped website is set to launch soon.
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Newt Gingrich’s Attacks on Mitt Romney Won’t Help Obama Much
Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2012 Comment (4)When you watch former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's attacks on the record and character of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, collected here in an Obama campaign ad, it's a reminder of how brutal the Republican primary was for a time.
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What Barack Obama's 'Forward' Slogan Really Means
Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2012 Comment (9)My friend and former colleague Victor Morton of the Washington Times has a provocative take on the Obama campaign's use of the slogan "Forward." Unfortunately for Obama, Victor writes that the term brings with it a lot of leftist baggage:
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Frank Luntz Is Right About Conservative Cognitive Dissonance
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2012 Comment (2)Here's a sentence I didn't anticipate writing today: I think pollster Frank Luntz is onto something.
As part of the Washington Post Outlook section's "5 Myths" series, Luntz makes the case that ordinary voters who call themselves "conservative" aren't obsessed with reducing the size of government; don't want to deport illegal immigrants en masse; aren't big fans of Wall Street; want to preserve Medicare and Social Security; and agree with liberals that income inequality is at least problematic.
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Michael Gerson Doesn't Understand the Tea Party
Tweet Share on Facebook April 27, 2012 Comment (10)Michael Gerson’s Washington Post column Thursday is an unmitigated mess.
His first mistake is to take the rhetoric of the Tea Party—whose influence he associates with a strand of “Rejectionist” conservatism—at face value. He writes:
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Mitt Romney Must Be Bold to Beat Barack Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2012 Comment (6)Judging from Mitt Romney's speech last night, his first as the sure-thing nominee of his party, the former Massachusetts governor is opting for a textbook, play-it-safe campaign against a vulnerable incumbent.
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Why We Should Care About George Will's Radical Transformation
Tweet Share on Facebook April 25, 2012 Comment (13)One of my "beats" around here has been to document columnist George F. Will's unmistakable drift from Tory conservatism to doctrinaire libertarianism.
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Coaching Kids in an Age of Coddling and Overcompetitiveness
Tweet Share on Facebook April 23, 2012 Comment (1)I was riveted by two blog posts over the weekend, by Rod Dreher and David Kuo. Both involve the trials and tribulations of parenting and youth sports.
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Mitt Romney Is Shoring Up the Republican Base
Tweet Share on Facebook April 20, 2012 Comment (11)During the Republican primary—wait, is it still going on?—former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's failure to win a Southern state except Virginia (where his chief rivals were not on the ballot), and in particular his failure to win among evangelicals and "very conservative" Republicans, raised considerable doubts about the overall strength of his candidacy.
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Railing Against the Welfare State Gets Us Nowhere
Tweet Share on Facebook April 18, 2012 Comment (2)"What a drag it is getting old," goes a famous Rolling Stones lyric. Mick Jagger was singing about his era's desperate housewives—but the line is equally true of whole populations.
