-
Coen Brothers' ‘True Grit’ a Flawless Remake
Tweet Share on Facebook December 29, 2010 Comment (7)After I left Capitol Hill, I had the great fortune of working as an arts-and-entertainment writer at the Washington Times. The gig included the unfairly fun duty of writing weekly movie reviews and, occasionally, interviewing the “talent,” as directors, actors, and writers are referred to in Hollywood-publicist lingo.
-
The Libertarian Philosophy Is a Utopian Fantasy
Tweet Share on Facebook December 28, 2010 Comment (14) -
‘Socialist’ Label Should Be Discarded Altogether
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2010 Comment (6)Jim DeMint, the hardline conservative senator from South Carolina, must be a socialist.
In an exchange with Meet the Press’s David Gregory, a nervously coughing DeMint said Republicans plan to cut only Social Security “waste” and declared, “We need to keep our promises to seniors.”
-
There Are No Socialists Any More (Not Even Obama)
Tweet Share on Facebook December 24, 2010 Comment (6)Before we all head into holiday bliss, let’s indulge some more in everyone’s favorite subject: socialism!
-
If Barack Obama Is a Socialist Then You Are One Too
Tweet Share on Facebook December 23, 2010 Comment (1)Even if Stanley Kurtz is right, Barack Obama is not, and was never, a socialist.
By which I mean, Barack Obama wasn’t a socialist even if, as a young man, he thought he was.
-
Government Not Solely to Blame for Subprime Mortgage Meltdown
Tweet Share on Facebook December 16, 2010 Comment (3)Republicans are fond, not altogether without cause, of characterizing Democrats as liberal “ideologues.” But such lockstep thinking is hardly the exclusive preserve of the left.
-
What's Not to Like in Obama's Tax Deal?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2010 Comment (9)Well, what do you know: Seven in 10 Americans support the tax deal currently before Congress.
-
Is the Obama Tax Deal Really 'Stimulus II'?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 10, 2010 Comment (3)Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer castigates the “professional left” for railing at the Obama-GOP tax cut deal, arguing it’s “Stimulus II” in everything but name.
In the process, Dr. the K also reveals that he’s been disabused of the Wehner Delusion (defined by yours truly as the “quixotic belief that, this time--really, no foolin’--the people and their representatives have gotten serious about cutting spending”):
-
Why Glenn Beck Shouldn't Hate Woodrow Wilson Quite So Much
Tweet Share on Facebook December 8, 2010 Comment (3)"Houston, we have a problem. ... Yeah, I'm talking to you — David F. Houston. It's me: Woody. We've got some war-socialism policies I'd like to you dismantle."
"Sure, boss. You're talking to the right cat."
"Good. I don't want to go down in history as some kind of high-handed dirigiste, you know."
[Curtain falls. A century passes. The Claremont Institute assumes control of script.]
