Pawlenty has been going after Bachmann pretty hard and Bachmann hit back today. She even compared him to Obama. Bachmann’s attack is pretty clever in the way it manages to paint any rhetoric or politics of effective governance as Obama/socialist/Big Government. Pawlenty . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be at the ISI honors program this week at the Admiral Fell hotel in Fell’s Point, Baltimore. Tomorrow afternoon I will speak on Lockean America, etc. Among other things, I will explain why the road to serfdom never gets to serfdom and why I am right about the Tea Party. And everything . . . . Continue Reading »
I believe I am, after reading that Pawlenty Studies thread below where Peter says the choice will come down to Bachmann or Romney. It’s been long enough, Iraq’s as okay as you could hope for, and Obama’s failure to reverse the most-demonized Bush II policies mean that the . . . . Continue Reading »
MY view on what a study shows is that neither party speaks for the people now. That might point to compromise on this debt ceiling thing—over which the president is cleverly disingenuous and the Republicans seem confused. But the deeper point is that the Republicans have a lot of work to do . . . . Continue Reading »
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has made a name for herself over the years by expressing some very controversial views, like advocating arms sales to Hugo Chavez’s regime in Venezuela. For many, she has richly earned the right to be dismissed. But her widely reported speech last . . . . Continue Reading »
Jason’s post below puts me on the side of the primacy of CULTURE, and our friends from Claremont (THE WEST COAST STRAUSSIANS) on the side of the primacy of POLITICS. (I want to thank Jason and the gracious Mr. Kienker for their positive publicity.) I’m not sure I’m quite either. . . . . Continue Reading »
John B. Kienker, managing editor of Claremont Review of Books, has a positive review of Peter’s Modern and American Dignity in the June/July issue of First Things. He concludes the piece with this friendly criticism: Ultimately, however, Lawler finds mere political . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam notes Tim Pawlenty’s miserable results in a recent national poll. Pawlenty is losing to Gingrich, Cain, Santorum, and Ron Paul. Salam finds it interesting that this collection of . . . idiosyncratic people are all beating the guy running as a . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a comment from the thread below on my post on the last FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. It’s somewhat pro-Porcher and supported by evidence. Additions and revisions are mostly parenthetical at this point, but inin a most postodern way I hope the revision process will be continuous. Not sure . . . . Continue Reading »
Everybody needs to read William Voegeli’s awesome post on how Obama is running circles around the congressional Republicans in the public argument over the debt ceiling increase and cutting the deficit. Somehow Obama is now the one who is serious about controlling the . . . . Continue Reading »
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