Sarah Palin Watch Watch

Maybe I can’t resist or maybe I’m trying to make a point. Three years from now, Sarah Palin might conceivably run for president. Already today, the media are doing everything in their power to “frame the argument” as epistemological relativists are forced to do. Some of their reflections are insightful, most are incredibly one-sided and [...]

Sarah Palin as Hobbit?

I’m not sure about Sarah Palin yet, though, like the rest of the talking head world, she’s been on my mind a lot lately. I don’t want to be a knee-jerk reactionary like the Progressive Media, but this article is powerful stuff. It will offend Progressives (who go by the deceptive term “liberals” now), and [...]

McCain’s lies, revisited

In today’s news, TheHill.com brings out the old Lilian Helmann, statistics, bromide, applying it to that dishonorable, disgusting John McCain. Here, according to Mark Mellman, is the case against John McCain: Yet John McCain himself stands behind the lies and the dishonor. There is not a kernel of truth in the statement that Barack Obama [...]

Charles Gibson, The Bush Doctrine, and Sarah Palin

This is not a political web site and the only reason I’ve commented on the Republican convention and not the Democratic is because I was traveling during the Democratic. I’m not a dogmatist in politics, longing only for those with authority to allow others in authority to fulfill their responsibilities without interference, while decidedly not [...]

Election 2008

“I want schools to answer to students and parents.” John McCain I am not a partisan political guy, but I liked that line. If he can deliver… After Sarah Palin’s speech last night I felt a wind blow across American conservatism.  A lot of sleeping and uncertain people were aroused. If she doesn’t stumble, I [...]