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May 2018

May 23, 2018

Australian Conservatives are Catching the American Party of Trump Dementia

A sane conservative Catholic writes from Oz: I have seen, of course, a great deal....

December 2016

December 10, 2016

I remember when conservatives opposed Russian espionage in America

Good times, good times.

October 2016

October 29, 2016

My former Republican Party

Bret Stephens on the racist, misogynist Trump freak show that was once conservatism.

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Why the GOP Won’t Renounce Trump

Krugman in an aptly titled piece: All that has happened this year is a move...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Senate Bill Included Amendment to Limit Stripper Weight

Sponsored by a member of the Party of the Golden Ass, natch.

May 14, 2016

The Problem With Conservatism

Twenty years ago J. Budzisewski penned a diagnosis of the diseases which have led to...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

The Leader of the GOP Field Just Endorsed Something Called “Operation Wetback”…

...the GOP is baffled at how anybody can say it is the natural and obvious...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Ann Coulter Erupts in Know Nothingism

Tweets: I'm an American and this is why our founders (not "immigrants"!) distrusted Catholics &...

September 23, 2015

Today’s Right Wing Francis Hatred

The Right is in complete panic mode.

September 22, 2015

Why Conservatives are Going Nuclear…

...on Pope Francis. "It matters because of what it shows us about the way ideological...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

“He’s just saying what we’re all thinking”

The Frankenstein Id Monster base of the GOP don't seem to get that this is...

July 2015

July 11, 2015

Gillis Harp Writes a Fine Piece for Crisis

...pointing out the obvious fact that capitalism, unmoored from all consideration except profit is as...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

GOP Announces Formation of Committee to Elect Hillary Clinton

First out of the gate in that endeavor, committee chair Ted Cruz, whose appalling abuse of...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

GOP to Prolifers…

Thanks for your support, suckers!

December 2014

December 23, 2014

“To stamp out world Communism I would be willing to destroy the entire universe, even to the furthest star.”

Ryan McMaken on some of the truly insane things rattling around in the attic of...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Chicks on the Right Do a Bang up Job of Illustrating why…

..."The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend" should be written a thousand...

November 03, 2014

The prophet Whittaker Chambers

A friend writes: Did you ever come accross this quote? Whittaker Chambers wrote this shortly...

October 2014

October 06, 2014

This man showed such promise to the highly discerning Thing that Used to be Conservatism

...that it promoted him to Executive Director of the South Carolina GOP: Oh, but that's...

October 06, 2014

Today’s Freaking Insane Conservative News

You can't get me far enough away from this lunacy fast enough: "The former general...

October 02, 2014

The American Conservative…

...on the lamentable state of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism. Heretic-burning "conservatism" can...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

NRO Writer: Hang Women Who Have Had Abortions

Dear Thing that Used to Be Conservatism: This is why people hate you.

September 26, 2014

Ted Cruz: There really is no bottom…

...to the despicable cynicism of this despicable man. First, he betrays Middle Eastern Christians for...

September 25, 2014

Dear Prolife Conservatives

Those Republicans you voted for in the Most Important Election of our Lifetime? The ones...

September 23, 2014

FOX: Raising cynical nihilistic nonsense to an art form

A reader nicely sums up the latest nonsense from the FOX Ministry of Truth: Obama...

September 23, 2014

FOX Panelist argues Japanese Internment Camps Were Justified

The infallible charism of Wrongness again asserts itself, this time in favor of, y'know, suggesting...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

Pamela Geller Looks Longingly at Communist China

In the ongoing metamorphoses of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism into a social...

August 22, 2014

Tom McDonald is right

The Imaginative Conservative (along with the American Conservative) has become one of the few organs...

August 09, 2014

It turns out that when you cut taxes on people who have boatloads of money

...and try to get blood from the turnip of people who have no money (just...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Stupid Francis-Hating Conservative Tricks

Talking Hairdo at Breitbart complains that Francis is helping kids at US border but not...

July 28, 2014

A conservative reader from Kentucky writes…

Mark, the conservative Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Ky state senate has...

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