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April 2013

April 11, 2013

Just Listen to These Devils in Human Form

Who can dispute our urgent need to go to war with them and slaughter as...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Why ‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Could Not Be Written Today

is the question raised by the eminently sane Daniel McCarthy. Oooh! Oooh! Me! Me! I...

March 20, 2013

We Have to Abandon All our Principles and Support the Prolife GOP

Because they care *so* much about us: "On March 6, the House Republican leadership called...

March 19, 2013

Opposite evils to do not balance: They aggravate each other

A reader complains: You and Galupo are just wrong about Palin. Her bit with the...

March 19, 2013

Here’s an Idea for the GOP: Stop Lionizing Stupidity

"Republicans will start winning elections again by telling Americans they should be proud of acting...

March 11, 2013

Meanwhile, in the Fever Swamps…

it turns out that Obama is a communist agent whose "presidency had been planned since...

March 11, 2013

Bill Kristol: Infallibly Wrong About Everything

Bill Kristol, Warmonger Extraordinaire, has managed to be so wrong so often about so many...

March 07, 2013

Avatars of Thing That Used to be Conservativism Attack Actual Conservatism

Well that didn't take long. Tom McDonald notes on his FB page about the political...

March 01, 2013

Thing that Used to Be Conservatism Cheers for Despotism

In our current state of political discourse, the idea of thinking before reacting is getting...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

When You Hit Bottom, Don’t Keep Digging

Eliana Johnson explains why it was stroke of genius to attack Obama for calling the...

February 01, 2013

Is National Review Losing Its Senses?

In one of the weirder moments of neocon contrarianism, NRO chooses to forge ahead with...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Why I Call it the “Thing that Used to Be Conservatism”…

...is nicely captured in this comment from fellow Chestertonian Deacon Nathan Allen, who writes: Anyone...

January 23, 2013

As the Boy Who Cried Wolf Discovered…

...when you scream "HITLER!" every time something doesn't go your way, you wind up having...

January 22, 2013

Nutjob secessionism is not welcome here

So to demonstrate that our gun culture is perfectly rational, the conversation in my comboxes...

January 10, 2013

Nudging the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism Toward Treating with Reality

After watching the spectacle of readers trying to justify/deny the latest eruption of ObamaHitlerStalin freakoutery...

January 09, 2013

Santorum Continues Remembering Everything

...and learning nothing--and his most zealous supporters continue to be discernment-free partisans of the Thing...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

The Bourbon GOP

Remembering everything. Learning nothing: "In the debates and in sweeping rallies across the country, Mitt...

November 28, 2012

Over at the American Conservative…

Bruce Bartlett describes his experiences trying to break into the epistemic closure bubble of the...

November 15, 2012

Andrew Bacevich…

...who has personally paid in blood for the adventurism of chickenhawks among the Ruling Class...

November 09, 2012

It may come as a shock…

but I tend to be idiosyncratic, colloquial and casual in my speech when I blog. ...

November 07, 2012

Well that didn’t take long

Somebody wrote to emotionally defecate on me: "so how do you feel now, Mark, knowing...

November 02, 2012

Disconnect on the Right

So for years now, I've been listening to the panic-mongering about our atheist Komminiss devout...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Quote of the Day

A reader writes: "This conscience voter phenomenon is so bizarre." Exhibit A in why I...

October 22, 2012

“Prolife Except When It Endangers the Political Life of the Father”

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive When...

October 17, 2012

For all Those “Realists” Out There

Here's some reality. The reason the GOP is not up in the polls by 15...

October 15, 2012

A perfectly respectable argument for Romney

...and one I am considering, from my good friend Dale Price: He wasn't even my...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

“Conservative Catholic” Zeal for the Culture of Death

The other day, we took a look at one of the great heros of human...

September 27, 2012

As the Thing that Used to be Conservatism Continues Its March Toward Suicide

various people are trying to figure out "What happened?" Two useful essays I have run...

September 25, 2012

And in Today’s Prolife Political Wife Beating News

House Republicans Pass Funding for Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and Regulation Forcing Catholics to Act Against...

September 24, 2012

Mitt Romney, Pro-Life CHAMPION!

TMZ has learned Mitt Romney's son Tagg -- who had twins this year through a...

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