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POPSOn Democide Yes, a misnomer. substitute Fascicide, staticide, or Progressivicide.... whatever.
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POPSRepublicans and Conservatives Endorsing Barack Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review Michael Smerconish, Columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer
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POPS9 deli sandwiches honoring Obama victory
** “The Weather Underground Club” – a fiery combination of spiced pastrami, hot mustard, and pickled onions on jalapeno cheese bread. Be your own bomb! Fart Truth to Power!. From Stage Deli, 834 7th Ave, between 53rd and 54th St, New York, NY **“Saul Alinsky’s Famous Hot Corned Beef sandwich” — Not really corned beef, but shhh! We won’t tell if you wont! Comes with fries and gravy. Or so you think… From Sarge’s Deli, 548 3rd Ave, between 36th and 37th St, New York, NY ** “The Bernardine Dohrne Helter Skelter Sandwich” — salted prosciutto ham, aged and cured for 7 years, sliced thin and served atop a bed of shredded legal paper, tomato, and onion. Best eaten by poking the Pig in its belly with a fork. Wild! From Artie’s Deli, 2290 Broadway, at 83rd St, New York, NY **“The Chris Buckley Conservative Fish Fry” — Not really a sandwich. Or conservative, for that matter. In fact, it’s really just a filet-o’-fish from McDonald’s, its bun discarded and the patty itself stuffed into a
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POPSLeft-Wing And A Prayer ~ Mark Steyn
deficit fear has to take a second seat. I do think this is a time for a kind of very important dose of Keynesianism. I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money. Look, it's not difficult. Barack the Spreader wants to spread Joe the Plumber's wealth around. In fact, every American does that for himself every day of the week, every time he swings by Joe the Butcher, Joe the Baker, Joe the Candlestick Maker, Jolene the Waitress, Jolene the New York Gubernatorial Prostitute, whatever. The question is whether 300 million Americans spreading their wealth around can do it more effectively than Barack and Barney taking it unto themselves to spread it around. I don't find that hard to answer. If you disagree - if you believe in socialist redistribution from the dynamic sector of the economy to the sclerotic, incompetent and corrupt . . .
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POPSHe can't be that liberal. Can he? I think at this point, there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat. I do think this is a time for a kind of very important dose of Keynesianism. I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.
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POPSBuckley leaves National Review after Obama endorsement "Sadly, I think Christopher Buckley is merely the latest example of the 'conservative' avant-garde who has succumbed to a common temptation: Becoming more liberal is tantamount to becoming more open-minded. There is a palpable elitism among some of the conservative panjandrum," Lewis said. So does this make Lewis an anti-elitist elitist? elitist (n): One who despises people or things regarded as inferior, especially because of social or intellectual pretension
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POPSChristoper Buckley Bows out of National Review While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case. So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me. Thanks, anyway, for the memories, and here’s to happier days and with any luck, a bit less fresh hell.
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POPSSwift Satire gores both sides I think Jon Swift is one of the funnies guys in the blogosphere. He goes on to say: "But some conservative “intellectuals” like David Brooks subscribe to the canard that the conservative movement was defined by pointy-headed eastern elites like William Buckley, whose “entire life,” Brooks recently wrote, “was a celebration of urbane values, sophistication and the rigorous and constant application of intellect.....Brooks even goes so far as to claim that conservatives once valued “constant reading, historical understanding and sophisticated thinking.” We did? Since when? Does he honestly believe that the conservative movement was based on people who read books? Reagan wasn’t elected by the Harvard faculty. It was an angry mob tired of welfare queens and pinko fellow travelers selling us out to the Soviet Union that put him in office."
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POPSA Conservative For Obama I saw this clipped earlier, but I didn't realize the gravity of the endorsement. Wow, a publisher of the National Review saying, "But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. "
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POPSPaglia Sees Frontier Feminism In Palin Camille Paglia thought the election was over after Hussein's stadium speech. Then McCain changed everything. Paglia is the person Bill Buckley should have been debating, not that pretentious oaf, Galbraith.
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POPSAlexander Solzhenitsyn is Dead He was the greatest witness against the horrors of Stalinism and the system of gulags and slave labor camps in the USSR. Not long after moving to the US, he critiqued the materialism of the west. In the end, he seemed to be something of Tolstoyan theocrat. His book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" had a big impact on me in my youth. His interview with William F. Buckley on the old Firing Line series, if you can find it, is not to be missed.
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