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“What Lesson Was Learned?”: For Republicans, It’s About “The How” Rather Than...
So if the end of the fiscal crisis represents, as Ross Douthat calls it, a “Teachable Moment” for the GOP, what would that lesson, exactly, be? It mostly appears to be about strategy and tactics, not...
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“No Country For Old Tea Partiers”: Conservatives Who Caused The Shutdown Must...
Fareed Zakaria has a very sharp op-ed in the Washington Post this week dissecting conservatism’s longtime “diet of despair” and how conservatism’s traditional rhetoric of “decay, despair and decline”...
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“The Vote To Free The Hostages”: Unreasonable Conservatism Remains A Majority...
It was a foregone conclusion that the bill to end the manufactured fiscal crisis would sail through Congress once Ted Cruz foreswore a filibuster and John Boehner abandoned the “Hastert Rule.” The...
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“Pete Sessions And The GOP’s ‘Immoral’ Conservatism”: Allowing People To Die...
“It is immoral.” That was the judgment of Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican and committee chairman, on the House floor this week. But the subject of his sermon wasn’t the Assad regime in Syria or...
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“The Fix Isn’t In”: Eric Cantor And The Death Of A Movement
How big a deal is the surprise primary defeat of Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader? Very. Movement conservatism, which dominated American politics from the election of Ronald Reagan...
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“A Channel For The Conservative Id”: Fox News, Where Conservative Senior...
There’s something almost endearing about the fact that in an age when there are literally millions of images and videos of humans without their clothes on available instantaneously to anyone with an...
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“Flood The Government With Lawsuits”: Charles Murray And The Right’s Plan To...
Early last week, a watchdog website hosted by People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, reacted with alarm to a political-legal strategy outlined in a new book by the conservative social...
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“What I Learned From Beau Biden”: Our Politics Of Recrimination Does A...
Between now and the 2016 election, we need to have a searching national debate over family values. It will not be about whether we as a country are for them. We are. What’s required is a grounded and...
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“What It Says About The Republican Base”: There Is No Liberal Donald Trump...
Talking about Donald Trump can be an exhausting and pointless exercise: no sooner does he say or do one outrageous thing than he follows it up with another (the latest being an appalling and viciously...
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“The Debate Between The Two Sides Got Lost”: What Happened To The Battle For...
Remember when the 2016 presidential primary on the GOP side was going to be a “battle for the soul of the Republican Party”? At the conclusion of a period of frustration and tumult, with Barack Obama’s...
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“The Governors Exact Their Revenge On Marco Rubio”: Governors Against Callow...
There was a time when Republican governors were not all that different from Democratic governors. The politicians from both parties who ran the states tended to be a pragmatic lot. They were...
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“Their Own Call For Reflection”: It’s Not Just Republicans; Progressives Also...
Obama Derangement Syndrome is striking Republicans once again. To avoid having to answer for the rise of Donald Trump, they want to hold the man in the White House responsible for the emergence of a...
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“It’s Not Your Imagination”: North Carolina Cracks Down On Local...
North Carolina’s state legislature wasn’t supposed to be in session this week, but the Republican-led chambers rushed back to work for a special, taxpayer-financed session, focused solely on one key...
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