Showing posts with label conservative element. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservative element. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

"American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is."

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Here's the pitch. The belief that Russia is on our side in the war against secularism and sexual decadence is shared by a host of Ame...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Jeff Gahan, too: "Conservatives blame the poor because the alternative is to blame capitalism."

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Forget capitalism and religion. Kool-Aid-ism is the dominant ideology of our age, and it can be consumed by almost anyone -- and is, in ...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Obama in Flint: "The speech in Boston was a pillow. This was a brick through a window."

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Leave it to Charlie Pierce to reach the heart of the matter. Don't Let Trump's Taco Bowl Distract You From Obama's Speech on F...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Conservatives to Padgett: "The heaviest road users are the ones who get the biggest subsidies."

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Narcissus, still gazing at that pesky erection. Wanna know what's really funny? The Padgett-led  heavy trucking coalition seek...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

"If you (literally) disintegrate a society’s physical setting, as sprawl has done, you tend to disintegrate its culture as well."

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Who are the local conservatives and Republicans who'd like to join the dialogue about these purple topics? I can think of plenty of th...
Monday, June 22, 2015

"American conservatives aren’t necessarily racists, but they are invariably anti-anti-racist."

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Ironically, only moments before viewing this article, I was making a point to a friend as to why the city of New Albany typically refuses to...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Lakoff: " Poor conservatives vote their identity as conservatives, not their lack of material wealth."

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Long but  recommended reading for Chairman Adam ... to be fair, for all of us on the "left" side of the aisle.  ... George Lako...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

"The Conservative Case Against the Suburbs".

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But is Dave Matthews reading? The Conservative Case Against the Suburbs , by Charles Marohn ( The American Conservative ) In his recent...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Not you, too: "Why Conservatives Should Love the City."

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That's okay, my conservative brethren. Don't pay any attention to this. Please continue living just the way you are, where you are...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Conservatives eat their own.

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And there's nothing wrong with that. Right-Wing Author Abandons Cultural Populism, Decries ‘White Trash’ , by Michelle Goldberg ( The...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Hobknobb Roasting Company location on State Street is closed.

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I'm not sure when the Hobknobb on State Street closed; I happened to notice the sign on the door while cruising past on Wednesday aftern...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Let's all take a Crappo -- please, take him.

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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Four more years, because Bain-think is Budweiser-think with fewer letters.

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In many varied ways, 2008 was the worst year of my life in purely personal terms, and just prior to the presidential election that autumn, p...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Mittled's core platform, at a glance.

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To paraphrase Mencken, conservatism is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Monday, August 13, 2012

"It’s no wonder that Mr. Romney does not want to take full responsibility for his running mate’s ideas."

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A white conservative (Romney) picks another white conservative (Ryan), and the nation yawns. Conservatism ... it's just SO damned white,...
Monday, July 30, 2012

"Many conservative Americans have seen their livelihoods threatened by the very neoliberal economics their party seeks to extend."

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See: Chickens, Colonel Sanders, et al. The world as seen by Republicans, in a land of myth and amnesia; US conservatives are increasingly...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Taibbi: "This is where the Republican Party is now."

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I'd dearly love to hear Ed Clere and Ron Grooms explain how this analysis is (a) incorrect, and/or (b) does not apply to them, or to the...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

"Prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn."

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Been to a city council meeting lately, George? The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left; Conservativism may be the ...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Kathleen Parker on Chris Buckley, National Review: "(Republicans) do not ... deserve to win this time, and someone had to remind them why."

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NAC has been following this story since Christopher Buckley's on-line Obama endorsement first broke. William F. Buckley was articulate ...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Republican conservatives? "The avatar, the exemplar, the paradigm" of intellectual dishonesty.

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Syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.'s ostensible target is Mitt Romney, but his description of "intellectual dishonesty" as...