*The Stupid Party, by Doctor Zero
“Too much of the Republicans’ “Stupid Party” strategy is based on the mechanics of getting people with little elephants on their campaign signs elected. They view the election as the conclusion of a contest, when in fact it’s only the beginning. A successful Republican Party doesn’t have to be ideologically rigid, but it should insist on candidates who possess an intellectual foundation of conservative theory, and the ability to explain it at least as well as the thousands of people posting comments on conservative blogs.”
*The Right Returns? An NRO Symposium.
*The Armies of the Right, by Richard Fernandez.
*Don’t Bury GOP Yet, by Jonah Goldberg.
*The Paranoid Center: How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent, by Jesse Walker.
“It’s comforting to imagine that violence and paranoia belong only to the far left and right, and that we can protect ourselves from their effects by quarantining the extremists and vigilantly expelling anyone who seems to be bringing their ideas into the mainstream. But the center has its own varieties of violence and paranoia. And it’s far more dangerous than anyone on the fringe, even the armed fringe, will ever be.”
Please, read the whole thing.
*Neo-Socialism, at Conservative Wahoo.
*Why Obama Won’t Go to Berlin, by Rich Lowry.
*It pays to be a global cooling warming climate change “prophet.” Al Gore on track to become worlds first green billionaire.
*How to fix health-care, in ONE PAGE.
*Kind of cool: Bear kills two Islamic militants hiding in it’s den.
Absolutely Cool: Jonah Goldberg, demonstrating again why he’s my favorite pundit on the block.
“In related news, Barack Obama has announced that he is withdrawing from all existing treaties and security arrangements with the ursine community. Explaining his sharp break with the Bush administration’s policy of supporting overseas bear operations, president Obama said “bears are still our valued allies, but we can no longer pursue the arrogant policy of unilaterally supporting one member of the animal kingdom over another.”
He added, “Of course I believe in bear-exceptionalism, just as I believe in badger exceptionalism and tree sloth exceptionalism. But the days of a pecking order in the animal kingdom, with top of the food-chain predators and disrespected bottom-of-the-food-chain prey, are over.”
