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Ken Silverstein at Harper’s makes the case that Mitt Romney is a “fabricated conservative.”
For at least two decades, our political landscape has been dominated by consultants; but there is no presidential campaign this year whose success or failure so will depend on media managers, marketing strategists, and political gurus as that of Mitt Romney.
Well, my […]

I’m apparently not the only one who found Gerson’s column this morning so irritating.  Over at the Corner, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Krikorian, and Andrew Stuttaford each take turns thwacking him.
Mark: “I’m a relatively big-tent kind of guy, but Gerson’s not even within sight of the tent.”
Andrew: The column is a “combination of straw men argumentation […]

Micheal Gerson, in today’s Washington Post, says that conservatism is perched precariously between two competing schools of thought. On one hand, he says, there’s the libertarian strain, that which upholds “individual economic choice” and is devoted not just to some nebulous view of limited government, but to actively opposing government.
He doesn’t think much of […]

Word is that the vote on the Law of the Sea Treaty will be today around 11:00am. Be sure to watch this great video and then send it around to your friends. (Hat tip to Rob Bluey of Heritage Foundation and Bluey Blog)

Charlie Rangel filled some column inches in the Wall Street Journal defending his tax plan yesterday. He claims that his plan would “stop the middle class tax raid.” So it’s a boost for the middle class! Right? Well, maybe not. Economist Greg Mankiw says the biggest beneficiaries of the tax cut would […]

One of the problems people on the right have with health care is looking as if they’re defending the current system as some sort of pure, perfect marvel. It’s not.  One of the biggest problems that health insurance is currently tied to employment because of the tax breaks employers get on health insurance purchases.  That’s […]

Thanks to our friends over at Competitive Enterprise Institute for sending along some great arguments against the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). I know many of you are actively calling your senators about this, so please be sure to read the points below and keep the phone calls going!
The United Nations Law of the […]

Here is the YouTube video from MSNBC’s The Situation with Tucker Carlson.

Our friends over at NewsBusters.org have a new conservative comedy show.  Bravely going where others have gone before and failed, NewsBusters has found a winning format.  Watch them all and share them with your friends.

My friends in The Young Conservatives of Texas often send me updates from the front lines of their battles with the left on college campuses. Here is a round-up of events and news from the best state in the U.S.
1. Chris Simcox returned to The University of Texas at San Antonio to talk about illegal […]