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My interview with Erik Kain has been getting a fair amount of attention; Erik emailed to let me know it was linked by Fark.com and other high-traffic sites. Going by Tweetdeck’s search results, there was some Twittering too. Andrew Sullivan linked to it at Daily Dish, with these comments about ...
Look, ma — I’m controversial! The Evolution of Blogging: An Interview with Charles Johnson. (Erik Kain and I conducted this interview through email over the course of several weeks.)
The far right fanatics who run “Conservapedia” have a new project: they’re planning to rewrite the Bible to get rid of all of that liberalism and socialism: Conservative Bible Project. Yes, really. Here’s an example of the kind of stuff they think needs to be excised from the all-new conservative ...
Bill Moyers (I know, I know, don’t even start) interviews Sam Tanenhaus, author of The Death of Conservatism — a book that touches on many of the same themes that have been recent topics of heated discussion at Little Green Footballs. Set aside 30 minutes to watch this; it’s worth ...
The increasing stridency of the US right is being noticed on the other side of the Big Pond: The Civil War On the U.S. Right. With the defeat of Bush, the U.S. Right wing blogosphere has gone nuts, and have started to slaughter each other. It is a tragic ...
Britain, conservatism, GOP, Right Wing, kooks, Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, Nirthers
At Iowahawk, it’s the return of cherished conservative columnist/yachtsman T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII: I Daresay It Is Time We Deal With the Mutineers Aboard the S.S. Conservatism. Much has been written about the fate of the conservative movement in the months since last I corresponded with you. I ...
Sure enough, after my post yesterday on respecting the Constitution and opposing theocracy, the hate mail started pouring in, from self-labeled “Christians.” There are four of them this morning, but I’ll just post this one because the others are banal and uninteresting. (The contact form has an explicit notice: “Messages ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the ...
conservatism, GOP, Science, social conservatism, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Constitution
P. J. O’Rourke has one of the best election postmortems I’ve read so far: We Blew It. In how many ways did we fail conservatism? And who can count that high? Take just one example of our unconserved tendency to poke our noses into other people’s business: abortion. Democracy—be ...
P. J. O'Rourke, conservatism, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Democracy