When commenting on Patterico’s Pontifications, I am styled “The libertarian, but not Libertarian, Dana”, since one of his main writers is named Dana. The site host was previously a Republican, and certainly a conservative, but he left the GOP when Donald Trump started to make headway toward the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and became one […]
If someone was asked to put names to a list of neoconservatives in the United States, Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, and Norman Podhoretz might come to mind. Irving Kristol was an editor and publisher who served as the managing editor of Commentary magazine, founded the now-defunct magazine The Public Interest, and was described by Jonah […]
In October of 1936, Dale Carnegie published the self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People. In 2011, it was number 19 on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential books. It is a book that Dr David Shafran has apparently not read. ‘Selfish or stupid.’ Rejecting COVID vaccine puts healthcare workers in […]
What is fascism? The term is bandied about so much, but it does actually mean something. From the Encyclopedia Britannica: Fascism Robert Soucy Professor Emeritus of History, Oberlin College. American historian specializing in French fascist movements (1924-39), European fascism, and 20th-century European intellectual history; French fascist intellectuals… Fascism, political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts […]
I recently mentioned my good friend Amanda Marcotte, and suggested that she might have a case of #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. Miss Marcotte, ex- of Texas and ex- of Brooklyn, now resides somewhere in South Philadelphia,[1]No, I don’t know her exact address, and wouldn’t publish it if I did. but, for all of her voluminous writings on Salon, […]
The Israelis made a huge mistake in 1967-68. When they conquered Gaza, the Sinai, Judea and Samaria, they should have decided, right then, that if they wanted to keep that territory, that they needed to round up and expel every last Arab living in those lands. It would have been harsh, it would have been […]
One of the better, but sadly more neglected, blogs out there is Donald Douglas’ American Power: Afghanistan Bomb Attack on Girls Highlights Threat to Women’s Education by Donald Douglas | May 10, 2021 Things are going badly in Afghanistan. And at almost 20 years, I doubt the U.S. could do more to secure the country, […]
Being older than dirt — I turn 68 this coming Earth Day — I can remember the politics in the United States over the War in Vietnam. #NeverTrumper and neoconservative Max Boot, a Washington Post columnist, knows something about it as well. Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal could be the first step to a Taliban takeover Opinion […]
On The Pirate’s Cove, the commenter currently styling himself Elwood P Dowd wrote: We were responding to Kye who had typed: And I’d love to hear the names of conservatives who wanted war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some Republicans, many, many Democommies but no conservatives. The invasion of Iraq was a Republican project. If Republicans […]