Monthly Archives: July 2012
Andrew Sullivan and the out-of-whack GOP: He helped build that, now he should help fix it
Andrew Sullivan’s latest essay is impressive in scope, yet woefully incomplete. I concur that the GOP faces internal trouble far more severe than most conservatives would acknowledge, but there’s more to the story. There are plenty of reasons conservatives should oppose Barack Obama in November, and it’s disappointing that Sullivan, who spent years building the theoretical foundations […]
Perspective on Penn State from a fellow ‘rabid fan’
As a lifelong fan of a school with a fan base with a similar degree of fanaticism as Penn State, the actions (and resulting coverup) that occurred in Happy Valley are eerily concerning. They took down Joe Paterno’s statue this weekend, and don’t be surprised to see his name quietly taken off the school library […]
‘We Are Penn State’ To Blame for Jerry Sandusky Raping Young Boys
Jared Sichel, a fellow writer at NextGen Journal (which I will no longer be affiliated with due to their refusal to publish this simple rebuttal), has written a column urging people to “Put the Pitchforks Down” and not end football at Penn State University. He writes, “The ‘football program’ didn’t rape anyone and the ‘football […]
Book review: ‘1493’ very interesting, yet ultimately disappointing
Some books are quite good – yet simply aren’t satisfying. Such is the case with Charles Mann’s “1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,” a sweeping history of the Columbian Exchange. Mann’s book, as the title suggests, examines what happened when the Old World collided with the New. And it’s a fascinating story. (Mann’s earlier […]
‘Til the Fever Breaks
I wanted to write a scathing critique of Andrew Sullivan’s essay from today. It was full of his customarily tiresome hackery — and the almost unbearable allusions to our current president as the cure to our present woes. But I can’t. Because at bottom, he’s correct. There is something fundamentally wrong about conservatism today — […]
Reconcile This! Why Republicans Shouldn’t Use Budgetary Reconciliation on ObamaCare
Greg Dolan has asked me to detail why I oppose the use of reconciliation to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), known to everyone else as ObamaCare (or, since Thursday, as “ObamaTax”). (See “Regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare, conservatives must play long game”) So I’ll give it an effort. But […]
Displaced Husker 