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TNR breaking open George Allen’s past?
Via Bloodless Coup, I see Political Wire is reporting that Ryan Lizza of The New Republic is about to put George Allen’s ugly racial history on the national radar screen: Political Wire received an advance copy of a New Republic profile of Sen. George Allen (R-VA) in which author Ryan Lizza finds many of Allen’s
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Name the next conservative blockbuster
In honor of Ramesh Ponnuru’s The Party of Death, I’d like announce a contest for aspiring Regnery editors out there: What’s the title of the next conservative blockbuster? We already have Liberal Fascism from Jonah Goldberg; Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors from Ann Coulter; Persecution and Absolute Power by David Limbaugh, and The
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Duke lacrosse roundup from Herald Sun
Durham’s Herald Sun newspaper includes a few new tidbits in today’s article on the Duke lacrosse case. First, the New Black Panther Party is getting involved: An official with the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense said the black nationalist organization is providing security for the woman who has accused Duke lacrosse players of
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Democratic gas price demagoguery
Democrats are the only hope for instituting a substantial gas tax hike and offsetting income tax cut, a combination that former Bush economist Greg Mankiw said “may be the closest thing to a free lunch that economics has to offer.” But, sadly, they are giving into election-year pressures to demagogue the gas price issue, and
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Bush’s answer to everything: More PR
President Bush’s decision to bring in Tony Snow as the White House spokesperson is being hailed by some as a rare admission of error. But it’s not. Instead, it’s indicative of the President’s leadership style, which treats failures of substance as failures of public relations. Every time things have gone wrong in this administration —
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Malcolm Gladwell on Duke lacrosse IDs
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point and Blink, makes a good point about the identifications by the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case: [T]he Duke case is an example of another, even more problematic aspect of eyewitness identifications, and that is that we aren’t particular good at making them across races. There is
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Ramesh Ponnuru’s The Party of Death
Ramesh Ponnuru is a nice guy, but I have to agree with Andrew Sullivan about Ponnuru’s new book The Party of Death: I haven’t yet read Ramesh Ponnuru’s book, “The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.” Ponnuru is a highly intelligent and reasonable writer, although his
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“Naughty” Naseef’s campaign for judge
Here in Durham, someone named Robert “Naughty” Nauseef is running a bizarre campaign for a seat on the district court. I don’t know about you, but I’m not usually inclined to vote for judges named “Naughty”…
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Ken Mehlman hypes the Democratic boogeyman
In an email to supporters yesterday (PDF), GOP chairman Ken Mehlman returns to his party’s tactic of motivating the base by promoting fears of Democratic impeachment. Here’s the key question from the “Republican Grassroots Voices Survey”: 3.) If the Democrats win control of the Congress in 2006, what is the one thing you would be
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Joel Kaplan forgets the “Brooks Brothers” riot
Amnesia can apparently strike at any time: Though the Senate unanimously confirmed Mr. Kaplan, Mr. Lautenberg also grilled him about reports that he was on hand for the so-called Brooks Brothers protest in November 2000, when a large group of Bush supporters — many in business attire — stormed a room in Florida where supervisors