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The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Con

Sarah Palin may appear an earthy cookie-baker, but the cutesy provincialism neither advances nor represents conservatism. Rather than garnering public trust, the hockey mom routine has made her primetime laughingstock.
The winks, insipid buzzphrases (“You betcha!”), and muddled policy perscriptions show Palin to be fatally flawed and not of, for, or by the real right.
Cursory [...]

The Great Debate Over Sarah Palin Pro

Pro:
Not long ago, I was at a dinner with a couple; a professor and his wife. When they discovered that I was a conservative, and that on top of that I like Sarah Palin, the wife exclaimed: “Sarah Palin is a bitch! And I never, ever use that word.” This from a woman [...]

The Street

Greedy, money-grubbing, arrogant. These are a few of the many insults bandied about by President Obama and his media allies to describe the scapegoat du jour: Wall Street bankers.
Similar epithets can be heard all over this campus, spat by aggrieved students and professors, their faces flushed with the venom of self-righteousness. These loudmouths [...]

All for one, one for all; Government for – none!

An acquaintance once said, “The more money I make, the less I care about people.” This ‘insight,’ he explained, informs his conservatism.
It was to me totally insensible. Conservatives do not not care about people. Opposition to welfarism and to the high taxes that end up funding dole programs do not signal a [...]

Dude, Where’s My Change?

November 5, 2008. Standing on a broad stage in Chicago, surrounded by roaring crowds, president-elect Barack Obama announces: “Change has come to America!”
Sixteen months later, here we are, with growing malaise and sinking approval ratings. Dude, where’s my change?
Obama arrived as a modern-day messiah come to set his people free, leading Hillary Clinton to quip [...]