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I have been reading Hot Air for a long time by now. Especially after Ed Morrissey joined the Malkin-crew, the site became one of, if not the first, my favorite conservative websites.

As such, it has greatly surprised me – in a good way – that Hot Air has become even better in recent months. How? By creating its GreenRoom page, where a carefully selected group of bloggers are allowed to publish posts. One of them is a blogger who goes by the name of Doctor Zero.

Doctor Zero has, in my humble opinion, become the best conservative blog-columnist around – I say blog-columnist, and not bloggers, because his posts aren’t blogposts as much as they are columns. Whenever Zero (I don’t know the blogger’s gender) publishes one of his/her columns, the comment section is overrun with comments praising it. And rightly so. Every column touches upon at least one profound conservative truth, often more.

For an example, I suggest you read this Zero-column. As usual, it’s almost perfectly written and incredibly inspiring to conservatives.

The frustrating part? Whenever I read Zero’s columns, I realize just how much I still have to learn about writing.

  1. Posted by Interested
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    Interested probably the most astute part.
    Too many moderate voters would reply that forcing people to live without health care, or allowing the Earth to be spoiled by greedy businessmen, because of an old piece of paper written by dead white guys in powdered wigs is ridiculous.
    Indeed. The left we can excuse for their hatred of business due to their ideals - however misguided. But the middle is far too sympathetic to the heart string pulls - even if the pulling at heartstrings are for political gain.
  2. Michael Merritt Apparently they must be. As I recall, conservatives also thought they could get away with it. And it did have an effect. What was "death panels" if not pulling at heart strings? Invoking an image of grandma standing before faceless government cretins who would pronounce her no longer eligible for care seems to me to be aiming for the heart. Or any time a new tax or spending program is discussed and bringing up the burden to the next generation. Actually, this is one that is co-opted by both parties whenever they need a reason to oppose some kind of spending that is anathema to their ideology. For my own part, I usually take health care-related stories as indication that the system is screwed up, not that we need a public option.
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