Megan McArdle sums up the dilemma progressives face in trying to force through health care reform using single-party dominance. Quite simply, the “power to the people” pose of post-modern progressivism is increasingly exposed as a sham, and the progressive agenda revealed as fundamentally elitist — they know better than you what is good for you.| MORE ›
Gay rights activists are growing frustrated with President Obama regarding his failure to move on abolishing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that bars homosexuals who admit their orientation from continuing to serve in the military. It is hard to fault them.| MORE ›
PoliSnark assesses the threat as low. And lame too.
Charles Johnson and LGF did great work in exposing the CBS plot to use forged documents to influence the 2004 election. But since then, LGF reads like a combination between the photo essays at Althouse and a transcript of a disintegrating middle school clique.| MORE ›
Former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis has reacted to the Democratic Party’s loss in Massachusetts by advocating a return to a more moderate Democratic Party willing to actually work and compromise with Republicans in a way more nuanced than simply demanding that Republicans immediately support Democratic policy initiatives or be excluded and condemned for intransigence as “the party of ‘no’”.| MORE ›
TMV columnist Swaraaj Chauhan highlights an article at The Independent that criticizes “eco-nags” and “eco-bores” — the people who constantly preach at everyone in sight about their moral failures to comply with the endlessly growing list of criteria necessary to be tolerably “green”.| MORE ›
Moderate Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana is first to the post with a diagnosis of what’s going on with the sudden and precipitous collapse of Democrats’ electoral juggernaut — the abandonment of moderates in favor of the far-left fringe of the party.
In fact, Bayh’s diagnosis is both true and predictable.| MORE ›
A hallmark of the “new left” since the 1960s has been the degree to which personal choices — sexuality, procreation, titles, language — are subjected to political criteria.| MORE ›
Progressives often get overwrought at the merest mention of religion in a public place. But just as being paranoid doesn’t mean that “they” are not actually out to get you, from time to time there comes an expression of public religion that actually does violate the First Amendment prohibition that the government cannot endorse a particular religion.| MORE ›
In addition to being an overwhelming human tragedy, the earthquake in Haiti is exposing a serious policy problem — international aid does not address the real problem of weak states: A lack of infrastructure.
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