I’m now watching the final part of a 5 (or 6… who can keep track) of the History Channel series “The Story of Us,” and it is testing my patriotism. I rarely watch History Channel and made an exception for this series, and I’m starting to regret that exception. Everything we have done as a [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Wilderness Years
Posted in Political Parties, Politics on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this month, in a response to this, a comment debate broke out when one responder expressed the belief that their is more intellectual rigor on the Right than the Left: People natter on about how close-minded and intellectually dead the right has become. And the nattering is on the mark if all you mean [...]
“Narrow-minded and Parochial”
Posted in Baseball, Cities, tagged Baltimore, Baseball, Kevin Cowherd, Mark Teixiera, New York, Orioles, Severna Park on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of ten reasons NOT to give up on the Orioles disastrous season, according to Kevin Cowherd: What’s more fun than booing Teixeira for spurning the Orioles for the bright lights of New York? Sure, it’s narrow-minded and parochial. But it’s a good kind of narrow-minded and parochial. Yup. Severna Park still hates him.
$uccess
Posted in Politics, tagged American Enterprise Institute, capitalism, economic, success on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I first read this op-ed late Saturday night, and had something of a mixed reaction. Content-wise, I found it repulsive – more on that in a minute. I also felt a bit of optimism based on the first paragraph: This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, [...]
What last night COULD mean (the good and the bad)
Posted in Libertarianism, Politics, Populism, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Arlen Specter, Bill Halter, Goldman Sachs, Jack Murtha, Joe Sestak, libertarian, Politico, populism, Rand Paul, Trey Grayson on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s election results definitely say something about the state of American politics – but what that is exactly isn’t quite clear. Here’s what is known: Rand Paul trounced Trey Grayson in the Kentucky Republican primary, Sestak upset Specter on the Democratic side in Pennsylvania, Blanche Lincoln will be forced to compete in a runoff with [...]
Heaven for Sale
Posted in Baseball, Media, Uncategorized, tagged Field of Dreams on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I know my birthday’s not for another 5 months, but for anyone who is looking for suggestions… From the Associated Press: DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The owners of the Iowa site where the “Field of Dreams” movie was filmed have put the place up for sale. Don and Becky Lansing say they love the land, [...]
More on faulty labels
Posted in History, Politics, Populism, tagged Charles Postel, Politico, populism, tea party on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More on the “populist” label the media attaches to the Tea Partiers (this by history professor Charles Postel in Politico): As today’s tea partiers shout their slogans to end the Federal Reserve, abolish the Internal Revenue Service and restore the gold standard, they seem to be lifting a page from the old [John Birch Society] [...]
“The Libertarian Mob”
Posted in Elitism, Libertarianism, Politics, Populism, tagged 1960s, 1980s, elite, home schooling, libertarianism, Mark Lilla, populism, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting article on the origins of the Tea Party Movement by Mark Lilla in the New York Times Book Review. He views it, as I do, as an extension of the twin libertarian revolutions of the ‘60s and ‘80s: The American public, meanwhile, was having no trouble accepting both revolutions and reconciling them in everyday [...]
