We were asked whether there really is such a thing as “judicial activism” over at the Arena, and whether conservatives–per this Ross Douthat column–are as guilty of practicing judicial activism as liberals are.
Tag Archives: Conservatives
Of Potato Chips And Strawmen
June 4, 2009 – 2:31 am
My latest New Ledger column is up. You can glean what it is about from the opening few paragraphs:
The End Of Conservatism?
May 20, 2009 – 1:59 am
Lee Edwards asks whether conservatism as we know it is coming to an end. The answer is likely “yes,” but conservatism as we know it is always coming to an end–which basically just means that it is always changing to meet the changing political conditions.
How NOT To Be A Good Critic . . . And Why Good Critics Are Needed
May 20, 2009 – 1:34 am
R.S. McCain details.
Farewell, Jack Kemp
May 3, 2009 – 1:02 pm
Last night, Jack Kemp, who served as a Congressman, HUD Secretary, and as Bob Dole’s Vice Presidential candidate in 1996, succumbed to cancer. His loss is keenly felt at a time when the Right is seeking to overhaul its intellectual leadership infrastructure in order to adapt and respond to the Obama era.
Arlen Specter, Democrat
April 28, 2009 – 1:14 pm
Arlen Specter has said repeatedly that Pat Toomey is too conservative to win in the state of Pennsylvania. After his switch to the Democratic Party today, it is a statement which will be definitively put to the test in 2010 in an election sure to mark a defining moment for the Republican Party, and what its future holds.
GOProud
April 14, 2009 – 12:12 am
If Republicans are going to get back into a position governance, they–we–will have to expand the base and make alliances with people our fathers’ Republican party may have thought outside the pale. GOProud is one such potential ally and they ought to be reached out to as soon and as insistently as possible.
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- As Sparks Fly, Democrats Close in On 216 for Health Care
- Stupak Abortion Language to be Added as “Tie Bar” to House Bill
- Bush, Obama, and the Intellectuals
- Health Bill Has Democrats Scrambling to Find More Votes
- Conan and Fox in Talks for Late Night Return
- Take Your Hands Off My Pork
- The Final Eleven
- Health Care: The Anti-Jobs Bill?
- Dodd’s Financial Rules Package Would Result in More Fed Muscle
- Credit Agency Warns U.S. and Others of Risk to Top Rating
MARKETS & POLICY
- Google Abandons the China Market
- Paul Krugman, Shadow Treasury Secretary, Misreads China
- Krugman’s War on China
- Following the Money on the Deficit
- Lesson From Moody’s: Rewrite the Social Contract
- Justice and the Prosecution of Lehman Execs
- Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
- Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
- Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
- Destroy the City to Save It
The WHIP
- Eleventh Hour Negotiations on Health Care
- Lest It Should Unman Me
- Obamacare’s End
- HCR Roundup: Slaughter Strategy Fallout
- How Obamacare Will Reshape the Workforce
- Endgame: Pelosi’s Health Care Gamble
- David Brooks Applies For a Job
- Obamacare’s Two Americas
- How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
- Cheney in Exile
HEGEMON
- Obama’s Israel Crisis
- Borderland: The Failure of the Virtual Fence
- Biden in Israel
- Love and Respect
- Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
- Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
- Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
- Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
- Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
- The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International
CHEQUER BOARD
- “Deem And Pass” Violates The Constitution
- Dear House Of Representatives
- Bart Stupak’s Moment Of Truth
- From Paul Ryan’s Mailbag
- Barbara Boxer Is In Trouble
- Scoring The Health Care Bill
- Could “Deem And Pass” Be Constitutionally Challenged?
- Tea Leaves
- What The Obama Administration Doesn’t Understand About The Middle East
- If Joe Biden Didn’t Exist, We Would Have To Invent Him
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