Unqualified Offerings

Jesse Walker has a great piece on how
Assuming the Dems’ next nominee won’t be a self-described libertarian, what can he (*) do to make himself attractive to libertarian voters?
The short answer — and this applies to Republican candidates too — is: (a) Don’t be as bad as the other guy, and (b) Be actively good [...]

[posted by Leonard]
(In which I read NRO so you don’t have to.) As you may be aware, National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru just published a book, The Party of Death, about the the prolife movement and its opponents as he sees them. Most conservatives have touted Party warmly, and have, I think with some [...]

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi apparently really is dead. Gandalf pointed out that many are dead who deserve life. This won’t be one of those. An awful, murderous man – the kind who makes us hope there really is an afterlife with a Hell for the bad people. I doubt it will make much difference to the [...]

Up here they do dates in the “rational,” continental D/M/Y format. This has led to some adventures in database import that make for dull anecdote and tedious experience. Inspiration struck, and I began asking:
“When’s Canada Day?”
“July First.”
“When’s Christmas?”
“Um, December 25th . . . ”
“When’s New Year’s?”
“January First. Hunh?”
“So when you talk, you talk month-day, even [...]

Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch write that
Our entire constitutional system repudiates the notion that electing good men is a sufficient check on abuse of power. To preserve that system, this country sorely needs a resurgence of conservatives’ ”healthy skepticism.”
This will happen not long after we pry the conservatives’ sweaty hands from the levers of power. [...]