The Political Inquirer

Jim Manzi rips open Obama’s tax plans.  Financial conservatives everywhere cheer. 
Money quote: “Growing inequality and middle-class wage stagnation are big problems for America. But trying to re-regulate the economy and redistribute income is a cure worse than the disease. “
Eat your heart out, liberals.  I know big government makes everyone feel good, but it doesn’t [...]

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Macleans has an article about how Islamic countries are banding together to pass international anti-defamation laws through the UN.  I guess the Organiazation of the Islamic Conference is pissed about how the world criticizes theorcracies for their human rights violations and mistreatment of women.  If this gets much traction in the international circuit, all is [...]

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David Brooks rips on Obama’s speech.  Key Bit:  “But substantively, optimism without reality isn’t eloquence. It’s just Disney. “  Snap!
Whole text after the jump: 

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James Poulos offers some of the best commentary on the “citizen of the world” comment here. 
Here’s the key bit:
Our yearning for pan-human solidarity is an absurdity, the absurdity of the human condition, and the most utopian of all utopian ideas is the idea of a Brotherhood of Man: because the human race is not a [...]

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Ok, you McCainiacs, I’ve got a question for ya.
John McCain has withdrawn support for his own immigration bill, actively undermined the spirit of his own campaign finance reform bill, is wrong about climate change, and yesterday, McCain made a couple gaffes about the violence in Iraq.   Is the only reason people consider him a strong [...]

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I looked at the dissenting opinion, and  I’m curious if anyone can prove from the wording of the second amendment that the 18th century lawmakers intended for guns to be used for an individual’s self defense outside of any ‘militia related activity’.
Scalia’s opinion depends on court precedent and, it seems, an implied belief that the [...]

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As Reading noted, Obama failed to come through on his promise and accept public funding for his campaign.   Contrary to what some of Obama’s fan boys are thinking, this was not a selfless, positive move.  Obama took advantage of an opportunity, despite whatever promises he had made before.   That’s right.  For the Change candidate, winning [...]

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Besides his large base of individual donors, where does Obama get his money?  Does anyone have evidence that he takes from PAC’s, lobbyists, or other shady sources?

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Victor Davis Hanson claims that the mistakes leading up to and during this Iraq War are par for the course as far as American military history is concerned.    I think it’s a straw man argument meant to give Bush the benefit of the doubt.  It’s true that Iraq is not the single worst strategic mistake [...]

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Although the details are unclear, apparently Guillermo Vargas, a Costa Rican artist, used a suffering dog in an art exhibition last year. He paid some kids to catch a stray, tied it up on a short leash in an art gallery , and refused to give any food or water. Hundreds of visitors passed by [...]

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I’m a little bit tired of all of the overreaction to how the most recent presidential debate was handled by George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson.  Obama looked horrible, but not because of how ABC handled it or because the media is out to get him.  He just looked bad, and his answers were weak.  He [...]

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Writing for Salon Magazine, Rebecca Traister expressed her frustration with Obama’s over-zealous supporters and their collective contempt for Clinton.  Not all of the piece deals with the subtle sexism of the race, but Traister does spend a good portion of the article talking about it.  Here’s a cutting: 
Kristen Phillips, 28, and a master’s student at the University of New [...]

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George Will goes after those in the media who are making more of the Housing Crisis than they need to.  Will is one of my favorite political writers, and I always enjoy his attempts to calm others down.   I agree with him in that the Housing ”Crisis” so many complain about is overrated, although he could be [...]

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During this period of economic downturn, has the Fed acted wisely?  Five experts weigh in.
 
http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-03-08/grading-bernanke-a-symposium

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I worry that this blog spends its time arguing about petty quotes from the Clintons instead of debating issues to the benefit of all.  Maybe I am making a straw man argument, but a lot of the posts on this site focus on political gossip over which writers get agitated for approximately 5 minutes and [...]

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March 27, 2008
Conservatives More Liberal Givers
By George Will
WASHINGTON — Residents of Austin, Texas, home of the state’s government and flagship university, have very refined social consciences, if they do say so themselves, and they do say so, speaking via bumper stickers. Don R. Willett, a justice of the state Supreme Court, has commuted behind [...]

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Spencer Ackerman points out why an Obama presidency might be better than McCain, the alternative.  It basically comes down to two assumptions:  Obama will work to piss the world off less by utilizing diplomacy over force, and McCain is a neocon who has rarely disapproved of a bombing run. 
I’m not claiming to know that Obama [...]

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