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Category Archives: The Back Channel
Old Right, New Glenn Beck?
March 25, 2009 – 9:18 pm
Writes Dylan Hales at Takimag.com:
“Richard (Spencer) is not the only person to notice the strange evolution of Glenn Beck from prototypical GOP-firster to Fed-bashing, anti-Patriot Act, populist. Though critics might be tempted to note that this sort of posturing was to be expected with a Democrat in the White House, in the case of Beck I’m [...]
SA@Takimag – War and the Neoconservative Mind
March 25, 2009 – 8:51 pm
Commenting in a new book on Abraham Lincoln, former president Jimmy Carter observed “(Lincoln) ignores the fact that the tragic combat might have been avoided altogether, and that the leaders of both sides, overwhelmingly Christian, were violating a basic premise of their belief as followers of the Prince of Peace.”
Neoconservative Ira Stoll, wrote of Carter’s [...]
SA@Takimag – What Happened to the War on Terror?
March 23, 2009 – 10:14 pm
From the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until the economy took a turn for the worse during the election, the “War on Terror” was the defining issue of the Republican Party. Standard conservative priorities like smaller government and fiscal responsibility and even social issues like abortion, gay marriage and gun rights, all took a backseat [...]
SA@Takimag – State of Revolution
March 23, 2009 – 7:35 am
The national movement for state sovereignty
If there’s one thing worse than urban elites at the New York Times, LA Times or the Washington Post who sneer at the mere hint of grassroots conservatism or populism, it’s Midwestern and Southern “fly over country” journalists who strive to emulate them. In a column entitled “New states’ rights fight [...]
Sanford in Today’s Wall Street Journal: “Why SC Doesn’t Want ‘Stimulus”
March 22, 2009 – 3:44 pm
Gov. Mark Sanford’s op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal:
“A recent report by the American Legislative Exchange Council ranked us 47th worst in the nation for annual debt service as a percentage of tax revenue. Our state dedicates nearly 11% of its annual tax revenue to paying debt. On top of that, South Carolina has another [...]
Can You Spot the Violent Extremist?
March 21, 2009 – 6:10 am
I find this picture mock-up amusing and accurate, posted by Michael Tuggle on the Rebellion blog. And to think, many would consider the first guy – the typical, bloodthirsty talk radio dupe, who never met a war he didn’t like – a “conservative.”
This is a reaction to this recent piece of nonsense from the “Missouri Information [...]
SA@Takimag – States’ Rights and The Left
March 19, 2009 – 9:22 pm
I know few liberals who support the War on Drugs, marriage “protection” amendments or the PATRIOT Act. In fact, if you talk to the most vocal Leftists about drug criminalization, gay marriage or the loss of civil liberties, their anti-government rhetoric can sound downright reactionary. “Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers” [...]
CBS News.com Reviews Tom Woods’ “Meltdown”
March 19, 2009 – 6:07 am
From CBSNews.com:
“Figuring out how we’ve reached this point is not easy. One choice is to blame laissez-faire policies, an argument that’s been invoked by everyone from notoriously pessimistic economist Nouriel Roubini and reporters at the New York Times to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
On the other hand, the number of pages of federal regulations has swelled, [...]
Taki Radio – Kirkpatrick Sale on Empire, Secession and the Modern State
March 18, 2009 – 6:16 pm
Taki’s contributor Dylan Hales joins me in a discussion with author Kirkpatrick Sale, director of The Middlebury Institute and contributor to countless publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Counterpunch and Mother Jones – just to name a few. Sale is the author of the landmark 1980 book Human Scale, [...]
The Atlantic on Sanford’s Appeal to the Alternative Right
March 15, 2009 – 9:56 am
The Atlantic’s Reihan Salam puts together the reasons why Gov. Mark Sanford continues to appeal to paleoconservatives, libertarians – or the “Alternative Right”:
“The American Conservative, founded by Patrick Buchanan to serve as a voice for anti-war, anti-immigration conservative nationalists, plays an interesting role in conservative politics. Though not as widely read as National Review, which aims to [...]