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When Did I Become a Paleocon?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Tony | 0 Comments

Naked DC blogger Emily Zanotti Skyles recently joked on the DOA podcast that CPAC is a way for conservatives at that conference to “re-live the 1980′s.” The panel had been discussing CPAC’s move to (again) ban the gay Republican group GOProud. It’s times like this that I realize I am getting old. Once I was was over my initial offense, I tried to…

Book Review: “The Tyranny of Cliches” by Jonah Goldberg

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Tony | 0 Comments

Let me paint you a picture: You’re at some hipster gathering with your liberal (and more than likely leftist) friends and acquaintances. Inevitably, as they so often do for their own entertainment, a topic of controversy enters into what had been a polite conversation. Pick your poison, it doesn’t matter. You come armed with facts, statistics, maybe even some real world anecdotal…

Being Julia

Posted on May 7, 2012 by mvespa | 1 Comments

I awoke one morning last week to a hilarious new trend on Twitter surrounding a digital/fake American citizen named “Julia,” that was featured on BarackObama.com detailing how awesome life would be if Obama were reelected this upcoming November (Hence, shaping the narrative of the President’s new “Forward” re-election slogan). It also details how she is on the verge of a dismal…

Persona Non Grata: Why the Firing of John Derbyshire Matters

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Tony | 4 Comments

Less than two weeks ago, National Review Online announced that it was parting ways with long-time collumnist and self-professed “doomsayer,” John Derbyshire, regarding an article for Taki’s Webzine. Among the more egregious and indefensible assertions made by Mr. Derbyshire, were instructing his children to “avoid concentrations of blacks not known to you personally” and “stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.” In reading…

When Did I Become a Paleocon?

Book Review: “The Tyranny of Cliches” by Jonah Goldberg

Persona Non Grata: Why the Firing of John Derbyshire Matters

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