A recent op-ed by the New York Times’s compassionate conservative David Brooks demonstrates how to load an argument. In “Why Hagel Was Picked� Brooks complains about Americans choosing healthcare over military expenditures, arguing irrelevantly but emotionally that “voters and politicians care more about middle-class seniors than about poor children,� a contention he then expands by... Read More

On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,� which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian agenda.� For those who may have forgotten, “national greatness� was a theme that Brooks’s pals Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan discussed at length in... Read More

Three pieces appearing in today's Washington Post and New York Times reveal the fundamental problem in changing America's failed foreign policy. The voters who gave Barack Obama his margin of victory want an end to the continuous warfare that has characterized the post 9/11 world but have been sold down the river. The politicians and... Read More

Yesterday I commented on how Bill Kristol from his NYT bully pulpit was attempting to define the Republican Party malaise in his own terms, stating his belief that the conservative agenda has to be "refreshed" and "regenerated." The narrowing of the terms of the debate is deliberate and it avoids any critique of the policies... Read More

With all the chest-thumping and flag-waving the Republican Conventioncontributed to Western civilization last month, President Bush finally got the bounce in the polls that may well keep him in the White House for the next four years. If so, what will he and his party do and where will they move? In the New York... Read More