Tag Archives: Jonah Goldberg

The Trouble With Ron Paul’s Defense

By Jonah Goldberg The New York Times has an interesting front page piece on Ron Paul’s relationship with the racists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis in his coalition (sorry, but whatever you think of Lew Rockwell, Stormfront and David Duke certainly deserve such labels). His three defenses are: 1) He didn’t have direct knowledge of the really [...]

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How Daily Kos Got It Wrong on Weinergate, And How The NY Times Revisionism Clarified It

The chips have fallen on Weinergate, and the crocodile tear presser from Weiner confirmed them all along. Before this event, the prominent left blogging cites were standing behind their Weiner, and Daily Kos cornered the market. The article titled “Breitbart’s #Twitterhoax – What We Know Now” follows on the ‘Red herring’ that Rep. Weiner attributed [...]

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The Die Is Cast

Republicans need to fight to stay alive. By: Jonah Goldberg Alea iacta est. That’s what Julius Caesar proclaimed as he crossed the Rubicon River in 49 B.C. It means, “The die is cast.” By crossing the Rubicon with his army — against Roman law — Caesar guaranteed a head-on conflict with the overconfident Roman ruler [...]

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Their Terrorism Problem — And Ours

By Jonah Goldberg When the Times Square story first broke there was a part of me that said, “Man, I hope it’s not some white militia nutjob.” When I saw the news this morning that it was a Pakistani, the same small part of me was relieved. I don’t want to speak for many conservatives [...]

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If We Europeanize, Europe Is in Trouble

My seven-year-old daughter has a great lifestyle. She has all of her clothes and food bought for her. She goes on great vacations. She has plenty of leisure time. A day doesn’t go by where I don’t look at her and feel envious of how good she’s got it compared to me. But here’s the [...]

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Health Care Hell

I’m pretty sure someone in Dante’s Inferno is condemned to spend eternity listening to C-SPAN panels on community rating. By:  Jonah Goldberg The time for talk is over. So proclaimed the most talkative president in modern memory. I can’t remember when Barack Obama said that. Maybe it was during the first “final showdown” on health [...]

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Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due

JONAH GOLDBERG Who gets to claim responsibility for success in Iraq? Joe Biden? ‘Victory has a hundred fathers,” John F. Kennedy said, “and defeat is an orphan.” By that standard, George W. Bush has won the Iraq war. Last month, Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed on CNN’s Larry King Live that the peaceful transition to [...]

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Health-Care Humdrum

JONAH GOLDBERG It reminded me of that old Monty Python skit where British soldiers are equipped with the world’s funniest joke, a joke so funny that even to hear it guarantees you’ll die laughing. The British army translates the gag into German (different translators for each word so as to prevent their own deaths) and [...]

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Why ‘ObamaCare’ is Failing

In his article, Jonah Goldberg uses the phrase, “astoundingly incompetent” to describe the Obama administration. I have been using that word, incompetent, for months to describe the Obamanistas as well. Their attempts to demonize American citizens who legitimately oppose this administration’s ruinous policies as Nazis, cranks, crackpots, bullies and racists is so sophomoric as to [...]

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