The Tea with Robert Gibbs was very irenic, but in an ingratiating way, not a productive one. Too often, people look at our (allegedly) coarsening civil discourse and conclude stark differences are the cause (true) and, therefore, we ought to get rid of the “extremes” (not true). The tea yesterday…

Did anyone else notice that the caption for the front page photo listing past speakers used “conservative” to describe Karl Rove, but “writer” to describe Seymour Hersh? The implication being, naturally, that Hersh has no political leanings, but is merely a “writer.” Hersh being the former Eugene McCarthy staffer and regular…

Well, for me at least. Some of you may already be done, but for those of us with exams left to go, best of luck! This basically wraps things up for us this academic year. We had a great string of articles this past year, with many thanks to Marc…

Here are two places you can watch Jonah Goldberg’s speech: http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2011/04/14/goldberg-explains-how-themes-from-his-liberal-fascism-book-apply-to-current-day-politics/ http://cjtv.carolinajournal.com/display_video.php?id=1157&type=4 Great speech by one of the nation’s most insightful commentators.

The budget proposed by Republican leadership in the General Assembly has come under attack recently because it reduces the allocation to Governor’s School by 100%- completely cutting its public support.  For the uninitiated, Governor’s School is a six-week, summer enrichment program for academically gifted public school students.  Under Democratic leadership,…

I was struck in the CR/YD Debate last week by the number of times members of the YD team would say things like “Democrats are on the right side of history” or “Republicans are again on the wrong side of history.”  Mr. Jeff DeLuca was especially fond of this refrain…