While I continue to play with my promised post on social conservatism, I’m going to weigh in on Aaron’s question from yesterday (why aren’t more Americans angry about Congress’s pay raise?) because the answer(s) touch on a number of issues Republicans should think about for 2009. Very broadly, people aren’t angry because people aren’t involved. [...]
Posts on ‘December 28th, 2008’
Renewed Mideast Conflict Shows the Fragility of Progress
While there are early reports of hundreds of casualties in the latest round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians, the nature of the present flare-up is indicative of an evolution of politics west of the Jordan and northeast of Egypt. Instead of Israel being in the midst of conflict within both the Gaza Strip and [...]
“We Sell More Seats Than the Governor [Blagojevich]!”
Stumbled upon this today, and it was too good to not share. Apparently this comes from an ad in the Chicago Tribune. (originally from conservativeBrand)