Frequent breast beater and all-around intellectual marshmallow David Brooks has touched off a real foofaraw, if not an outright hullabaloo, around the internet with his recent post for the New York Times, What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?, arguing that the rule of “us”, that horde of Ivy League educated sissy britches who hold…
Tag: Mona Charon
Al Gore, A Touch of Class
Back in the day, I was never an Al Gore guy, though I certainly saw him as preferable to either George Bush or Bill Clinton. Al was Al, a stolid, earnest “idealist”, whose every ideal required a costly, centralized government program to bring it into being. The fact that such “solutions” rarely did much more…
Mona Charon, speaking truth to Republicans
Kudos to the National Review, which I generally do not like, for publishing Mona Charon’s column, “Shades of Presidential Scandals Past”, which tosses more than a few solid punches at the “Move along, folks, move along, nothing to see here, move along” approach being fostered and foisted by most of her compadres at NR regarding…
Mona Charon, speaking truth to Republicans
Kudos to the National Review, which I generally do not like, for publishing Mona Charon’s column, “Shades of Presidential Scandals Past”, which tosses more than a few solid punches at the “Move along, folks, move along, nothing to see here, move along” approach being fostered and foisted by most of her compadres at NR regarding…
The wrong way to do minority outreach? To do it in the National Review!
Mona Charon has a nice piece–“Not the way to do minority outreach”–gently chiding Donald Trump for making a speech ostensibly intended to persuade blacks to vote for him by giving a speech before a virtually all-white audience in West Bend, Wisconsin, a virtually all-white suburb of Milwaukee, 40 percent black and the scene of rioting…