A Tea Party with Palin & My 7th Grade Girlfriend
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 7th, 2010 5:30 am by HL
A Tea Party with Palin & My 7th Grade Girlfriend
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
I logged onto Facebook to read Sarah Palin's latest posts. Thursday morning she had 1,260,892 fans. Facebook randomly features six fans or friends on someone's page. One of the six fans featured that morning was, by chance, my 7th grade girlfriend.Palin has gotten some heat lately for headlining the National Tea Party Convention, underway today in Nashville. The convention costs $549 to attend or $349 for only the lobster-and-steak banquet, where Palin will give the keynote address. Some conservatives saw the costs, combined with Palin's $100,000 speaking fee, as unbefitting a…
Toyota’s Blind Spot
Matthew DeBord, New York Times
Los AngelesWhat lessons should the carmaker have learned from recall fiascoes of decades past? TOYOTA is in serious trouble. The Japanese juggernaut should be celebrating its recent ascension to the top spot among global automakers. Instead, it is slogging though a multistage recall of millions of its most popular vehicles, a situation that wasn’t much improved by Friday’s awkward, contentious press conference with Akio Toyoda, the company’s president (and the founder’s grandson). Managing spin, as is becoming glaringly apparent, is not something that…
Why Are Liberals So Condescending?
Gerard Alexander, Washington Post
Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, all the appeals to bipartisanship notwithstanding, President Obama and other leading liberal voices have joined in a chorus of intellectual condescension.It's…
