“Political ideologies” on The Daily Caller

Proof that you don’t have to live in New York or Hollywood to be a left-wing knothead was the decision by a Chicago high school to boycott a basketball tournament in Arizona because someone — the principal perhaps — opposed Arizona’s immigration policy. A policy, as we all know, that is the mirror image of federal law. Then, having shown the world what they think of those racists in Arizona, they went off to play an exhibition game in a country that serves as a role model for freedom-loving people everywhere . . . China! (more)

By now, it is common knowledge that Vivian Schiller was forced to resign last week as CEO of NPR because of the embarrassing comments made by Ron Schiller (no relation), NPR’s fundraising chief. The fascinating part of this story, however, is the unvarnished liberal worldview Mr. Schiller displayed when he was asked for his opinions on such topics as the current state of the Republican Party, the Tea Party movement, and academia. (more)

In Monday’s New York Times, David Brooks criticizes the politics surrounding the ongoing debate about the size and focus of government. (more)

What if I told you that a single one of your genes and your high school popularity could predict your political persuasion? Faster than you can say, “liberalism is a birth-defect,” people are reading what they want into a new study. (more)

I recently ran across a website for the Communist Party of Houston, Texas. In response to the midterm elections this week, one of the Communists wrote: (more)

Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation (more)

For the greater part of the early conservative movement, all conservatives, whether they were libertarians, individualists, or the later social, paleo and fiscal conservatives, had one overarching issue, one common threat that united them despite their differences: the threat of communism.  That threat served as a focal point, an issue that everyone in the movement could agree on.  This was the common cause responsible for the intellectualism of William F. Buckley, Jr. and the founding of the National Review, the founding of conservative youth groups like Young Americans for Freedom and the Goldwater and Reagan Revolutions of 1964 and 1980. (more)

Paul Kengor is the author of the new book, “DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.” The political science professor and executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College has previously authored such books as “God and Ronald Reagan” and “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” (more)

If you talk to most liberals, they’ll tell you that conservatives are insensitive, callous and selfish.  To their own detriment, leftists tend to believe that those on the right simply don’t care about the less fortunate.  While this doctrine has been embedded in left-leaning gospel for decades, research and reality paint a very different picture — one that has perplexed many of the left’s self-proclaimed “compassionates.”  With one of the worst economic downturns in American history still impacting the lives of millions of Americans, understanding this subject is paramount. (more)

Playing the part of Democratic rock star last week, President Barack Obama flew to a star-studded Hollywood party to raise $1 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Every election season Democratic candidates make a beeline to Hollywood for campaign contributions. This is understandable given Hollywood’s long-running romance with the liberal left. (more)

Barack Obama’s precipitous rise to the White House and his awesome expansion of federal power are frequently explained either as the products of failure or as crucial elements in progressivism’s undoing of American Constitutionalism. While each account is not exclusive of the other, both seek an explanation for the challenges posed by Obama’s presidency to self-government properly understood. The former wagers that the distorting effects of Bush’s foreign policy, a badly flawed Republican Party, and the 2008 market crash were crucial to his mastery of fortune. President Obama stands as the accidental leader. The comforting thought is that as political prospects for Obama have grown dimmer, the repeal of Obama’s mandate to govern is surely just around the bend of the Potomac. We conservatives can almost see it. Alternatively, other more trenchant observations point towards the ongoing corruption of America’s founding spirit. Within this tale of deformation, occurring for well nigh a century, President Obama represents a fresh and dramatic episode in government expansion. (more)

As a self-defined “mainstream conservative,” it is no wonder Michael Gerson is “strangely disoriented” by the Tea Party movement.  Whenever conservatives put a qualifier in front their name, it is often followed by a dismissal of all others not quite so enlightened as themselves. (more)

An accredited course on conservatism at the University of Virginia debuting this fall could set a trend on campuses across the country, organizers say. (more)

The conservatives’ war with David Frum is once again in the news (or at least the blogosphere). The latest skirmish involves John Hawkins, who has taken to his blog at Right Wing News to explain why he excluded Frum’s website, FrumForum, from Blogads Conservative Hive. Hawkins insists that neither Frum nor his website is conservative. (more)

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville (more)

From the micro-donation platform first popularized by Howard Dean in 2003 to the million-strong Barack Obama Facebook page to the huge audience of the Huffington Post, liberals have been the dominant political force on the internet since the digital revolution began. (more)

I have to admit, for a while I enjoyed watching MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow humiliate and embarrass Rand Paul when he tried to explain why he did not support the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the seminal legislation that forbade racial and other discrimination in restaurants and other businesses and facilities that were open to the public. (more)

On Immigration, Arizona’s Law is Right and Proper (more)

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