Daniel Oliver
The Death of Conservatism By Sam Tanenhaus (Random House, 118 pages, $17) With The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanenhaus establishes himself as one of America’s premier comic geniuses in the field of political commentary. There’s a guffaw waiting for you…
HOW DO YOU WATCH FREEDOM? How do you watch it grow? How do you watch it shrink? What’s the metric? What’s your metric? What do you think the metrics of your fellow citizens are? If you have no idea what…
Liberals are getting worried now. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has played the McCarthy card against Sarah Palin. Gov. Palin, expert moose hunter, is of course more than capable of looking after herself. But what does playing the McCarthy card…
In 1837, a henpecked Jefferson Jackson, husband of a volcano known as Marjory (“yellin’ and screamin’”) Jackson and proprietor of the Crossroads Tea Shop in Crossroads, Tennessee, whispered to a frightened employee, “It takes a man with courage to make…
Fellow Fairness Fanatics: you are invited to a Kaffee Klatsch ($1,000 per sustainably farmed, responsibly purchased organic cup) to show support for Senator Roland Burris, the Democrat who was appointed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to fill the seat vacated…
