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James Poulos

James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.
by | Apr 11, 2008

This at least will be easier than defending Obama on the use of his phrasing, because my astral projection skills tell me he wasn’t quite aiming for the following interpretation. But consider: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter,…

by | Apr 7, 2008

I wrote a long rumination on this important subject last night which was fortunately deleted by internet gremlins at the instant of publication. Suffice it to say that the roots of internecine glumfighting run very deep in conservative DNA, and…

by | Mar 17, 2008

Maybe the biggest fad of the mid-1990s was a certain kind of crime film, popular enough among college kids to have resulted momentarily in the replacement of dorm posters featuring young nubiles with dorm posters featuring busted-up looking white guys….

by | Feb 6, 2008

McCain has won one red state, Oklahoma. He is on track to win one more: his home state of Arizona.

by | Feb 6, 2008

You’d feel different, Shawn, if you lived in a small town. You’d disagree if you grew up in a small town. If you hung out in a small small town. Yeah, you’d be small in a small town. PS Who…

by | Feb 6, 2008

Will conservatives stumble bloody and dazed to Huck?

by | Feb 1, 2008

If you want fair and balanced, my bottom line’s not it. If you think, however, that Hillary’s the worst, click away.

by | Feb 1, 2008

On the Bill Question. What else? Her name’s on the ballot, but he’ll be in the White House, and if it’s a “lonely job,” well, I’ll try to stop my innuendo at the water’s edge. ANOTHER cackle on “dream ticket.”…

by | Feb 1, 2008

Obama attack torture chic — [Yes, I duck out on these things from time to time.] — very nicely done. Censorship isn’t gonna do it. People need to make less evil movies.

by | Feb 1, 2008

She doesn’t answer the questions. She doesn’t own up to her votes. She doesn’t say a word about Bill. She doesn’t say a word about Iran. She doesn’t make unforced errors. She doesn’t deviate from the program. And she doesn’t…

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