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The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It looks like Sullivan was just as surprised as I was that Sarah added some new contradictory detail in this most recent speech. In this one paragraph Sullivan pinpoints just why Trig is so vitally important to Palin's conservative political clout. In the Friday Wisconsin speech, we were reminded again of how central the Trig pregnancy remains to the Palin phenomenon. McCain, in the three minutes he...
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Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mr. Sullivan decries the falling standards of modern Catholicism: In Onaiyekan, you have a classic Benedict/JP II Archbishop: dumb as a post, sheltered from the actual debate in the West, incapable of argument, and pathetic as a spokesman. The problem with the theoconservative take-over in the Catholic priesthood is not so much its extremism as its [...]
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
After noting the influence that liberal blogge rs and activists have had on the Democratic party, Andrew Sullivan urges those same folks to ratchet up the pressure on Obama, who is now frustrating the left by not pushing hard for a public option: What part of "we" in "we are the ones we've been waiting for?" does the Beltway still not understand? And why has it taken this long for...
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Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Andrew Sullivan posted a one-liner today on the RCP generic polling average: "Just looking at this raft of polling data, it's perfectly clear that Rasmussen is polling a different country than other polling outfits." It might be perfectly clear if you just look at the data. But if you dig a little deeper before you start [...]
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Sullivan quotes me: “I suggest that if Yglesias and similarly-situated bloggers want to address the root causes of R. Bernstein’s obviously painful decision to denounce the organization he founded and nurtured, they read this comprehensive report by NGO Monitor” (by the way, I’ve since heard from a very reliable source that R. Bernstein in fact [...]
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Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Well, at least Mr. Sullivan and I can agree on his very first sentence in his post The Assault On Human Rights Watch:That was quite an op-ed by its former head yesterday in the NYT. Robert Bernstein argued that violations of human rights were worse in closed than in open societies and that it was therefore important to focus on abuses in the former rather than the latter. That takes us back to the...
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Blue Lyon (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
egalia points to Andrew Sullivan’s post wherein he takes on Obama and the Human Rights Campaign. In some ways, Obama’s fealty to the big gay lobby rather than to the real gay community is testimony to why Democratic party politics remain repulsive to me. HRC has achieved nothing substantive for gay equality on a federal level [...]
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Eschaton (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Even the liberal New Republic has been damaging our discourse for some time.
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Open Left (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Prominant blogger Andrew Sullivan is often very in tune with mainstream public opinion. Here are some examples: He was a fan of Ronald Reagan back when Reagan was popular He endorsed George Bush Sr. in 1988 He endorsed Bill Clinton in 1992 He endorsed George Junior in 2000 He endorsed John Kerry in 2004 (very slightly ahead of public opinion there) He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 On gay marriage...
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democrats.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
By David Swanson Of course, I'm going to argue no, that Andrew Sullivan is no more the king of America than is Barack Obama or George Tenet or Eric Holder or any of hundreds of other people claiming to be. But nobody other than the king or queen of the USA could overrule the Constitution and place particular people and categories of people above the law while keeping everybody else under it. Let's...
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Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
While Andrew Sullivan, despite his lurch to the left these past five years, remains a gifted writer, he, more often than not uses his verbal and literary gifts to conceal an increasingly incoherent political philosophy. He claims to be a “small government” conservative, but has been almost unstinting in his praise of a big-government liberal [...]
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Levellers (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
I don’t agree with Sullivan’s just war premises, nor that the Iraq War ever met the criter of Just War Theory, not even initially. But this article, by someone who was, from 9/11/’01 to early 2004, one of Bush’s strongest supporters on foreign policy is well worth reading. It is a devastating critique of torture [...]
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
This is my “Okay, I’ll post about Andrew Sullivan if you stop writing me about him” post. Via the Internet Scofflaw, we learned that Andrew Sullivan once sanctimoniously wrote: My view is that no one is above the law, and that when a society based on law prosecutes the powerless and excuses the powerful, it is corroding [...]
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Cave News (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
First of all, who is Andrew Sullivan? Andrew Sullivan (pictured) is an author and political commentator. Sullivan has maintained a political blog for several years. In fact, he was probably one of the earliest bloggers. He describes himself as a...
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