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At first I thought this book was a little on the silly side. S.E. Cupp and Brett Joshpe are trying to rebut a bunch of the myths out there about the Right. That they are “Elitest WASPs” for instance, or that they are “humorless,” or that they are “undemocratic,” “homophobic,” “foreigner-hating,” “warmongers.”
But why do I [...]

This the third installment in my series on David Frum’s Comeback. I should have finished this book by now because it is a really quick and easy read. But I’ve been sidetracked lately and haven’t been able to put as much time in as I would have liked.
So far I’ve been a little disappointed at [...]

This is the second in a series of entries about David Frum’s new book.
Frum makes an interesting observation on page 32. He writes: “On their domestic policy records, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush rank as middle-of-the-road presidents, far less radical than say, Ronald Reagan or Harry Truman. Yet both Truman and Reagan drew support [...]

I picked up a copy of David From’s Comeback and will be be posting a series of blogs over the coming weeks with my thoughts on the book. The short version of From’s argument is that Republicans have to get over Ronald Reagan. According to From “Reagan Republicanism offers solutions to the problems of forty [...]