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The Weekly Standard, A Sometime Champion of Freedom of Speech

December 3, 2014 By steven-j-gulitti

You know for all of the articles championing freedom of speech, which have appeared of late in the Weekly Standard, I was taken aback by the recent article: ‘Anti-Military Anthem Played at 'Concert for Valor'. This past year numerous pieces … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Bruce Springsteen, dick-cheney, Ethan Epstein, first-amendment, Fred Barnes, freedom-of-speech, John Ashcroft, neocons, neoconservatives, newt-gingrich, paul-wolfowitz, Richard N. Perle and Rush Limbaugh, the-weekly-standard, william-kristol

The Intellectual Dishonesty of William Kristol

February 25, 2013 By steven-j-gulitti

Tweet   No American with a basic understanding of this country’s military history could not have been anything but taken aback by William Kristol’s intellectually dishonest criticism of this statement in President Obama’s second … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, foreign-policy, neoconservatives, war policy, william-kristol

Mitt Romney: Conservative Trojan Horse or Political Chameleon?

October 10, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti

What became of Mitt Romney the “severe conservative” who so assured the American right earlier this year that he had long since slipped his moorings to a moderate political past in Massachusetts? Surely a “severely conservative” Mitt Romney … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-elections, Andrea Mitchell, barack-obama, Byron York, Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Principles, david-brooks, Doyle McManus, Ezra Klein, George Will, grover-norquist, Hugh Hewitt, jonah-goldberg, Jonathan Chait, Mark Halperin, Michael Barone, michelle-malkin, mitt-romney, presidential-debate, Rich Lowry, Ross Douthat, sean-hannity, tea-party, william-kristol

For the Radical Right, a Defeat in New Hampshire

January 11, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti

Tonight's outcome in New Hampshire represents a significant setback for the fortunes of the Tea Party movement along with the rest of the radical right as Republican moderates have captured the bulk of the votes cast in the contest. When … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012 Presidential Election, iowa-caucuses, John Huntsman, michelle-bachmann, mitt-romney, New Hampshire Primaries, newt-gingrich, Republican Primaries, republican-party, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, ron-paul, Tea Party Caucus, tea-party-movement, william-kristol

NeoCon Kristol Unsettled by G.O.P. Contenders

September 28, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti

William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative organ, The Weekly Standard, recently bemoaned the performance of conservative candidates during the last Republican presidential debate. He claims to be saying out loud what he implies is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-presidential-elections, barack-obama, chris-christie, Expeditionary Warfare and Public Opinion, jeb-bush, Military Operations, Mitch Daniels, mitt-romney, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Weekly Standard, william-kristol

Conservative Pundits Throwing Perry Under the Bus?

September 25, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti

For the second time in the past two days a prominent conservative commentator has thrown Texas Governor Rick Perry under the bus possibly sending this latest Tea Party darling into a downward tailspin along the same trajectory as that of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, barack-obama, Brit Hume, michelle-bachmann, mitt-romney, Republican Primaries, Rick Perry, tea-party-movement, william-kristol

Glenn Beck and His “Caliphate” Upended by the Arab Street

February 21, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti

If there's one thing that can be discerned for sure from recent events in the Middle East, it's the upending of Glenn Beck's "Caliphate Conspiracy" and the rendering of that theory and its author to nothing more than a farcical sideshow to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bahrain, caliphate-conspiracy, david-brooks, egypt, fox-news, frank-rich, glenn-beck, islamic-freedom-movements, jihad, john-birch-society, libya, morrocco, muslim-brotherhood, richard-lowry, robert-welch, rupert-murdoch, tunisia, william-kristol

The Flawed Logic of William Kristol

December 19, 2009 By steven-j-gulitti

In a recent Washington Post article titled "A Good Time to be a Conservative"; Mr. Kristol made a bold assumption, claiming the "center of gravity" within the Republican Party would shift farther to the right, propelled in that direction by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: americans-for-tax-reform, andrew-sullivan, bob-inglis, christie-todd-whitman, colin-powell, conservatives, david-frum, freedom-works, glenn-beck, john-mccain, kathleen-parker, lindsey-graham, mickey-edwards, mike-huckabee, mitt-romney, neoconservatives, newt-gingrich, olympia-snowe, republican-party, rush-limbaugh, sarah-palin, tea-party, tom-ridge, william-kristol

Yes, Virginia, There Is, Sadly, A William Kristol …

December 24, 2007 By jtdgarlic

Little Billy Kristol is all plump-in-the-crotch with this one. "We are now winning the war. To say this was not inevitable is an understatement ..." "Petraeus pulled it off. The war is not over, of course. Too quick and deep a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cheerleading, general-david-petraeus, john-waters, little-billy-kristol, national, neocons, petraeusreportpalooza, russ-meyer, william-kristol, yes-virginia

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