Category Archives: Political Entertainment

The New Abolitionists

Posted on 2009/09/27 by ngilmour

I’m not sure why I’ve been exposed to this talking point so often in the last few days, but once again I’m hearing and reading people calling Obama voters pro-abortion voters. ?Some leave the sentence enthymemic, but others go ahead … Continue reading →

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On Respect for the Office

Posted on 2009/09/08 by ngilmour

I’ll admit that, at this point, nothing about cable-news-era American partisan shenanigans should surprise me.? I’ve seen push polls and astroturf organizing, free speech zones and major party convention speeches involving the word “spitballs.”? And I’ll also admit that, since … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Modest Proposal

Posted on 2009/07/28 by ngilmour

Arm the Senate! from E.J. Dionne I have to admit a bit of fondness for polemics like this.? There’s not all that much sophisticated thinking to it, just the direct application of strange thinking to commonplace situations.? It’s the simple … Continue reading →

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On Killing and Abortion

Posted on 2009/06/08 by ngilmour

I’ve heard about but haven’t had much time to think about the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller. I know that “Pro-Life” personalities were quick to get in front of television cameras and denounce the crime, and something struck … Continue reading →

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Day 83: We Need Answers Now!

Posted on 2009/05/26 by ngilmour

The Real Life Ticking Bomb Scenario. Tom Tomorrow put this up a couple weeks ago, but it deserves a look if you’ve not looked yet.

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I scored 93.94%. How about you?

Posted on 2009/05/25 by ngilmour

ISI Civic Literacy Quiz 2009 This little quiz took me about ten minutes to finish, and when the quiz revealed the two questions that I missed, I realized I had been gaming the quiz on one of them (answering how … Continue reading →

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David Simon on the Fate of the Press

Posted on 2009/05/13 by ngilmour

This is a heck of a speech.

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Individuals, Communities, and Other Such Fads

Posted on 2009/05/06 by ngilmour

David Brooks – The Long Voyage Home Unlike Brooks, I’m not rooting for the rising-again of the GOP so much as I dread what politics might look like should the Libertarians become the foil of the DNC.? I think that’s … Continue reading →

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Nothing to Hide

Posted on 2009/04/20 by ngilmour

The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com. I have to admit laughing out loud when I read this.? I know that four-year amnesia is common among the noisy class, but these complaints about … Continue reading →

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The Last Fact

Posted on 2009/03/07 by ngilmour

The Future! (Comics). It looks like the liberal Internet has deemed this meta-critique week, with Greenwald’s piece that I wrote about yesterday leaving the partisan battlefield to comment on journalism as a profession and this Tom Tomorrow cartoon noting the … Continue reading →

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Access Journalism and the Medium (or Media?) of Sycophants

Posted on 2009/03/06 by ngilmour

The Corruption of the Cocoon Like Binx Bolling in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, one of my hobbies is to read both conservative and liberal texts.? (Because he’s a mid-twentieth-century novel character, he doesn’t do so on the Internet as I … Continue reading →

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AM Radio and Christian Catechesis

Posted on 2009/03/02 by ngilmour

How Radio Wrecks the Right As many of my readers no doubt know, I was for the period of a year and a half or so simultaneously a contributing writer for the blogs Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia.? (The … Continue reading →

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The Real Kings of the GOP

Posted on 2009/02/20 by ngilmour

U.S. Congressman Phil Gingrey Kowtows to AM Radio Hosts Someone asked me recently if I’d heard about this incident, and I hadn’t.? So I read up on it.? And I wanted to laugh, and I wanted to cry. Apparently at … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of Monarchy and the Spirit of Republic

Posted on 2009/01/30 by ngilmour

Comp class yesterday was quite fun. ?We started out digging into the text of the Declaration of Independence, a document that, for good reasons and bad, has become a sort of canonical document in America, good for quoting and waving … Continue reading →

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Horowitz at the MLA

Posted on 2009/01/10 by ngilmour

Impasse at MLA Folks who have read my material over at the Conservative Reformed Mafia know that I agreed to participate in an experiment with J. Wizzle (a screen name, of course) in which we both reviewed David Horowitz’s Indoctrination … Continue reading →

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Who Gets Paid?

Posted on 2008/12/13 by ngilmour

The same political faction that was clamoring to preserve the part of a financial sector bailout package that keeps CEO salaries as high as CEO’s can manage, unhindered by the will of the plebs, mere months ago, is now blocking … Continue reading →

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No Eucharist for ANY OF YOU!

Posted on 2008/11/25 by ngilmour

SC Priest: No communion for Obama Supporters I have to admit that I’m more conflicted about this story than some of my liberal friends would likely want me to be.? But I do think that the Eucharist is serious enough … Continue reading →

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Changing my Name to Chrysler

Posted on 2008/11/17 by ngilmour

It appears I jumped too early on the “Changing my Name to Fannie Mae” thing.? If I’d just waited about a week, I could have just posted about auto makers again. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.? And people wonder … Continue reading →

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Cute Little Idea

Posted on 2008/11/15 by ngilmour

From 52 to 48 with Love Someone mentioned this at work the other day, and I checked it out.? I don’t know that still photos, no matter how clever, can compete with twelve hours (in some areas) of AM radio … Continue reading →

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What’s the Matter with Kansas Now?

Posted on 2008/11/13 by ngilmour

I know I’m weird for all sorts of reasons, and the most recent is that, after retreating into my paper-grading and preparing for my guest lecture at Emmanuel College the full week before the presidential election, I picked up a … Continue reading →

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