Interview with "South Park Conservative" Brian Anderson

Author Brian C. Anderson does an interview with
Jamie Glazov from Frontpagemag.com, telling the story
of how he came to write South Park Conservatives and what to expect
in the culture wars in the near future.

Steyn: Blair Will Win

Überpundit
Mark Steyn
doesn’t really like it, but he figures Tony Blair will win the British election
on Thursday. The voters have fallen out of love with Tone, but they haven’t
fallen in love with anyone else. Not yet. To relieve the gloom, Mark
offers up this:

“The problem with the war on terror is that once it was framed
as an existential struggle for Western civilization,
it was all too predictable that the left would act as it
did the last time we had one of those, the Cold War:
They’d do their best to lose it.”

If we didn’t have Mark Steyn, we’d have to invent him.

Spengler: No Women Priests, Thank You

The commentariat’s chief disciple of Franz Rosenzweig has been exercised
by the changing of the guard at the Catholic Church. Like everyone else,
he has some
advice
for the new pope. The word from Spengler? Don’t open the priesthood to women.
In general Spengler is in favor of equality for women, if for no other reason
that if you don’t give women what they want they will punish you for it.
“Nonetheless, ordaining female priests at this moment in history would
be ill-advised.
A priest’s most important function is to forgive sins.
Women never forgive anything.”

But wait a minute, Spengler, old chum. You’ve got this upside down. It
isn’t priests that do the forgiving in Christianity. It’s God. Does that
mean that Benedict XVI can go ahead and give the girls the go code?

Dems Don't Get Religion

After the election Democrats said that they would start to pay attention
to religious voters. But when religious voters they didn’t like dared to
show up on the public square, Democrats threw a cow. How dare Senator Frist
address a religious rally called Justice Sunday, they complained,
according to
Morton Kondracke.

So Democrats respect religious voters but want to anathematize the Republicans
that speak to them. Writer Alan Wooldridge reports that during the 2004
campaign Bush got his biggest applause when he told his audience that
Bush got his best crowd response by declaring that “the Democratic Party believes
that Hollywood people represent real American values.”

Liberals and Diversity: A Cautionary Tale

Conservatives have always distrusted the liberal line on diversity and inclusion.
Because it has always seemed to be about empowering liberals and
silencing conservatives. But Gandhi and Martin Luther King taught us long
ago that we can use our distrust about our opponents to test their
sincerity. Invite them to honor their noble principles and see what they
do.
David Horowitz
has been inviting liberal professors to live up to their avowal of free speech
and academic freedom in a campaign for an Academic Bill of Rights that
attempts to extend the idea of academic freedom from professors and academic
leftists to student and conservatives. Would the
liberal professors honor their noble principles, or would they betray their
principles in accordance with the dictates of the postmodernists that
law and rights are meaningless: the only thing that matters is power?

Unlike the British in India, and the Americans in the 1960s, it
looks like the only thing that matters to the liberal professors is their
power. They are attacking, as McCarthyism, an Academic Bill of Rights that
merely repeats what liberal icons like John Dewey advocated at the
beginning of the twentieth century. They are advocating
against the principles they claim to believe in.

That, of course, is exactly where
controversialist David Horowitz wants them.

"Lifestage" Conservatism

We already knew that President Bush led by 20 points in the last election
among married parents with children. Now we have an explanation. It’s
the concept of “lifestage” conservatism, people that started out
liberal but grew up fast when they became parents and no longer wanted a
public square that pandered solely to the interests of twentysomething
singles.
Suzanne Fields
delivers the news.
Details at the Progressive Policy Institute

The Katie Crisis

Conservatives have waited a long time for the day that Katie Couric
would start to get into trouble. Now it has happened, and, in accordance
with the media Blood in the Water theory, the sharks are rushing in to take
a chunk out of pretty Katie’s shapely legs. It’s funny how power corrupts, isn’t
it? Give someone a chunk o’ cash and a modicum of power, and watch
the inner beast come out to play.
Myrna Blyth
dishes the details.