I was working on an article on the similarities between liberals’ embrace of theories of anthropogenic climate change and their enthusiasm, in an earlier generation, for Keynesian economics when I heard the news of Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska. So, naturally, I have to write about it. After all, I’ve already … Read more Sarah Palin resigns
Wouldn’t you know it? Exactly one month after I wrote here about the common thread in the vicious attacks on Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean, they both get slimed on the same day. Gov. Palin was visiting New York to help raise funds for a charity for special needs children, and while there took in … Read more Palin, Parker and Prejean — again
Last fall I wrote a three-part series, which I posted on this site, on “Sarah Palin and the Politics of Elitism” (which you can read here, here, and here). My thesis was that the vitriol poured on Palin by the cultural elites stemmed from their insufferable snobbery and the fact that she was not one … Read more Why do they hate Carrie Prejean?
Of all the dumb statements made about the recent presidential election, the absolute dumbest has to be the assertion that Sarah Palin cost John McCain the election. Not only is there no evidence to support that conclusion, but the truth appears to be precisely the opposite: that McCain got more votes with Palin on the … Read more Sarah Palin and the politics of elitism — III
Sarah Palin just won’t go away. The election is now two weeks behind us, and the news media can’t seem to get enough of her. Last week she was interviewed in her Wasilla kitchen by Fox’s Greta van Susteren (while making moose chili), and by NBC’s Matt Lauer (while making a halibut-and-salmon casserole). CNN’s Larry … Read more Sarah Palin and the politics of elitism — II