RedState: More News, Fewer Pleasing Lies

Here's something interesting in a blogpost this morning by RedState's Erick Erickson. In the course of a fulmination against Mitt Romney and the conservative elites who are reluctantly making peace with him, Erickson writes: Herman Cain won’t be the nominee because he can’t win women either. …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday November 8, 2011

The Culture War Gets Visceral in `Red State'

In 1970, Roger Ebert called his and Russ Meyer's quintessential sexploitation comedy Beyond the Valley of the Dolls a "horror comedy satire". Add the adjectives "political" and "religious", and the same thing can be said of Kevin Smith's latest black comedy, Red State, where the smoke of the …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday September 16, 2011

Conservatism's Hidden Powerbrokers

Everybody has to make a living, self-designated arbiters of conservatism like Erick Erickson very much included, reported Ben Smith in Politico yesterday: A leading conservative blogger and commentator, Erick Erickson, said he shifted his stance in a key Senate race because the company that …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday August 25, 2011