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Obama's Desolation Homesick Blues.

You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows — Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the wind blew rumors of sedition, revolution and terrorism from the Left. It disclosed the falsity of the ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  22 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bob Dylan,  William Ayers,  The Politico,  U.S. Republican Party

A fragment on Iraq.

Among the Editors here, I stand as perhaps the most skeptical of the American adventure in Iraq. I do not write on it very often, for various reasons of principle and expedience, but I want to take a moment to set down some thoughts on the ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  28 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Edmund Burke,  American Airlines,  Thomas Hobbes

The Siege of Famagusta, 1571.

Crowds of journalists have of late flocked to Cyprus, that storied island nation, and as it happens Cyprus was in the news on this very date exactly 435 years ago, at the Siege of Famagusta. On some pretext, authenticated by a ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  25 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Don John

A dreary tradition.

And so the fallout from our generations innovations on the institution of matrimony, piled upon the devastating innovations of previous generations, . The fallout begins where it will end, none can say. But we can say with some ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  21 Jul 2006

Let me be clear . . .

The city of recently passed a very tough ordinance against illegal immigration. Hear that? Against illegal immigration . The new law establishes stiff fines for landlords who rent to illegals. It punishes companies that hire ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  18 Jul 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush

Friendship and restraint.

"The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?" I have not often had occasion to praise President Bush over the course of his second term in office. Of late, I have only found myself increasingly entrenched in opposition to him, and ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  17 Jul 2006

The logic of Tolerance and tyranny.

Only those who havent been paying attention will apprehend irony in : Its quite simple, really: when a community endeavors to make Tolerance its governing ideal, it will end up intolerant. The paradox is resolved once it is realized that ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  15 Jul 2006

A farewell to arms.

In case it escaped your notice, as it did mine: according to the Daily Mail , the Church of England St. George as its patron saint on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims. , in legend the ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  13 Jul 2006

The most beautiful State.

I have had the pleasure (and tedium) of driving through the vast majority of the states of the Union. The main exception is New England. Growing up, my family usually took a major trip, by car, each summer. Often it was across the Midwest ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  12 Jul 2006
Related Topics: European Union

Early mornin Open Thread

Late last month, National Review published an assemblage of The 50 greatest conservative rock songs. John J. Miller gives us , and there is much to ponder. His choice for Number 1, though perhaps not what I would have immediately ...

From PAUL J CELLA, RedState,  30 Jun 2006

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