From The American Conservative Blogs

"You know what prostitutes and pimps and drugs and rape and electrocuted soldiers all have in common?" asks Kelley Vlahos. "You’re paying for it" — The business of war and profit: Aren’t we proud?

"Which soundbite sounds more conservative to you?" asks Freddy Gray, contrasting an Obama foreign-policy adviser's description of the recently caneclled Eastern European missile defense shield as "a system that won’t work, against a threat that doesn’t exist, paid for with money we don’t have" with the blatherings of two neocons — Romney and Santorum’s Missile Defense.

"On any given day," begins Daniel Larison, "hawks will mock Obama supporters because of the strong and obvious continuities in national security policy under Obama, and some of them will then turn around the next day to treat the unrealistic expectations of Obama-led change in U.S. foreign policy as a reasonable standard by which to judge the 'success' of the Obama administration" — “Anti-Americanism” Has Ceased To Mean Anything.

"For all his melodrama, Beck does two things which distinguish him from his colleagues," says Jack Hunter, namely, he "is not simply a blind Republican partisan" and "is not a constant warmonger" — Glenn Beck “We Need to Mind Our Own Business”.

"Even among thoughtful men and women of the Right there are real and often bitter differences of opinion as to what constitutes genuine conservatism," notes Daniel McCarthy, offering "five books [that] come as close to being canonical as any text can" — Five Conservative Classics. He says that "each made an indisputable contribution to the formative stages of the modern Right — and each tends to be revisited whenever conservatives seek to return to their intellectual roots."