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Brothers Judd Blog (founded March 2002) is the companion blog to BrothersJudd.com, one of the leading book review sites on the web. It focuses on politics, culture, and religion from a theoconservative point of view.

Latest Blog Posts

  • EVERYTHING'S IN PLAY: on Nov 21, 2009 in

    Rating Change: Iowa GOP Gets Serious About Boswell Challenge (Greg Giroux, 11/21/09, CQ-Roll Call) After passing on a vigorous campaign against Rep. Leonard L. Boswell in 2008, Republicans in Iowa are signaling that they are more serious about challe...

  • WHO IS THIS EVERYONE?: on Nov 21, 2009 in CREEPING CARTERISM

    The Runaway Senate: When Democrats can't even agree to debate the health care bill, the president is no longer in charge of his party. (Matt Miller, 11/21/09, Daily Beast) [T]his entire debacle was really a test of whether Barack Obama can throw a pu...

  • THE CLOTHES HAVE NO EMPEROR: on Nov 21, 2009 in NOT MY UNICORN RIDER

    Where’s the poetry, Mr. President?: Obama’s oratorical magic is oddly missing. (Neil Swidey, November 22, 2009, Boston Globe Magazine) [R]ecite an unforgettable line from an Obama speech since he became president. A lot tougher, isn’t it? Bara...

  • THE AMAZINGLY ARROGANT VS SCIENCE: on Nov 21, 2009 in DEMOCRATIC DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

    Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor (KEITH JOHNSON , 11/21/09, WSJ) The picture that emerges of prominent climate-change scientists from the more than 3,000 documents and emails accessed by hackers and put on the Internet this week...

  • THE BELGIANS DIDN'T EVEN COME UP WITH THE CUCKOO CLOCK: on Nov 21, 2009 in EUROPEAN DECLINE

    'Europe has shown it wants to be a supersize Switzerland': The mood in Brussels is bleak as experts agree politicking has triumphed over ambition in the appointment of two new leaders (Ian Traynor, 11/21/09, The Guardian) Europe's hopes of translatin...

  • WE WON, GET OVER IT: on Nov 21, 2009 in DEMOCRATIC DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

    Where has the world headed after 1989? (Ian Buruma, 21 November 2009, Times of India) Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing , only die-hard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy. [...] Democr...

  • PRAGMATISM IS THE DENIAL THAT VALUES EXIST: on Nov 21, 2009 in CREEPING CARTERISM

    Assessing the China Trip (NY Times, 11/21/09) We were especially disappointed that China made no discernible move to join with the United States and other major powers in threatening tougher sanctions if Iran fails to make progress on curbing its nu...