The Never-Ending Quest to ‘Hush Rush’

From NRO:
It takes some big numbers to measure Rush Limbaugh’s success — 20 million listeners, a $400 million contract. But the best index of Limbaugh’s effectiveness can be found in a much smaller figure, somewhere between a few dozen and a few hundred, which is the number of Democratic-party officials and liberal advocates who want to use the law to shut him up.Limbaugh, now celebrating his 20th year as a national radio host, is single-handedly responsible for a movement on the part of some Democrats to revive the “Fairness Doctrine.” With origins in the earliest laws regulating radio, the Doctrine became, by the time a young Rush Limbaugh entered radio in the 1970s, a de facto ban on editorializing. Had the Reagan-era Federal Communications Commission not done away with it in the 1980s — it was a patently unconstitutional limit on the First Amendment rights of broadcasters — Limbaugh’s career would never have happened. (more)

Alley Cats of the Left

What fascism looks like from the Spectator:
Huffington continues:
There are not two valid sides to issues like global warming or health care. We can argue about what to do, but unless you are crazy or a liar, you can’t honestly claim that the drug and insurance companies aren’t an obstacle to public health…or that global warming is a fraud and then demand equal time to spout some nonsense that gains an aura of legitimacy from the “let’s hear from both sides” approach of the news media.See the thuggish brown shirt tactics here? They want to shower conservatives with name calling, then smear them with allegations that their arguments are made in bad faith, and then demand that they even be excluded from public debate. This is not a discussion of ideas, it is all a purely ad hominem attack. Huffington’s book should have been entitled Winning Through Intimidation.(more)
And they’ll be coming after you and I too…

Ten Books That Shaped America’s Conservative Renaissance.

Read Jeff Nelson’s Ten Books That Shaped America’s Conservative Renaissance. Over at Intercollegiate Studies. You can also view them on the sidebar of this blog.

Liberal Fascism

Excellent review over at FrontPage.
Liberal Fascism:The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
By Jonah GoldbergDoubleday, $27.95, 487 pp.Review by David Forsmark

That “thwack” you hear from coast to coast is conservative book-writing pundits smacking themselves on the forehead and exclaiming, “Why didn’t I think of that?”
The reason is National Review editor Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, as it racks up huge sales and dominates best-seller lists.

Jonah Golberg is the Editor over at National Review founded by the late William F. Buckley