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The Washington Rat-Race

1 month ago | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell |Spencer Neale

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Rats are taking over our nation’s capital, and this is not mere Trump Derangement Syndrome hyperbole. We’re talking real rats—the filthy kind that progressive Democrats as well as MAGA Republicans would like to see exterminated as efficiently as possible. “Urban rat populations are booming,” the Washington Post reports, with the District of Columbia leading the way, as it does in so many areas of modern life.
Kennedy Family Values

2 months ago | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

History Kennedy Family Values Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close? Featured in the December 2024 issue Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... “If you ain’t first, you’re last.”Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky BobbyOn August 23, 1956, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the eighth month of pregnancy, was rushed to the Newport (R.I.) Hospital because she was hemorrhaging.
This Old House

Nov 15, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

Looks like George Washington’s mansion outside Washington, D.C., is getting a makeover. Much of the manor house at Mount Vernon is now closed and will remain so for almost a year. Once the Property Brothers have tossed their tools into the back of their pickup and Ye Olde Jacuzzi is up and running, elected officials of our own day—Washington’s heirs—should be moved to the front of the line to see the results. The more they know about the Father of Our Country, the better for all of us, right?
McDonald’s Goes Native

Nov 7, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Crawford |Alan Pell

Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login Culture McDonald’s Goes Native The fast food chain is in the news as a proxy for “regular” America, but in the global era, it has become all things to all peoples. The late M. Stanton Evans used to say that when he went to a French restaurant, he “expected French fries.” This was a pose struck for comic effect.
Huzzah for Transparency!

Oct 31, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

A report fromForbes that “at least 100 billionaires” were supporting either the former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris points once again to the unseemly involvement of rich Americans in their own country’s elections. So much earnest handwringing over this news can be expected in coming weeks that La Roche-Posay hand cream sales will go through the roof and send stock in L’Oreal, which owns La Roche-Posay, soaring.
The Blame Game Get Under Way

Oct 27, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

The polls haven’t even closed, and it has already begun: the finger-pointing, the accusations, the premature post-mortems. In mid-October, for example, Frank Luntz told CNN that Kamala Harris’s momentum “froze” when she began to attack Donald Trump. Until then, her numbers had been terrific.
Lots of Character

Oct 18, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

Politics Lots of Character A modest proposal for the American abodes of fleeing celebrities. Did you know that Chelsea Handler bought a house in Brentwood, California, from RFK Jr., and his wife Cheryl Hines? This was news to me.
Dawn of the Dead?

Oct 1, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Alan Pell

Drowned out by the uproar over the consumption of dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, was what Republican operatives had hoped would prove a far bigger scandal. This was the shocking news that Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a Democrat who of course represents the native-born residents of Springfield, had accepted not one, but two donations to his re-election campaign from a woman who, five months before the donations were made, had already died. The donations totaled an appalling $350.
The Death of a Character

Sep 24, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Alan Pell Crawford |Peter Tonguette |Alan Pell

Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login Culture The Death of a Character A chapter of American culture closes with the death of New York’s heterodox wild man, Noel Parmentel. The references are as dated as “Quemoy” and “Matsu” but, like the man who wrote the lyrics, they still deliver a good deal of polemical wallop. How’s this, to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”?