Trying to get another perspective

[jchrisobrien]

If someone can point me to a conservative website or online paper that doesn't sound shrill, imperialistic, or like the world is about to drown in a sea of liberal debauchery unless we go out and conquer the whole damn world, please let me know.

I'm serious. I don't see myself as a tree hugger or anything, but it's hard to read some of these websites w/out wanting to throttle the writer.

Comments

[atalanta.livejournal.com]

that's one reason I like the sites that are collections of the writings of many people - you can pick & choose.

but part of it is just the tone of discourse these days - read liberal writers and you get a lot of wrist-to-forehead, eye-rolling commentary about conservatives' religious and monetary selfishness, read conservative writers and get a lot of apoplectic sputtering about hell-in-a-handbasket liberals.

andrew sullivan has good links and often makes good comments, but he makes no attempt to keep his tone level a lot of the time.

if you want calmer writers, try thomas sowell, george will, walter williams.

avoid david horowitz, john derbyshire, phyllis schlafly.

jonah goldberg gets silly without taking himself seriously (he's the one that wrote the "cool! orcs!" article about LOTR.)

national review corner (http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp) is their blog which has comments from all the columnists - that means it'll usually both interest and irritate me every time I read it. But it's just small news snippets of all kinds of stuff, with links to other places, so it can be a good place if you want to skim.

This is super-pro-Israeli, so keep that in mind (it won't be hard), but it has things you won't see much of elsewhere:
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
It also has links to a million other news sites. On the right side of the page there is a list of links to other blogs (under "anti-idiotarians") and some of them are extremely level. Others, of course, are not.

for fun:
http://www.lonedissenter.com/
a great blog by a conservative kid in high school in the Bay Area

from the WSJ editorial page:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/

[mr-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

"The death of right and wrong" by Tammy Bruce is an interesting look at conservatism as well. Ms Bruce is a feminist lesbian activist who is also conservative. Her take on the "cult of victimization" on the Left is very interesting so far although her views are more grounded in common sense based on certain events then "data interpretation" like Anne Coulture or other pundits.

Very interesting read at the very least.

-sarcy