Believe it or not: George Will is my favorite. He is a voice of reason. He is the common man's William F. Buckley.

I like "The Rude Pundit"

http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/

One of my favorites is "The Rude Pundit"

http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/

I would have to go with Dennis Prager or Larry Elder...

Its a tie

What's up? I tried to post here earlier and I got a message saying that my post needed to be reviewed by the the site manager.

Then: Hamilton, Jay & Madison writing under the pseudonym, Publius.

Now: Robert Reich in his weekly OpEd.

WojoPaul,

I think it is because the system thought it was a spam comment because you put the address of the website outside the URL box, which many spammers do. I approved the comments and they will show up now.

Thanks for reading and commenting on my blog.

Well, I have to find me a new favorite...now that Mr. Buckley has passed from our midst.

I didn't always agree, but I always learned, if nothing else, at least a word I'd never head of before and had to look up!!

Will? George Will is like Buckley-lite. The man should have a real job for a while.

Hmm...right now I'd have to go with the YouTube's "Red State Update". Check it out...it's a hoot!

Oh...on the "L" word side....hmm...there are points of light, but few beacons. Olberman, but he's TV. I'd have to say that Alternet.com and the Huffington Post provide commentary that I enjoy, but I can't say anyone individual rings my bell.

Of course, there is always NPR radio.

I love Christopher Hitchens on Slate...my vote for Sec of State in Obama cabnet...

Dennis Prager and Jonah Goldberg are great...

Can't forget George Will...

Camille Paglia

Ana Marie Cox, but that's only because I think she is hot. No, really . . . . . . Wonkette?!! What could be hotter?

My favorite historical writer, however, is likely Noam Chomsky, if that counts.

Victor David Hansen is a good local (Fresno) conservative writer. I have to say I didn't like Buckley at all.

I do like Steve Lopez in the LA Times - I hardly ever agree with him but he makes me laugh. I guess he really shouldn't be considered on this thread but I do like him.

Noam Chomsky should stick to linguists - I CAN'T STAND HIM!!!!

My penultimate choice - Gabor Steingart, "Der Spiegel's" Washington correspondent.

His regular "West Wing" column on American politics and society sets-forth brutally candid insights into the psyche of American politicians and the consequences of their actions. Such honest and timely insights regarding American politicians and the broader American society are found too little amongst the so-called elites of the "American Main Stream Media."

An extraordinary example of Gabor Steingart’s brilliant socio-economic-political analysis and provocative writing style is found in his article entitled, "America: Where it Pays to Fail." (Check out the URL referenced above).

Gabor sets forth his central thesis in first paragraph of that article where he reminds us, using Georg Simmel’s quotes that, ".banks are even bigger and more powerful than the churches," and that "money is the new god of our times.� He hits the proverbial nail right on the head regarding the enormous problems we American’s face today given the unholy intersection of Mammon, church, and state.

Additionally, I highly commend his recent, most excellent book, “The War for Wealth: The True Story of Globalization or Why the Flat World Is Broken.�

In that book, Gabor speaks harsh, but necessary and inconvenient truths’ to powerful American and Global elites, and by so doing, he provides those of us in the “dynamic growing center� with insight, courage and policy ammunition to fight that power. Today, more than ever, we must all work together to fight the ideological extremists, and their financiers, the multi-national, economic oligarchs whose loyalty lies not to the American people but to their own self-aggrandizement and megalomania.

Almost one-hundred years ago, Mark Twain offered this uncommonly prescient and painful observation about Americans’ fascination with wealth, royalty and celebrity, “we worship money and the possessors of it- they being our aristocracy, and we have to have one. We like to read about rich people in the papers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.�

Today, Herr Steingart’s West Wing columns remind us all of the ageless wisdom of Mark Twain’s observations. And by so doing, hopefully they also provide us all with the insight, courage and historical ammunition to fight the concentration of political power and wealth amongst fewer and fewer people, corporations and groups, and once again, return our government, at all levels, to the people, for the people and by the people.

NostraDemus

Using dusty language and ornate quotes often has the opposite impact on the reader than the writer intends.

Do your sentences really need 5-7 commas and average word count of over 30 words?

For instance, look at your last 53 word Spruce Goose:

Nostrademus :"And by so doing, hopefully they also provide us all with the insight, courage and historical ammunition to fight the concentration of political power and wealth amongst fewer and fewer people, corporations and groups, and once again, return our government, at all levels, to the people, for the people and by the people."

Anyone want to re-write the above sentence to convey the same point with half the words?

I agree.

Loggorhea:

Sorry you don't like my epistrophic reference to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Thought is was quite clever myself, but so be it.

Thanks ever so much for the cyber-grammatical corrections.

As an Italian, I readily admit that often my soulful commitment to passionate argument sometimes outruns my application of punctilious punctuation.

So be it, as Jesse Jackson once said, "..Sorry that I'm so imperfect, but God's not finished with me yet.."

BTW Loggie (Aka Loupy), given the lousy real-estate market right now, it looks like geotech services are not in high demand from avaricious development types, like the Runkle Canyon boys.

You know, the one's who normally are ready, willing and able to pay big-bucks to get the desired geotechnical results that they pay for, regardless of the facts, or laws of science, don't you?

Well, now that developer income is down, I guess you gotta do something with your free time, other than watch llamas!!

Hyperpolysyllabicomanic:

Great cyber-nom-de-plume. Wish I had thought of it myself!

Ciao Commendatori

NostraDemus

Brian, and interested others:

Sorry, the URL reference to Gabor Steingart's West Wing Column article entiled, "America: Where it Pays to Fail," included in my earlier post above was incorrect.

If you clicked-on it, you would get the German phrase, "Dokument, nicht gefunden," which translates into "document not found."

I've supplied the correct URL in this post. Sorry for the lingustic inconvenience caused by my digital mistake.

Auf Widersehen, my Blogg-Freunde!

NostraDemus

Joe Garden with The Onion Newspaper!

;-)

Debbie

www.deborahdennert.blogspot.com

I have always been impressed by George Will's reasoned position on matters.

Fareed Zakaria
Jonathan Alter
George Will

Dennis Prager in his KABC days as a "certified centrist" was once thought-provoking. Cannot say the same for him since Salem Broadcasting rented his soul (along with Strickland's and Foy's) at KRLA.

Still like to hear him discuss the micro/personal issues but there is sadly no longer objectivity and welcome discussion on macro/political issues.