2010: a difficult year for the country, a year of growth for the FrumForum site.
This was the year of Tea Party protest, of the passage of the Democratic health bill, and of big Republican gains in Congress. Oh – and the year I got axed at the American Enterprise Institute.
As of the 51 week mark in 2010, the FrumForum site had attracted a little over 1.89 million unique visitors, who together viewed 8.136 million pages of content.
What attracted all those people to this one site? FrumForum editors have looked backward over the year’s blogging to identify the articles that had the most resonance for you, our readers. Mr Producer, a drumroll please …
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David Frum, Do Jews Hate Palin?
January 4, 2010
If Jews do in fact disapprove of Sarah Palin more than other people do it is because she often seems to divide her fellow-Americans into first class and second class citizens, real Americans and not-so-real Americans.
Danielle Crittenden, The Capital Snow Diaries
February 11, 2010
In the early days of Snowmageddon, people were positively balmy. ?The snow was falling all over the District and we made joyous plans.? Fires were set. ?Stew recipes exchanged. ?Wine poured. Who knew that five days later, many of us would still be housebound?
Tim Mak, Bowling with Mitt
February 18, 2010
Anyone who is anxious about the coming Mitt Romney candidacy can rest assured: At the very least, Romney is an excellent bowler.
Tim Mak, Hannitized is Sanitized
March 19, 2010
After Debbie Schlussel accused a charity that Sean Hannity is affiliated with of malfeasance and mismangement., FrumForum conducted an exhaustive investigation of the charity in question, Freedom Alliance, and found evidence to rebut her claims.
David Frum, Waterloo
March 21, 2010
By rejecting any deal with President Obama over health reform, conservatives and Republicans set the stage for their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
Chris Currey, How the GOP Purged Me
April 5, 2010
How did the conservative movement and the Republican party go from William F. Buckley to Glenn Beck?? From Eisenhower and Nixon to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann?
April 10, 2010
When the people of California voted to strip the over 1,000 legal rights afforded married couples from gay Californians I decided I could no longer serve in the military. Why should I put my life at risk to defend the freedom of Americans who think so little of me and my relationships?
Jeb Golinkin, Maine’s Tea Party Coup
May 11, 2010
This weekend, tea party supporters attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views.
Eli Lehrer, Why the Greek Crisis is Not America’s Future
May 11, 2010
If there’s a major debt-driven crisis in the U.S. within the next decade it’s going to look very different than the one now unfolding in Greece.
Jeb Golinkin, The New Gay Right
June 5, 2010
As gay rights issues have gained mainstream attention, gay Republicans have jumped back into the debate.
Jeb Golinkin, Strasburg: Another Sports Robot
June 8, 2010
Stephen Strasburg may well be the most talented pitcher to break into the majors in decades but don’t bother hanging around for his postgame interviews.? More and more, our public figures don’t have much to say.
Rachel Ryan, Spicing Up Washington’s Street Life
June 26, 2010
Zoning rules and street patterns deprive northwest Washington of the cute cafes, shops and street life that enliven cities like Paris.
Danielle Crittenden, Bristol and Levi’s Evite Invitation
July 14, 2010
FrumForum gets a look at the invitation from 2010’s biggest wedding (that didn’t happen).
Eugene Debs, What Kind of Socialist is Barack Obama? No Kind
July 29, 2010
In a four part series, FF contributor Eugene Debs debunks Stanley Kurtz’s claim that President Obama is pushing a socialist agenda.
Noah Kristula-Green, The Tea Party Embraces Ayn Rand
July 31, 2010
At least one part of the American economy has enjoyed a boom since the financial crisis: the estate of Ayn Rand and sales of her dystopic door-stopper novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”
David Frum, Is the 9/11 Mosque a Publicity Stunt?
August 10, 2010
The lower Manhattan mosque has provoked many doubts and suspicions. Here’s mine: the whole thing is a phony-baloney publicity stunt by a developer in search of project financing.
Shawn Summers, Thank God for Hitchens
August 21, 2010
Hitchens has always held an antipathy for totalitarianism, especially in religious form. Now fighting cancer, he has thankfully not lost his voice.
John Guardiano, The Right’s Anti-Islam Extremists
August 23, 2010
Conservatives should take care to not recast the war against radical Islam as a war against all Islam.
Paul Craft, The J.D. Hayworth Revolution Fizzles Out
August 25, 2010
Situated in the ballroom of a northern Scottsdale resort, J.D. Hayworth’s election party was not the passionate populist uprising the campaign may have wished for.
David Frum, Gingrich: Obama Wants Whitey’s Money
September 13, 2010
Following Dinesh D’Souza’s Forbes article, Newt Gingrich has now stepped up to suggest that President Obama’s policies are motivated by anti-white racial revenge.
Tim Mak, Meghan McCain’s Not So Dirty Sexy Politics
September 17, 2010
As every unmarried male reviewer of “Dirty Sexy Politics” must do, I considered the effect a bad review would have on my chances of ever taking Meghan McCain out to dinner.
Shawn Summers, Our Kind of Tea Partier
October 24, 2010
British MEP Dan Hannan’s new book warns America away from copying European style social democracy, but with evidence and reason not vitriol.
Nils August Andresen, Smart Youth Voters Shunned GOP in Midterms
November 8, 2010
Republicans had a good election across most of the country, yet still lost heavily amongst young, highly educated voters. What went wrong?
Tim Mak, RNC’s Political Director: Steele Neglecting Donor Base
November 16, 2010
FF gets the RNC’s response to resigning political director Gentry Collins’ criticisms of Michael Steele’s tenure as chairman.
Noah Kristula-Green, What Would Fed Critics Do Instead?
November 17, 2010
FF contacted co-signers of the letter opposing the Fed’s $600 billion stimulus to see what policies they would propose instead.
Danielle Crittenden, Let Them Eat Twinkies
November 28, 2010
It’s bad enough Obama is nationalizing our healthcare, but now according to the latest paranoid fantasy on the right: he’s going to start telling you what to eat too.
Noah Kristula-Green, We Watch “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” So You Don’t Have To
November 28, 2010
FF liveblogs each episode of Sarah Palin’s new reality show.? Follow Sarah hunting caribou, going fishing, and prospecting for gold.
Tim Mak, Why Toppling Steele is Harder Than It Looks
November 30, 2010
A new PPP poll has 47% of Republicans wanting RNC chair Michael Steele replaced. But beating him might not be as easy as his opponents think.
Richard Ramsey, Food Fight Becomes Open Class Warfare
December 7, 2010
Why is the South – the most culturally conservative part of the country, in most respects – so thoughtlessly permissive about eating?
Richard Ramsey, Freedom’s Just Another Word for 50 Pounds to Lose
December 14, 2010
There are financial and national security benefits to eating better as a nation. Yet, many conservatives still oppose attempts to better the diets of school kids.
Tim Mak, RNC Candidate’s Firm Got Clients Stimulus Funds
December 15, 2010
FF has learned that RNC Chair candidate Reince Priebus’ firm lists him as a lawyer on a team which helps clients secure federal stimulus funds.
Tim Mak, Don’t Diss the RNC
December 15, 2010
In 2010, third party groups stepped in to assist with GOP fundraising and campaigns. But don’t write off the RNC as irrelevant just yet.
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