He has also written a number of conservative columns against policies like Obamacare and the lifting of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays for publications like the National Review Online, AmericanSpectator and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In a fascinating essay for TheAmerican Spectator's website, Jeffrey Lord attributes the Democrats' problems (or "The Death of Liberalism, " the title of Spectator editor Bob Tyrrell's new book) to a cultural shift that took place after JFK's assassination.
Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might get cold feet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.