To hear the neocons tell it, we’re “winning” in Iraq, and here is the face of “victory”: <object style=“width: 100%” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” ...
Do we really have to look at Doris Kearns Goodwin on Meet the Press so early in the morning? This plagiarist with the bromidic opinions—are we to be spared ...
I had to laugh when I saw that the Hollywood writers have voted to go on strike. With the dreck they’re churning out these days, it’s the audience that ought to go on strike—although, from what I can tell, that’s precisely what they are doing, what with attendance way down ...
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From David Weigel’s account of the GOP presidential beauty contest now taking place in front of the Family Research Council: ”[Duncan Hunter’s] first big applause line is ‘we are crushing al Qaeda in Anbar province!’ His second applause line is… more ...
From the Jersusalem Post: “Israel once came close to securing the release of convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard, but the American security services pulled the plug on the move at the last moment, President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday. During a tour of Safed, the president said that ...
On the occasion of John Podhoretz being appointed editor of Commentary magazine, which his father, Norman, edited for a quarter century or so, leftie writer Eric Alterman summed it up best: “Neocons excel at two things: helping to start dishonest, counterproductive, ruinous Middle East wars ...
On the twentieth anniversary of “Black Monday,” when approximately $1 trillion of “value” in a grievously over-valued stock market went up in smoke, the headlines (via Drudge) evoke an ominous déjà vu: “‘The fear is back,’’ said Thomas Roth, ...
The current regime of Rand-handlers offer an application of the principles of "Objectivism" to foreign policy that is unique in the annals of individualist thought: uniquely bloodthirsty. According to them, America must devote itself to a totalistic war against Islam, and all Islamic ...
We are truly living in a Bizarro World: I’m watching MSNBC, where Pat Buchanan is defending Larry Craig, while obvious dyke Rachel Maddow is calling for his head. Craig, says Rachel, should be thrown out of the Senate—not, she hastens to add, for soliciting an undercover police officer ...
