Neocons for Rudy

Uh oh, it looks like the neocons have settled on a presidential candidate, and it is (you guessed it) ... “They are officially known as Rudy Giuliani’s senior foreign policy advisory board, but they also could be dubbed something else: Neocons For Rudy.” That’s David ...

The Demagogue Express

Here’s the video of Mad John McCain going ballistic over the anti-Petraeus Moveon.org ad in the New York Times: <object width=“425” height=“350”><param name=“movie” value=“http://www.youtube.com/v/l67jNjNbO5Y”> <embed ...

Petraeus: An “€˜Ass-Kisser”€™?

Amid the cries of “Hail, Caesar!” coming from Congress in response to General Petraeus’s appointment as front man for George W. Bush, and the snarls of outrage over the Moveon.org “Petraeus-Betray us” ad in the New York Times, a reality check brought to you by Centcom ...

Fox News Versus Carl Cameron

I had to laugh, on the morning of the sixth anniversary of 9/11, when Fox News did a program that was supposed to “debunk those crazy 9/11 conspiracy myths once and for all,” as Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy put it. What followed was a “debunking” of the most absurd ...

The Hagelian Dialectic

The Democrats were pretty cautious in their handling of General Petraeus during the Senate hearing on the “surge” in Iraq: they are easily intimidated by a man in uniform. The Republicans, however, weren’t quite so shy. "€˜"€˜In my judgment, some type of success in Iraq is ...

Contra Gottfried: Out Now!

With all due respect, Paul Gottfried just doesn’t get it—we are way past salvaging what is left of our “honor” when it comes to the invasion and conquest of Iraq. And, really—Kemal Ataturk! While Gottfried does acknowledge that the example is just a bit too ...

Neo-Nazis … in Israel?

A neo-Nazi cell in ... Israel? To which one can only add: Oy vey! Actually, this is not all that surprising. After all, Israeli nationalist ideology has evolved into a form of national socialism—albeit without the anti-Semitism. The socialist part of the equation is easy: Israel was founded ...

Nada Lotta

Richard Brookhiser on Fred Thompson: “Fred Thompson came to the offices of National Review some years when he was still in the Senate. I liked him fine. He has done nothing, anywhere, ever. The Hubble Telescope could not find what he has done, because he has not done it.” What? ...

Noonan on Ron Paul

Peggy Noonan delivers a warning to the Republican presidential pack: “The debate was full of fireworks about Iraq, about its essentials—the rightness of the endeavor, and what should rightly be done now. From the libertarian Ron Paul a blunt argument against the war: We never should ...

Paul Cleans Huckabee’s Clock

The highlight of the GOP presidential debate, held in New Hampshire, and broadcast on Faux Fox News, was this exchange between Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee (Hat tip: Lewrockwell.com) PAUL: “Going into Iraq and Afghanistan and threatening Iran is the worst thing we can do for our national ...