This James Kirchick character who smears Taki in TNR has quite a rep in the blogosphere, best summed up by liberal blogger Matt Yglesias: “Kirchick has a promising future in conservative journalism, having mastered the time-honored techniques of rising through the ranks without any ...
We’re told that Israel, unlike the Arab states that surround it, is a “free” country, a “democracy” just like us: indeed, the Israelis are trying to push their way into NATO partly on this basis. But the reality, as is often the case when it comes to the Israelis, is ...
My friend Scott Richert is right: there is a problem. But excluding all “adherents of Islam” from the US isn’t the solution. To begin with, a real terrorist isn’t going to proclaim his (or her) adherence to Islam upon entering the US. How hard would it be to lie about ...
For all those career criminals out there, oppressed by a legal system stacked against them, who hope against hope that the justice of their cause will some day be recognized, the President’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence is a historic victory. Poor Scooter, who suffered ...
A pipe bomb explodes in a trash can outside of Disney World in Florida, and it makes international headlines. The hysteria builds—and it’s easily translatable into war hysteria. Addendum: A Disney employee has been arrested “after bragging about putting a pipe bomb at Downtown ...
”So incompetent as to be almost laughable”—That’s how former Scotland Yard investigator John O’Connor characterized the incredibly botched London bombings, in which 5 hapless “jihadists” were arrested (so far). Is this “Al Qaeda”? I think not. ...
If you haven’t read Victor Gold’s Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy Rollers and the Neocons Destroyed the GOP, then you’re in for a treat. Irascible as Taki, and full of bile against the neocon pod-people who have taken over the party of Goldwater and Taft, ...
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." This, it seems to me, displays the same mentality as exhibited in the rantings of the Virginia Tech killer: we have to terrorize ...
Is it me, or were the 15 British sailors and marines held by the Iranians just a little too gabby? Now that they"re home, the former hostages are repudiating their statements saying that they had intruded into Iranian waters, and they"re telling us that their profuse apologies " eagerly ...
I don"t care one whit about Rudy Giuliani's private life, although I have a hard time believing the evangelicals are quite ready for the rutting Rudy. He is, after all, an Italian male, with certain impulses wired into his brain, particularly that part of it that rules the sexual imagination. I ...
