Disinformation
About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul's enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an ...
About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul's enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an ...
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” From A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton’s words, as he rode the ...
Okay, okay, I admit it: I, too, am bitter. What else would one expect an Obama-con to be? I know we’re not supposed to be negative, at least according to Hillary, who “seems to have switched her narrative ...
Great. That’s all we need. There is ” title=“a cholera epidemic”>a cholera epidemic in Iraq caused by the “decrepit water supply system”. The outbreak started in northern Iraq, aka ...
You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take.You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks.Out on to an open road, you ride until the dayYou learn to sleep at night with the price you pay . . . Oh, the ...
This week, with his pronouncement that “credit is the lifeblood of a healthy economy,” President Obama reiterated what has been one of his most common themes in diagnosing our economic problem. The president has ...
Despite my general agreement with Richard Spencer's invariably provocative political commentaries, I definitely do not share his view that McCain is "set to go down hard" in November, no matter which Democratic ...
Gstaad is a very chic place and, alas, getting chicer by the minute as the nouveaux riche Russians and oily kleptocratic Arabs are closing in. Thinking about the way our alpine village used to be, I’m reminded of the time ...
Via John Derbyshire in National Review: a scenario that could turn the sternest paleocon into a raving ...
“The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating,” said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops. “I’m absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of ...
My last full-length essay on Taki evoked so many thoughtful comments, including essays by Daniel Larison and Richard Spencer (and a long opinion piece by Gerald Russello on the American Conservative website) that I am ...
The Giuliani campaign reminds me of the Japanese Empire towards the middle of 1945: One disaster after another. Let’s see. The Tokyo fire bombing took out 150,000 civilians and burnt most of the city; then came the ...
Once upon a time, there was a really troubling place known as Iraq that was fraught with inter-ethnic violence, tensions with a an occupying power, and some really bad kids called al-Queda who tempted the good folks with ...
New York had Joe Dimaggio. Boston had Ted Williams And Washington, D.C.? Well, we had Sammy Baugh, the greatest football player ever to pull on a jersey. ...
Here is good news. For any of you out there nostalgic for the lovable extra terrestrial, NASA is beaming out songs into deep space trying to lure anything that might be out there to our shores. The bad news is that ...
“Bush Boom Continues” trilled the headline over the Lawrence Kudlow column, as George W. Bush closed out his seventh year in office. “You can call it Goldilocks 2.0,” purred Kudlow. Yes, you ...
As Aeschylus observed nearly 2,500 years ago, "In war, truth is the first casualty." In the Palestinian territories, truth is being occupied by various factions and is in jeopardy of being eliminated altogether. ...
The death of Eve Curie Labouisse at age 102 brought back memories. She was Marie Curie’s daughter and the only one of her immediate family not to win a Nobel Prize. Her parents, Pierre and Marie Curie, won the Nobel ...
A demonstration against the "Islamicization of Europe" scheduled to take place in Brussels on September 11, 2007 and put together by the umbrella organization Pax Europa has been prohibited by the socialist mayor ...
Amongst the many conversations from many quarters about who might lead the Republican Party, I keep hearing one name time and time again—Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. So what’s so special about Jindal? While ...
From a profile of radio talk show host Brian Wilson, in the Toledo Blade: "‘Barack Obama admitted to doing a little nose candy back in his youth,’ Mr. Wilson said, sniffing his nose. ‘Shame and ...
Today we remember a great man who died to uphold universal, timeless values. I mean, of course, King Louis XVI"murdered at the hands of ultranationalist Jacobins (no, I don"t mean neocons) 215 years ago today. ...
President Obama is being hailed for toughness in his firing of Gen. McChrystal and brilliance in his replacing him as Afghan field commander with Gen. David Petraeus, who managed the George W. Bush “surge” in ...
