The End, or Just the Beginning?
Andrew Sullivan avers that “a McCain nomination means one thing for sure. The era of legal, authorized torture in America is coming to a close.” So they’re going to stop torturing those guys in ...
Andrew Sullivan avers that “a McCain nomination means one thing for sure. The era of legal, authorized torture in America is coming to a close.” So they’re going to stop torturing those guys in ...
I love this quote from a McClatchy News Service piece on Ron Paul: “‘He’s definitely an enigma,’ said Allen Cumbie, the head of the Democratic Party in Matagorda County, Texas. ‘I don’t ...
He's the conscience of the Republican party, or, at least, of its conservative wing " a reminder of the good old days, when being a right-wing GOPer meant never having to say you voted to raise taxes, or to increase the ...
Minoritarianism: five percent of the population imposing their standards on the other 95 ...
Given the rather grim prospects for antiwar voters this election, it is understandable why many look to Obama and think that they have found someone they can trust. But this is a mistake. It isn’t that Obama is wrong ...
Something interesting happened as I was waiting on Sunday for a train at Penn Station in Manhattan. The experience was so amusing and so utterly revealing that I still can’t dislodge it from my mind. A lady was ...
When President Bush sold the Iraq War to the American people, he claimed that refusing to act was unacceptable as the crisis of global terrorism required immediate action. Said Bush in 2002 "Some have argued we should ...
With a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the “it’s-our-turn!” faithful assembled below. ...
There is an old adage on Wall Street that no one rings a bell at major market tops or bottoms. That may be true in normal times, but as many have noticed, we are now completely through the looking glass. In this parallel ...
“Where there is no solution, there is no problem,” geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed. Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it ...
An announcement received on my email indicates that Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, has been invited to Heritage Foundation on October 18 to deliver a "lecture" on "The Israeli Lobby and the ...
When America declared a “war on poverty” in the 1960’s, it was believed that even more assistance by the federal government would lead to eradicating the problem. What we got instead was bigger government ...
How they intend to take the nomination away from Obama, without necessarily resorting to the “super-delegates”: I think Derb’s on to something. That doesn’t mean Obama won’t be on the ...
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 ...
For conservatives fretful over the future of the party to which they have given allegiance, How Barack Obama Won: A State by State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election reads like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. ...
During dark days I’m convinced that those who set themselves up to rule over us are knaves and poltroons to a man and woman: on the good days I’m willing to admit that there might indeed be those of probity, ...
If we evaluate Sunday's Ron Paul r3VOLution March according Kevin's "Rules for Radicals," then it comes out pretty well. "Rowdiness in moderation" must be some kind of conservative ideal, and the crowd ...
As for calling addiction an illness, that's ...
Sid is correct to call attention to the often dishonest application of "right" and "left" categories in describing an American political situation in which traditional ideological labels are less and less ...
It’s hard to know how to feel about the fact that Sen. Obama’s, er, “racialist” background has finally emerged above the waterline—suggesting that his campaign may have “jumped the ...
The front page of the Globe and Mail in Vancouver, where I was lecturing last week, explained on March 12 that the "sex scandal" that had engulfed former Governor Eliot Spitzer and which had precipitated his ...
Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his widely discussed address at Columbia University last week maintained that homosexuals do not exist in his country, the neocon-Republican war squad has gone into high gear stressing the ...
I find the fact that Bernard Madoff is walking around free and smoking cigars an outrage. The press and media have reported that his two sons gave him away. That’s almost as big a lie as Madoff’s life and ...
Here’s a bagatelle, a French word denoting something unimportant, however cute. It has to do with Paul Gottfried. History has repeatedly proved that the nobility has always been better fitted for the business of ...
