Friday, October 26, 2007

Conventional Wisdom on 2008 Could Be Wrong

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In his new column, " Hold Your Conventional Wisdom ," William Kristol gives three reasons why it's wrong to predict 2008 as th...

The Stark Truth About the Left

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With Representative Pete Stark's recent anti-Bush statements as the prompt, Michael Knox Beran at the National Review offers an excelle...

Francis Fukuyama and America's Self-Defeating Power

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Francis Fukuyama's got a piece up at RealClearPolitics arguing that the Bush administration's foreign policy has exacerbated global ...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Emerging Giuliani Doctrine

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Today's New York Times discusses the development of Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy , which is getting significant input from neocon...

Code Pink Protester Accosts Secretary of State Rice

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A radical activist from the antiwar group Code Pink thrust her red-painted hands in the face of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during ...

Break in Winds Give Firefighters a Chance

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My wife and I attended a parent-teacher conference yesterday with my youngest son's kindergarten teacher. She's a young woman. Her h...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Runaway Train: Hillary's White House Years

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Readers will recall that I've likened the inevitability of Hillary Clinton's 2008 Democratic nomination to the potential disaster of...

Thomas Friedman: Double-Reverse Chickendove

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Jules Crittenden's got a killer take-down of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in a post today at Forward Movement . Friedman...

The End of the Antiwar Movement?

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Eli Lake, a reporter and columnist for the New York Sun , argues that the antiwar movement has run its course : The People. United. Can in f...

Baby Boosters! Big Money Bundlers Seeking Underage Contributors

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The Washington Post reports on the new fundraising tactic of bundling campaign contributions from children: Although campaign finance laws...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Borking the Constitution

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Today's the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Senate's rejection of Robert Bork as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The failure...

Islamofascism

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Christopher Hitchens defended the terminology of "Islamofascism" in an article yesterday over at Slate . The notion of Islamofasci...

California Burning

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I think to myself every year: The rest of the county's got floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, but in California we get fires. It happens eve...

Progress in Iraq: The Complexity and the Reality

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Michael's Yon's latest dispatch from Iraq is available. The piece is a clear-headed report on Iraq's national transformation (t...
Monday, October 22, 2007

But If You Want Money For People With Minds That Hate...

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I often listen to The Beatles' " Revolution " during my weekday's drivetime. I love the hammering guitar introduction, but...

The Strangeness of Libertarianism

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Michael Kinsley praises libertarianism in his current essay at Time . The background is the contrast between the Democrats and Republicans ...

Victory is Within Reach

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Michael Ledeen, in the Wall Street Journal , argues victory's close at hand in Iraq : Should we declare victory over al Qaeda in the bat...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

John McCain and American Foreign Policy

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I've been eagerly awaiting John McCain's contribution to the Foreign Affairs Campaign 2008 series , and I'm not disappointed. I...

Bobby Jindal Wins Governorship of Louisiana

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Bobby Jindal, a GOP Member of the House of Representatives, won the governorship of Louisiana on Saturday, taking 53 percent of the vote in ...

Rejecting Rudy: Social Conservatives May Bolt From GOP

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This morning's Los Angeles Times reports that social conservatives will break with the GOP if Rudy Giuliani wins the GOP presidential n...