Monday, November 26, 2007

Toward Moral Brinkmanship

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Shelby Steele, over at the Wall Street Journal , argues that Senator Barack Obama may be on to something with his suggestion for face-to-fac...

Beyond the Drop in Violence in Iraq

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Arianna Huffington dismisses Iraq progress in her post up this morning : In Sunday's New York Times U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocke...

Election '08 Could Top $5 Billion

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Al Hunt traces the likely scenario of campaign spending for federal elections next year, over at Bloomberg . We're looking at a likely $...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Howard's End: Labor Victory Down Under Strips U.S. of Key Ally

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I don't follow Australian politics closely, just enough to note that under the government of Prime Minister John Howard, the U.S. has ha...

Media is Getting it Right on Iraq: Democrats Next?

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Jeff Jacoby's Sunday commentary reviews the recent upbeat turn in press reporting on the war in Iraq. He wonders how long it will take ...

Democrats in Bind Over Iraq Progress

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The Democratic presidential candidates are shifting their tone in discussing the war in Iraq, as the New York Times reports : As violence d...

Heroic Conservatism

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George Will, one of the most principled conservavtive commentators today, has an analysis of Michael Gerson's new book, Heroic Conservat...

Making Sense of Ron Paul

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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch have an analysis of the Ron Paul phenomenon at the Washington Post : How to make sense of the Ron Paul revolu...

Alien Laborers Caught in Criminal Gang Raids

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Should U.S. authorities (and the American public) make distinctions among illegal immigrants based on gang membership status? The New York T...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Venezuelan Authoritarianism

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William Ratliff, at today's Los Angeles Times , provides a nice rejoinder to hard-left defenders of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez (re...

Celebrate Diversity: Vote Republican!

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I got a kick out of Mark Steyn's commentary this morning, at the Orange County Register . He notes that the real diversity in this year...

A Failed Democratic Retreat in Iraq

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Noemie Emery has an awesome piece in the new Weekly Standard , on the Democratic Party's relentless campaign to bring about an American ...

The Real Surge in Iraq

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DJ Elliot, over at The Long War Journal , highlights an extremely important development in the Iraq war: the growth and strengtening of the ...
Friday, November 23, 2007

A Thanksgiving Day Smackdown

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I was surprisingly tickled yesterday! I consider holidays like Thanksgiving to be political truce days among bloggers. So I was caught off g...

A Vote of Confidence on Iraq

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The Times of London has an editorial discussing the return of Iraqi refugees from Syria, via Dr. Sanity : The figures are hard to estimate...

The Demonization of Childbearing?

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I've always thought postmaterial ideology to be somewhat odd, while nevertheless explicable. This essay on women who refuse to have babi...

Thanking Our Troops

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Capt. James Key, a chaplain in the U.S. Army at Fort Irwin, Calififornia, has a wonderful commentary at this morning's USA Today : Last ...