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Tom Toles’s cartoon in the Washington Post on Sunday captured the hero-worshipping attitude towards the Republican presidential candidate John McCain (presumptive) by the MSM, and especially by the press corps and the pundits in Washington, who seem to go out their way to be “fair” to their man, treating him with kid gloves and giving [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Iraq, Politics, War
Why is John McCain, the Republican senator and former POW who requests we “shed a tear” for all that is lost in war, not supporting a plan to improve college assistance to former GI’s? Never mind the pity party, most Iraq and Afghanistan vets want to get a life.
In recent weeks, reports have emerged indicating [...]
Examining the dynamics of Wall Street, it’s easy to conclude that normal investors–the millions of regular men and women with full-time jobs who trade a bit on the side or have big 401(k)s and IRAs–are sort of the pawns of the more sophisticated investors, who have regular access to inside knowledge and the ability to [...]
Filed under: Economics
One of the pleasures of my job is having a first look at our letters to the editor. I’ve learned that TAC should rename itself The American Liberal, that we either hate Jews or don’t hate Jews enough, and that disgruntled Republicans have an amazing affinity for a four-letter word other than Bush.
Most recently, the [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
One of the sillier parts of McCain’s speech on foreign policy last week was his warbling about a “League of Democracies”–the last thing the U.S. needs is to be part of yet another globalist institution. But it turns out that McCain didn’t think up the “League of Democracies” in between denouncing immigration opponents as [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Foreign policy
Readers, and not a few of our writers, have been clamoring for TAC to upgrade its web presence. And so we are: @TAC, our new group blog, will give our editors and writers a place to sound off regularly, and readers will get a daily dose of American Conservative goodness. Look for contributions by our [...]
Filed under: Announcements
On Thursday, March 20, “NBC Nightly News“ featured a reminder that for conservatives, there are no final victories.
The issue at hand isn’t the Nanny State, it’s the Carcinogen State. Specifically, CFL light bulbs containing ultra-toxic mercury, cheered on by the Greens, and now mandated by the federal government. And so a race is going to begin. Politicians [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
In the New York Times you can read another long item by Solomon Moore, “In an Uneasy City, Tough Test of Rebuilt Iraq Army,” marking the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War. Bottom Line: The Iraqi army will not be ready to take over anytime soon. I found the following discussion between American and Iraqi [...]
Filed under: Iraq