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The innocent looking DVD for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off contains a scary featurette –”The World According to Ben Stein.”
I’ve taken a peek or two into that world, and it’s too horrifying to contemplate.
Filed under: Culture
Jesse Walker has an interesting take on the Keyes/CP story. “It’s a small but satisfying victory for two noble though possibly lost causes: the movement to end the occupation of Iraq and the transideological coalition to get Alan Keyes to shut up.”
I think that the first goal will be easier to achieve than the latter. [...]
Filed under: Politics
James Poulos who also attended the TNI on Thursday argues that China poses more of a long-term threat to U.S. interests than Russia:
To wit, the US and China have a much closer and more important economic relationship than the US and Russia, but in the short, medium, and long term, the rise of China poses a [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Freddy will be disappointed to hear that perpetual candidate Alan Keyes has fallen short of the Constitution Party’s presidential nomination. The Constitution Party — back then it was the U.S. Taxpayers’ Party — was founded in the early 1990s in the hopes of getting Pat Buchanan to make a third-party run in ‘92. What liberals [...]
Filed under: Politics
If you receive all of your information from Glenn Reynolds, you would get the idea that the current food shortage/crisis/panic is the fault of Al Gore. Reynolds links to a dishonestly framed New York Sun article headlined, “Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries.” The reporter, Josh Gerstein, writes “Ethanol was initially promoted as a [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Dan, I know all about military socialism, having experienced it first hand. I can only imagine the effect of growing up in such circumstances. Six years in the Marine Corps Reserve helps explain the trajectory of my political views. When I joined I was a neocon subscriber to National Review, The American Spectator and Commentary. [...]
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The Christian Science Monitor picks up a thread Bill Kauffman has recently discussed: how his experience as a military brat shaped John McCain’s worldview. The Monitor’s Todd Crowell, a brat himself, writes:
What makes a military brat different?
For one thing, we brats have very little sense of our roots, although perhaps as a way of compensating, [...]
The few people in US intelligence circles who were actually allowed to review the evidence provided by the Israelis regarding the alleged Syrian nuclear facility have called it “bullshit.” Perhaps the mainstream media should note the implausibility of the tale being spun given the inability of Syria to support any nuclear program. They should challenge [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
I attended an interesting discussion on U.S. relationship with Russia and China that was held by the National Interest magazine on Thursday, during which Harry Harding raised an important point (and this is not a direct quote): American officials, lawmakers and pundits tend to portary U.S. policy moves towards China (and other powers) as responses to [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Andrew Sullivan recommends Judith Miller. And then there is Alex Debat, if you need some stuff on global terrorism (and more), or contact Janet Cooke to find info about DC’s low-income neighborhoods, and don’t forget Stephen Glass who is a great source on conservatives who party. And let’s hope that Miller is not pulling a Clinton again.