The Call Is Answered
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
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Propaganda of the deed
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
From Iraq, the Times reports “8 Civilians Killed in 2 Disputed Attacks”– one of the them being an American airstrike on a wife and three kids in Tikrit. Iraqi officials confirm the airstrike and the victims; the US military says it killed an “Al Qaeda terrorist” who fired on US troops, and claimed no [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Taking Care of Monkey Business
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Good to see some real work getting done on the Hill:
By a vote of 302-96 last week, the House of Representatives passed the Captive Primate Safety Act, a bold step on the road to outlawing pet monkeys. The House bill boasts 26 co-sponsors, including three from Illinois, Republican Mark Kirk and Democrats Jan Schakowsky and [...]
Filed under: Politics
Supreme Court Upholds Second Amendment
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
A pleasant surprise. Though as Butler Shaffer argues at LewRockwell.com, we shouldn’t take it for granted that the court won’t severely qualify the right to keep and bear arms in the future. Obama’s triangulating statement on the issue — he says he sort-of agrees with Heller, but still believes in restrictions — perhaps signals what [...]
Filed under: Courts
Doesn’t Play Well With Others
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Kara Hopkins
It would be hard to find a more discredited fount of foreign-policy wisdom than the man who said, “If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
Powell and Hagel Join the Obamacons?
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Robert Novak anticipates some additions to the ranks of conservatives for Obama — though he acknowledges that one problem with counting Colin Powell as a potential Obamacon is that the former secretary of state is not actually a conservative. Says Novak,
The prototypical Obamacon may be Larry Hunter, familiar inside the Washington Beltway as an [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
Summer Conventions: Set Your Tasers On Party!
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
There’s nothing like a battalion of local police armed with high-powered pepper ball rifles to get those gears of democracy turning.
So, missing the good vibes of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions of four summers ago, we lurch into the second series of post-9/11 political confabs, where the full authority of the Washington law [...]
Boston Twinkie Party
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Caleb Stegall offers his view on two recent books by Michael Pollan and reports on a secession movement among some Kansas farmers:
A few weeks ago I attended a meeting of Kansas secessionists. The participants were rowdy, complaining of economic gigantism squashing them flat and bureaucratic thugs hounding their every move. They were all sick [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
Save the War Nerd
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
The eXile, the Moscow-based alternative paper founded by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — and which has been home these past few years to occasional TAC contributor Gary Brecher, the War Nerd — has been shut down by Russian authorities. The website is still up (note: some racy content, which goes for most of the [...]
Cannon Shot Out
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Immigration restrictionists scored a big win yesterday, with the primary defeat of six-term Utah Republican Chris Cannon. His opponent, Jason Chaffetz, campaigned against birthright citizenship and amnesty, in contrast to Cannon, who long ago earned the ire of Republicans concerned about the border security and immigration. As the Politico notes:
Immigration was the driving [...]
Filed under: Congress, Election, Immigration