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Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is…
–The Rolling Stones
Regarding Freddy Gray’s last, I wouldn’t assume that today’s stenographers of the royal court aren’t correct about the perception, if not the truth, of current events as they will be viewed a generation on, at least here in the States. A stable, oil-producing Iraq garrisoned by US [...]
Some neoconservatives wish we would. Here’s Michael Ledeen:
Once upon a time, we had leaders who supported freedom and did everything possible to bring down tyrants. But not today. Today we give feel-good speeches full of politically correct slogans, wrapped in the mantle of multiculturalism and multilateralism. Even [Condoleezza Rice]’s words are feeble. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, World
Today’s World Public Opinion survey on torture is quite fun. Respondents were put into three categories: “No torture at all”; “Limited use of torture to save innocent lives”; and “Torture should generally be allowed”.
Thirty-one percent of Americans said that torture should be allowed to save lives–five points higher than the international average–whereas the French, Spanish [...]
Filed under: World
Robert Lurie, writing in Chronicles about the Drive-By Truckers. A taste:
… the Drive-By Truckers represented the Old South and were a sort of rejoinder to R.E.M. But the label is not entirely appropriate, at least not in the way Old South is generally understood, for there is little antebellum splendor in the band’s lyrics. Rather, [...]
Bill Kristol is now trying to protect us from false advertising, deconstructing MoveOn’s anti-John McCain television commerrcial, Not Alex in his recent New York Times op-ed, “Someone Else’s Alex”. It takes one to know one. After all, this is the guy who not only managed a major account in one of the largest and most effective fraudulent marketing programs in [...]
The American Spectator held a breakfast earlier today with California state senator — and now Congressional candidate — Tom McClintock, a rare conservative among Golden State Republicans. Dave Weigel was there and has a good blog post here, noting that McClintock refused to take the bait when asked if he objected to Ron Paul’s foreign [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism
It’s extraordinary that in a complex modern democracy, so much comes down to the befuddled consciousness of a not very extraordinary man. We are seeing now the ramping up of a campaign to persuade George W. Bush to start a war with Iran before leaving office, so that President Obama would [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
On June 11, Barack Obama invited 43 evangelical leaders to Chicago for an off-the-record meeting. Stephen Strang, the founder of Charisma magazine, asked about abortion and reported Obama’s reply:
He came across at thoughtful and much more of a centrist that I would have expected. He did not appear to be the crazy leftist that is [...]
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
The debate over whether the media should have access to our war dead — the “ramp ceremonies” that solemnly accompany the bodies of our soldiers and Marines onto cargo planes for home from the battlefield, the flag draped coffins at Dover Air Force base when they arrive — was lost years ago by journalists and [...]
Filed under: War
I picked up a collection called Required Reading by Eugene McCarthy at the Book Eddy, Knoxville’s best book store, today. It is a collection of short pieces, mostly from newspapers, from the 1970s and 80s. One that stood out is called “Is America the World’s Colony” and was published in Policy Review in 1981. It [...]
Filed under: Books