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Picking up sandwiches today for the trip up to Lake George, I scanned the front page of the Times. This interrupted my pleasant stay at the deli:
Europeans admire Mr. Obama’s political skills, and welcome his apparent readiness to respect opposing points of view. For many here, that raises the prospect of a sharp break with [...]
Filed under: Politics
Congratulations to John Schwenkler. I find few things more satisfying than to be attacked by the likes of P.J. Gladnick at NewsBusters. Mr. Gladnick goes so far off the deep end in his first sentence, there is little need to read further. “There has been a trend in recent years for liberals to try to [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
The Benny Morris op-ed in the NYT last Friday should provide convincing evidence that Israel really really really wants an attack against Iran sooner rather than later. Morris is close to the Israeli government and his case that Iran must be bombed soon and with maximum conventional weaponry to avoid using nukes later was clearly intended [...]
Filed under: War
Like every other VIP that’s flown into the Green Zone for the dog & pony-grip & grin, Barack Obama was transported safely from Iraq 48 hours later, leaving tens of thousands of US troops behind. In his wake, the media attention and with it, the mind-numbing debate over timelines and time horizons and status of [...]
In my July 14 TAC article about Chuck Baldwin’s Constitution Party presidential candidacy, I noted, “In California, the outgoing chairman of the American Independent Party has been trying to list [Alan] Keyes as the nominee rather than Baldwin.” That move appears to have succeeded: The California secretary of state’s office has recognized Ed Noonan and [...]
There has been much chatter about Megan McArdle’s statement in a New York Times article about how conservatives are handling the possibility of Republican defeat in the fall:
Indeed, to Ms. McArdle, the possibility of a Republican defeat holds a certain romantic appeal. “Younger people are kind of excited about being in the wilderness,” she [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
TAC is on vacation for a fortnight. Check your newsstands, mailboxes, and bookstores in the coming week for our summer issue, which features (among much else) Leon Hadar on the failure of nation-building in Iraq; “Southern Avenger” Jack Hunter on Senate contender Bob Conley, a Ron Paul Democrat in South Carolina; Andrew Michta on the [...]
Filed under: Announcements
The right-wing media is abuzz today with the news that the New York Times has rejected John McCain’s editorial responding to Barack Obama’s recent op-ed in the Times. The Drudge Report puts it rather simply: “An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a [...]
Filed under: Election
Barack Obama has arrived for his much-anticipated visit to Baghdad today, along with stalwart Bush critics Sens. Jack Reed, D-RI and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. As they’ve been crying all week, the Right Wing talkers are dismissing the trip as a media love fest, designed to help Obama earn his foreign policy creds like an online [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve just learned (tardily, as usual) from Tom Piatak at Taki’s that University of Minnesota professor and blogger of the unfortunately common uber-glib school (casual conversational tone, replete with gratuitous obscenities), PZ Myers, outraged at the reaction of a Catholic church to a student protester spiriting away (excuse the expression) and defiling the Eucharist, has [...]
Filed under: Religion