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The next issue of The American Conservative goes to print on Thursday. In the meantime, however, be sure to read Jeff Huber’s article on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — and why it’s a bad sign that he’s the one Bush cabinet member Obama has kept around. Also, don’t miss Reid Buckley appeal for a [...]
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“Where there is no solution, there is no problem,” geostrategist James Burnham once wryly observed.
Ex-Sen. George Mitchell, the latest U.S. negotiator to take up the Palestine portfolio, may discover what it was that Burnham meant.
For Israel’s three-week war on Gaza, where Palestinians died at a rate of 100 to one to Israelis, appears to have [...]
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A comment on this Matthew Yglesias post suggests Daniel Larison as a replacement for William Kristol at the Times, saying “Of course, that would indicate that the NYT’s “conservative” editorial choice is intended to make their readership think.” He would be a great choice, of course, although I don’t know if anyone at the paper [...]
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You probably thought that Kremlinology was a difficult undertaking.
Check this out:
Between Israel and the United States a gap has opened this week, a narrow gap, almost invisible – but it may widen into an abyss.
The first signs are small. In his inaugural speech, Obama proclaimed that “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
His last column ran today. I wouldn’t like what Kristol had to say in any event, but I agree with Jacob Heilbrunn, “hubris wasn’t Kristol’s problem. Rather the reverse. It seemed like his heart wasn’t really in it any longer.”
Heilbrunn sees Kristol’s departure as further evidence for the thesis (which he recently argued in TAC) [...]
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I purchased a pair of those hand grip excercisers today, but after reading the warning, I’m afraid to use them. The paper card they were attached to warns:
Consult your doctor before starting any exercise program. Exercise programs of any kind present an inherent danger to the participant. Serious or fatal injury can occur. All equipment [...]
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Regardless of what you think of the idea of appointing Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg to the U.S. Senate, she did not deserve the humiliating process she went through she went to just to say after all that, she wasn’t willing to be appointed by Gov. David Paterson. Instead, an obscure, upstate Congresswoman gets the nod. That’s all fine [...]
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It has emerged that Rachida Dati, France’s Justice Minister, is stepping down–reportedly at the behest of President Nicolas Sarkozy. It remains unclear exactly why. The official reason is that in June she will run for the Union for a Popular Movement Party (UMP) in the European elections and she can’t hold both positions at once.
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Somehow our leading representative of the anti-anti-McGovern coalition failed to link to this Washington Post op-ed (H/T Lee McCracken), in which the ex-Senator pleads with our new President to hold off on his promise to use the U.S. military to remedy things in Afghanistan:
I have believed for some time that military power is no solution to terrorism. The [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
With a host of near 2 million gathered on the Mall to see him sworn in, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural that was the antithesis of a rallying cry for the “it’s-our-turn!” faithful assembled below.
Rather, it was an admonition, a warning to the American people of the gravity of our condition, and an invitation of [...]
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