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The headline of the September 23 Washington Post read, “Less Peril for Civilians, but More for Troops.” The theme of the article was that restrictions General Stanley McChrystal has imposed on the use of supporting arms in Afghanistan, with the objective of reducing Afghan civilian casualties, have increased American casualties. The Post reported that since [...]
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I missed Jon Stewart interviewing Ron Paul last night. But, here, in case anybody hasn’t seen it:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Ron Paul Interview
What a great man.
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I saw Pat Buchanan on MSNBC’s Chris Matthews the other night, laughing off Bill Clinton’s latest invocation of the “vast right wing conspiracy.” Mr. Buchanan claimed Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Karl Rove, et al, couldn’t organize a softball game, much less hatch the kind of sturm und drang necessary to upend a presidential career. What [...]
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Bruce Bartlett seems annoyed, and understandably so. His blogged objections to the HR1207 ‘Audit the Fed’ bill have transformed him into a hate-figure among the disciples of Ron Paul. His initial post on the subject, about which Dan wrote yesterday, prompted abuse in its comments section … and presumably elsewhere.
Bartlett writes,
Apparently, the Ron Paul cult [...]
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It is well known that, more than other sportsmen, golfers tend to hold conservative views. Of course, that is because golfers are often outrageously boring, management-speak babbling, corporate wonks who never tire of issuing trite comparisons between the game of golf and the game of making money. “The key to success in golf is like [...]
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I disagree with Michael Lind about many things, but in his new Salon essay he provides the best short description I’ve seen of how the makers of U.S. foreign policy think:
The Pax Americana strategy requires its supporters to exaggerate the power and malevolence of the designated enemies of the Pax Americana: Russia, China and Iran. [...]
That Iran is building a secret underground facility near the holy city of Qom, under custody of the Revolutionary Guard — too small to be a production center for nuclear fuel, but just right for the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade — is grounds for concern, but not panic.
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Andrew Bacevich has a piece up at the Washington Post arguing that the U.S. should approach the war on terror like the Cold War; specifically we need a new doctrine of containment, which for Bacevich means everything from decapitation strikes (though not ones that kill civilians — as if any decapitation can be clean) to [...]
Freddy, fears about what Congress might do to the money supply if the Fed is audited are understandable but misplaced. Contra Bartlett, you’re more likely to get Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation under the Fed than with Congress dictating the money supply — politicians, for all they are in bed with Wall Street, are still more vulnerable to [...]
Ron Paul’s HR 1207 “Audit the Fed” bill, about which the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing last week, is being widely dismissed on the Right as a dangerous exercise in kookiness. Bruce Bartlett, the reformed Reagan-era supply-sider, says it is “abundantly clear that this is a crackpot idea.”
Whatever one thinks of the [...]
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