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Don’t assume they’re not thinking about it. In fact they are. Seriously. Noah Shachtman at Wired found this scoop at Inside Defense (subscription only). One retired Lt. Col. George Crawford has written a report for the U.S Military’s Joint Special Operations University calling for a “National Manhunting Agency,” to train elite units of global terror-trackers [...]
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CNN Headline: Karzai calls for unity, end to corruption in Afghanistan
It is astounding to see the western media treat Karzai like a legitimate winner and someone who has any credibility to fight corruption.
This is akin to how the Soviet media treated the election “victories” of Stalin’s puppets in East Europe.
At least we now have a [...]
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The race for NY-23 seems to have developed in a positive direction for conservatives. The liberal Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, has withdrawn from the campaign, citing money and “electability” concerns. On balance, the Conservative Party challenger, Doug Hoffmann, a largely by-the-book man of the right, appears preferable to Scozzafava, who supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage, [...]
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Here in the Upper Midwest its Packers-Vikings week so pretty much everyone is gearing up for the big NFL game Sunday in Green Bay’s Lambeau Field. Minnesota is 7-1 and Green Bay is 4-2 and Brett Favre is making his first trip back to Green Bay since 2008. You can see how this affects football [...]
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I agree with some of the points Phil Giraldi makes here, (and have been receiving some mail today on the question of what are the American interests in the whole deal). But I think J Street is a big and dynamic enough phenomenon that it could well burst whatever boundaries its most conservative backers [...]
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I’ve spent the last two days at the first J Street Conference, an exciting and historic event. For those who don’t know, J Street is the new “pro_Israel, pro-peace” lobby formed by a younger group of American Jews, supportive of a two state solution, and willing to grapple with the idea that Israel has done [...]
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The literary journal is dead, long live the literary journal. Here’s a fairly hearty plug in the New York Times today for something called Electric Literature, a desperately trendy new journal aimed at hipster intellos. It is marketed solely for the e-readers — Kindle owners and so on — and endeavors to pay authors [...]
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As Veterans Day approaches, a gift of some good news. Thanks to a lot of lobbying by members of congress and vet organizations, and backed up by great reporting by the Army Times and by hundreds of personal testimonies and affidavits by individual soldiers and veterans, Congress has passed some tough new guidelines regarding the [...]
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Underneath Dan’s post about our special books issue, somebody called Angela has suggested that we invite @TAC readers to join in the “Best books you’ve never read” symposium. Great idea. What follows is a list of our contributors’ choices. Please, dear readers, comment on their nominations and add the names of your own favorite obscure [...]
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Tomorrow night, the leader of the British National Party, nasty Nick Griffin, will appear on the BBC’s “Question Time”, a political TV show in which panelists field questions from a studio audience.
The country has worked itself into an absurd state of mass hysteria about this televisual showdown. Upper lips are wobbling throughout the Isles. [...]
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