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So this week’s New York Times article by Brookings Institute experts arguing that we may yet be able to win the war has sent a tidal wave of hope through the pro-war camp and a chill down the backs of the Democratic Party defeatist. ~Tony Blankley
A tidal wave? Good grief, these people are desperate!
Speaking on […]
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Caplan divides them into three categories: antimarket bias, antiforeign bias, make-work bias and pessimistic bias. Antimarket bias describes people feeling that trade and profit are zero-sum games, that one person’s gain is another person’s loss. They haven’t learned that free exchange is win-win and that in a free market, profit comes from cost-cutting innovation. Antiforeign […]
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Look: Ross is a smart guy [bold mine-DL]. He knows perfectly well that modern liberals have no serious connection to eugenics advocates of the past. He knows perfectly well that abortion supporters aren’t motivated by eugenicist theories. He’s not using the word out of a dedication to scientific precision. Rather, he and his fellow conservatives […]
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Shorter Michael Gerson: we need to bribe other governments in order to fight corruption.
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According to John Savage, I have supposedly argued this:
“Progressives” who support abortion on demand cannot logically argue against eugenics, such as was carried out by pre-WWII progressives who supported forced sterilization for the sake of reducing the numbers of “feebleminded” people.
This is what I actually said:
Every time someone on the left endorses the “right” to […]
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This bipartisan consensus is all the more striking because it is increasingly out of step with the majority of the American people. A poll conducted by the Washington think tank Third Way in March found that respondents favored protecting the security of the United States and its allies over promoting freedom and democracy in the […]
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“I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman,” quipped Romney while campaigning in New Hampshire. ~The Evening Bulletin
Well, that works out nicely, since I think the presidency ought to be held to a higher level than allowing it to be sought by a […]
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While Kevin Drum continues to embarrass himself, Ross has another good post on one particular angle of the debate over the designation “progressive.” The “meme” of progressives as supporters of eugenics and sterilisation comes from the history of early 20th century progressivism. (Or you can try the short version: just watch Gattaca and see whose politics […]
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I agree with Djerejian–any description of the confrontation between the U.S. and Iran as a second Cold War is just ridiculous. Are we involved in a similar “cold war” with Venezuela? Maybe we should ask that master strategist, Rick Santorum! Yeah. To label every standoff between Washington and a regional power as a “new Cold War” is at once […]
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Hey, Fred, Where’s The Cattle?
Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in June, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to Republican sources. ~The Politico
Via Jason Zengerle
The funniest part of the article comes a little later:
He attracted […]
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David Corn has a pretty good critique of Fred the Neocon, but he doesn’t delve deeply enough for my taste. You don’t have to go back to early days of the Iraq war to find Fred’s sympathy with aggressive, interventionist foreign policy. He has been declaring it for all to hear for the past few months. His recent London speech is a […]
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What is Washington to do in the dilemma of two friends battling each other on an unwanted new front in Iraq? The surprising answer was given in secret briefings on Capitol Hill last week by Eric S. Edelman, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and now under secretary of defense for policy. A […]
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Egemen Bagis, foreign policy advisor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Turkish forces were prepared to mount operations against Kurdish PKK fighters who had taken refuge in Iraq, because the US had failed to intervene.
“We are hoping we will not have to do it. We are hoping that our allies will start doing something, but if […]
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Is it just me, or is this Yglesias post about his first ever visit to West Virginia this weekend really strange? I suppose it’s really not that important, but it strikes me as a little unusual that someone who has been living in D.C. for years would have never gone to, or at least through, […]
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Both Obama and Paul are internet-driven candidacies, crammed with small donations and hyper-enthusiastic volunteers. They are also representative of a budding and clear revival of what can only be called neo-isolationism. And they have the wind in their sails. ~Andrew Sullivan
Sullivan’s discussion of this “neo-isolationism,” if you want to call it that, has some interesting […]
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Anne-Marie Slaughter’s op-ed in the Post makes about as much sense as all of those teary-eyed columns written last summer about how poor Joe Lieberman was being “purged” from his party by “extremists.” It hails from the same ideological universe: this is the place where being “moderate” and “centrist” consists in adopting the most irresponsible […]
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Even though most Americans don’t know anything about the Obama-Clinton spat, it has become a notable dispute between the rivals. When I heard the answers from the two candidates, I thought Obama’s response was a bit odd. I knew what he meant, and I could even see how he could argue for meeting with, say, Assad […]
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Galbraith has long been a consultant to the Kurds and, long before that, a passionate advocate for their cause. Still, an objective case can be made that the United States has a moral and strategic interest in Kurdish independence. Redeploying troops to the Kurdistan region accomplishes four goals, Galbraith argues. It “secures the one part […]
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Though the Bush Administration is glibly mocked for making Mr. Musharraf an “exception” to the Bush Doctrine, the U.S. has no interest in destabilizing a nuclear-armed government already under a jihadist threat. ~The Wall Street Journal
Without pre-empting any of my forthcoming column, let me say very briefly on a separate question that it is not the toleration […]
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This Noam Scheiber op-ed makes some interesting points about the DLC and its increasing irrelevance to the debates within the Democratic Party. He is not arguing quite the same thing as I was in my TAC article on neoliberalism (sorry, not online) a couple months ago, and I may have given the DLC more credit as a going […]
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Think for a moment about just how arrogant that is. The Japanese should ignore how well their government is, you know, governing and instead make their electoral decisions based on how well their leaders serve what right-wing U.S. pundits think are our interests in the area. Clearly, after all, the most important thing for the […]
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In an otherwise superb piece on the (often cynical) political and lobbying battle over the Armenian genocide resolution, Michael Crowley has this unfortunate line:
Most Armenian-Americans are descended from survivors of the slaughter and grew up listening to stories about how the Turks, suspecting the Orthodox Christian Armenians of collaborating with their fellow Orthodox Christian Russians [bold mine-DL] during […]
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Matt Yglesias recommends to us an old Robert Kaplan article on the virtues of the AKP. Since I am a pretty convinced AKP-phobe, if that is what we can call it, I thought I would take a look. Within two sentences I decided that the article cannot be a very credible source of insight on modern […]
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But on the whole, Rowling’s wizarding society conforms to boringly conventional gender roles. Dads, like the loveable Mr. Weasley (father of red-headed sidekick Ron), go off to work while steadfast moms stay home cooking, cleaning, and rearing large families. ~Dana Goldstein (some Deathly Hallows spoilers included)
Via Steve Sailer
Of course, there’s every reason in the world to […]
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Eschewing their former role as advocates for and enforcers of GOP political suicide (as leading champions of anti-fundraising efforts and promoters of primary challenges against moderate “surge” dissidents), the Victory Caucus is reborn as the pure propaganda outfit that it was always meant to be. The great imitators of MoveOn have settled for their much more natural role […]
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