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During the First World War, France fought on against the German invaders for four long years, despite having more of its soldiers killed than all the American soldiers killed in all the wars in the history of the United States, put together.
But during the Second World War, France collapsed after just six weeks of fighting [...]
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Writing on libertarians, my Scene colleague Peter Suderman says:
The signal trait of most (semi-sane) libertarians (myself among them) I’ve met has been contrarianism. It’s a reflexive inability to let prevailing wisdom pass without critical comment. This is why libertarians are generally ineffectual as a political force: consensus is almost impossible when everyone refuses to engage [...]
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Commenting on Patrick Ford’s post, Rod says:
It will be a good day when it becomes possible to criticize the excesses of American consumerism without being pilloried from the Right for being some kind of America-hating lib symp.
A good day, and also a distant one. Not to dwell too much on old controversies, but I am [...]
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Schieffer: You heard what Sen. Lieberman said. He said that Barack Obama is simply more ready to be President than Barack Obama.
Clark: Well, I think Joe has it exactly backwards.
In the midst of all of the to-do about Wesley Clark’s comments, the most entertaining part of the exchange has been lost. I have to say that I [...]
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There is something amusing about the fact that Obama gave his address on patriotism the same day that this argument came out, since whatever truth there is about Obama’s alleged foreign policy “particularism” he reminded everyone today that he is not interested in any other kind of particularism:
That is why, for me, patriotism is always more than [...]
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The death penalty seems to worry Reihan.
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I don’t think Obama is really “moving to the center” on FISA, NAFTA, guns, or even taxes. He is, to the contrary, being the authentic Obama: cautious, fairly risk-averse, willing to change his mind as facts (and sometimes political currents) warrant. The broad expanse of his policies remain center-left — or left-center. ~Marc Ambinder
Ambinder is [...]
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In response to such mockery, it is only right to offer this performance by Prabhu Deva and the inestimable Kajol from the Tamil film Minsaara Kanavu. Music is by the great composer A.R. Rahman.
P.S. Another version of the song from the same movie.
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Apparently Limbaugh took aim at Ross and Reihan’s book yesterday, mostly complaining about Brooks’ references to their acknowledgement of conservative aspects of the New Deal. While constitutionally the New Deal was nothing but usurpation and what Garet Garrett called “revolution within the form,” institutionally it built the foundations of the postwar managerial state that conservatives find objectionable [...]
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Toby Harnden is a smart politcal correspondent for the Telegraph, but like a lot of observers this week he has a mistaken interpretation of Obama’s response to the death penalty ruling that came down on Thursday:
Obama’s a Mid-western senator rather than a Southern governor so he won’t have the opportunity Clinton had to fly back [...]
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