On Hardball last night, political grandstander, liberal media agitator and suspected socialist John Lehman suggested that part of the problem with our domestic air response was due to a “jihad against defense spending in the 1990’s.” Rob, you want to take a whack at this grapefruit? Oh, what the heck, I’ll let Bill Clinton handle this one.
I’ve seen more expressions of anti-semitism from the European left than I would ideally like to see. Of course, I’d ideally like to see none, so that’s not saying much. And I’m
It’s difficult to find an issue so clear-cut that The Nation and eventheliberal New Republic agree, but both have great reviews of Sam Huntington’s new book, People Who Aren’t Wh
Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan both think that Muqtada Al-Sadr’s retreat and expressions of approval for the new government are a victory for the administration. That is certainly a point of view. A more accurate point of view would note that it was the US, not Sadr, who started the conflict. We shut down his newspaper, we […]
Cruising the blogosphere, checking out the reaction to the 9/11 report. . . Tacitus has a measured response. He acknowledges that Dick Cheney is a damned liar, but notes that the absence of evidence i
Should Bush look at the polls and dump Cheney, Gen. J.C. Christian proposes the logical replacement.
I’m surprised this quote from Bishop Deal W. Hudson that Josh Marshall IDed hasn’t gotten more play. But it’s an unusually candid admission about the nature of the jihad against pro-choice Catholic Democrats: “Once you open this door, what’s going to come rolling through it?” asked Deal W. Hudson, editor of the magazine Crisis and a key […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held, 8-1, that defendants can make a sexual harassment claim against an employer when the environment was so hostile that the defendant was compelled to resign. The one
David Neiwert points us to the cover story of Pat Buchanan’s The American Conservative: a love-in between the man himself and self-appointed spokesman for pure progressive bodily fluids Ralp
In a rare case of me being with the winning team, the winner of THE VICIOUS INSTAPUNDIT BLOGROLL CONTEST at MaxSpeak has been announced, and the winner is: InstaPundit. Let us first ponder the utter depravity of the winning comment, made by a tenured law professor: Civilized societies have found it harder, though, to beat the barbarians […]
Warning: The following is long, rambling, inconclusive and pointless. Read at your own risk. Most of you have probably figured out that Rob is the Guns and Scott is the Lawyers. I’m Money, but b
This quote from Tacitus is precious, even if I am appalled by it: Tacitus can’t admit he was wrong even in the face of facts! Which is to say, because I recognize that occupation policy has be