Some international relations analysts worry that the Bush regime has destroyed the prospects for nation-building. It's a variant of the "Iraq syndrome."Never fear, however, Bush allies have solved the problem: PR is the new nation-building.It's cheaper and yields better results.For me to prove my point, you've...
So Wolfie is now holed up in his office with a shotgun and a year's supply of Twinkies, and he's not coming out without a deal, ya stinkin' pigs.Meantime, Rick.
I know it's redundant to use a phrase like "Althouse reveals her ignorance," but in this post the dumb just clings to her words like fresh morning dew:And why does.
XM suspends Opie & Anthony 30 days for the hye-larious rape fantasies on their program. (I'm not going to say "jokes," because they weren't. They weren't even in the form of humor.) Although at least their program isn't simulcast on a major national news network, it's...
I'm not sure what's more depressing about yesterday's debate--the current frontrunner enthusiastically and unequivocally supporting torture, or how well in went over in the audience. Obviously, Giuliani's authoritarianism is going.
Garance, Matt and zuzu have already amply demonstrated the bad faith, distortions, and selective evidence of the latest manifestation of Christina Hoff Sommers's feeble "American feminists don't care about the.
Nancy Nall has a very good and insightful post about the new biography of Warren Zevon compiled by his long -suffering (and suffering, and suffering) ex-wife Crystal, which was also reviewed recently by Janet Maslin and Tom Carson. His most glaring flaws, especially his vanity and...
A toast of Campari, ginger ale and soda to Jerry.He told Christine Amanpour on CNN last week that he'd been praying to God for 20 more years of life so.
In the second half of my American Foreign Policy class every year, I try to get the students to talk about the risks of militarism. By then, they've read Walter.
To add to Matt's point that the perception that Wolfowitz is corrupt and hypocritical has actual consequences, it should also be noted that Wolfowitz is particularly vulnerable on this point because his anti-corruption program has been highly selective, and even worse has been selective in ways...
E.B. White Travis Bickle James Lileks on Disneyland:It’s clean. It’s so clean and perfect you wonder why everything doesn’t look like this. But why is it clean? You see no.
Shorter Verbatim Rubble Boy: "[University administrators are installing Wudu facilities for Muslim students] because people are afraid they'll blow things up."Now, Reynolds tries to disguise his jokey racism by suggesting.