What is it about "hawkish" pundits that they can't understand nationalism?In Iraq, the leviathan has somehow managed to give the impression that what previous mid-rank powers would have regarded as a little light colonial policing has left it stretched dangerously thin and bogged down in an...
My contrarian cred is established! Seriously, it's a strange world in which any of my empirical analysis would even be considered controversial; as Ponnuru himself recently noted, pro-lifers who want.
I think it's time we dispense with this fiction:I think that [Drum's] reference to "casual genocide" as the preferred strategy of pro-war people is pretty clear, and pretty absurd. Yeah,.
In the light of Pat Gillick being sold several acres of North Dakota oceanfront property by Brian Cashman, Joe Sheehan asks a good question: How's that taxpayer-funded ballpark working out for you, Philadelphia?Yeah, I'm guessing when the taxpayers of Philadelphia were being bilked for the new...
Who knew?Day by day, even as Iran’s officials assess the military setbacks of Hezbollah, they have grown more and more emboldened by the gathering support in the Islamic world for.
Wow. Wouldn't that be a kicker, if Fidel picked this moment to shuffle off the mortal coil?Everybody knows that US Cuba policy wins no prizes for rationality. That the US.
Huh. I'll allow that I've probably had a .12 blood alchohol content my share of times, and I've certainly done things worthy of apology, but I don't recall ever blaming all wars on the Jews. Of course, I don't have to cover up for my dad...
Praktike is quite right; one of the things that has disappeared in a cloud of Lebanese dust over the past two weeks has been Condi Rice's reputation as a diplomat..
Erik in comments and Roy via email object to my snideness about JFK, and I'm willing to do at least a partial walkback. I certainly hold to my core assumptions:.
Remember when a whole bunch of reactionaries suddenly discovered women's rights as a club to bash people who opposed the high-cost replacement of a secular dictatorship with a low-capacity quasi-theocracy that would be at the mercy of sectarian militias? Oddly, I don't think we're going to...
Like Neil, I think Matt is being far too charitable to Dan Gerstein's silly attempt to defend Lieberman's pro-Alito vote. Or, to be more precise, I think Matt's half-defense is.
Well, I think the Braves dynasty can now be declared dead. It's been quiet since he played so poorly last year, but Carlos Beltran has been having a hell of.