Great featured essay today by Chris Leithner on non-interventionism. Of the Founders, he writes, Far from being backward, xenophobic and the like, many possessed a keen interest in foreign languages, history, culture, technical and economic developments. Indeed, several ranked among the best literary, technical and commercial minds of the late-eighteenth century. On cultural, scientific and [...]
Over at NRO, Laurie Mylroie blows the Istanbul bombing case wide shut: It’s proof of an al Qaeda-Saddam connection! Meanwhile, the Turks, probably in an act of obeisance to their al Qaeda masters, say the terrorists were Kurds, with connections to U.S.-supported Bosnian forces, the once-U.S.-supported Osama bin Laden, but not to the once-U.S.-supported Saddam [...]
The Christian Science Monitor posts one item that is only for the Web: their Daily Update. Each day they pick a subject and do a review of the Web for that subject, like a single blog entry. Today they report on the FBI spying on the Antiwar Movement. Right in the middle, a single paragraph: [...]
The American Spectator dislikes little old me. True, when I stopped subscribing several years ago, I cut their readership by a quarter, but they should thank me now. Without the links I’ve been sending them, their online audience would consist of two guys grousing about the lack of Mena coverage. UPDATE 11/24: Jeremy Lott really [...]
The latest issue of Newsweek warns that al-Qaeda is building toward a “spectacular” attack. Intelligence sources tell Newsweek that “the neocons in the Pentagon have been undermining that relationship by accusing (without much proof) the Syrians of encouraging jihadists to cross into Iraq and of hiding Saddam’s WMD inside Syria.” The report goes on to [...]
A long time ago, pants were mended, not replaced. Books were borrowed, not bought. And people realized that cash was king and crap was crap. Try talking to your grandparents; get a sense of their Depression-era expectations. … Our expectations have become so inflated, in fact, that even how we classify “poor” has become totally [...]
