Persuasive Case the Draft Is Coming

I have been skeptical about the likelihood of a military draft in the near future, but I am starting to think it is inevitable. In the Washington Monthly, Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris give a very persuasive case for the draft, given a commitment to an...

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‘Discovering the Network’

The little libelers over at "Discover the network" – David Horowitz’s hilariously inept datatbase of subversion – are demanding that I publish my "anti-Al Qaeda bona fides" – at least that’s how one Jacob Laksin puts it. Obviously unacquainted with...

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Conservatives Should Shun Horowitz

I love reading David Horowitz's Frontpage website, I have to confess, in part because it confirms my very low opinion of the War Party: I mean, where else could someone be so utterly clueless as to name his own blog "Moonbat Central"? Does Horowitz really mean to...

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A Peek Inside the Mind of a Lunatic

Stephen Schwartz sends a very telling assessment of "who's taken seriously":BTW, when I knocked Hunter Thompson I got 65 nasty emails. When I blasted Cat Stevens I got 50 nasty emails. When I got into this ridiculous exchange with you goofs over links etc. I got seven...

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Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch Week 119

With apologies to Slate, I now inaugurate Antiwar.com's Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch. As you probably already know, Schwartz threatened to sue us last week for hyperlinking to a photograph of him on The Atlantic Web site. After being laughed out of town for that by...

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Fact-Free Frontpagemag

In today's centersmear at Frontpagemag, a Steven Plaut writes:In a New York Times editorial, [Juan] Cole said that he saw the elections in Syria as a model for other Arab countries to follow: “The last thing the Arab people need is a red herring like ‘free and open...

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Uh, Stephen, if You Insist…

... on bombarding someone with spam, why not try Matt Welch, who issued this haymaker about you and your ilk a few weeks back:God, if there's something I'm tired of, it's former Trotskyites, or Castro-huggers, or Weathermen-sympathizers, lecturing me or anyone else...

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