The following is a letter from Michael F. Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Unit, to the editor of Antiwar.com, regarding Congressman Ron Paul's exchange with Rudy Giuliani about why the al Qaeda network has targeted the United States. Sir, In the...
John Edwards wants to draft you and/or your children. Maybe we can opt out of military service by volunteering for hairdressing duty?
Presidency Unbound, The Unitary Executive in Practice
In Iran. Surely you didn't think Michael Ledeen would rile up his yahoo readers by dissing America the virtuous, did you? Naw, Michael's been wavin' the Stars & Stripes, drinkin' Gallo, and dancin' to John Philip Sousa over there in Italy. Ain't nothin' wrong with the...
A U.S. soldier in Afghanistan describes his work: Yes . . . F---ING Yes!!! I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty...
Mobs of cops were in Washington, DC last week for National Police Week. Their behavior was so bad that the DC police chief formally notified them that their public drunkenness would not be tolerated. Many of the cops were bicycling around to draw attention to their...
An astonishing piece by Andrew Sullivan in the Times of London on antiwar Republicans, featuring Ron Paul. Aside from the condescending airs and insulting description of Ron as a "crank" -- "even cranks have a point sometimes" -- Sullivan gives an enthusiastic account...
Ouch! I'm glad to see what's-his-name Matthew Yglesias is back in form after the transition to his new home on The Atlantic's blog -- and remind me never to get on his bad side.
Clearly, there are too many candidates to give all of the different points of view a fair hearing. What to do? I suggest two podiums. Behind podium one, Ron Paul; behind podium two, the other nine, in an orderly, grade-school water-fountain line. After each question...
From the latest issue of The American Conservative, a review by Peter Hitchens (the Good Hitchens) of John O'Sullivan's The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World: "I might add that Poland, though freed from the iron manacles of...
