Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. If President George W. Bush’s main purpose in visiting the Gulf last week — as indicated by his call in Abu Dhabi last Sunday to...
Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service's Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. If you need an example of just how sophomoric both Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and AEI’s Michael Rubin can be, don’t miss Rubin’s...
Related to James Bovard's question about the war and the Michigan primary, here are some indications of how the war may be affecting the primary. According to Strategic Vision, 39% of Republicans support withdrawal for American forces from Iraq in the next six...
Unfortunately, I don't live in Michigan [!] - but I'm curious on the big vote on Tuesday -  How are the presidential candidates playing the Iraq war issue in the Michigan primary? Are any candidates running radio or TV ads explicitly opposing or supporting the...
CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday's New Hampshire primary and found that "among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole...
The first installment of my review-essay of Murray N. Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right, entitled "The Real American Right," is now up at Taki's Top Drawer. The second installment is up tomorrow, and the third on Wednesday. I have to say that I'm really...
Tom Tomorrow on the charmed life of Bill Kristol:
As I warned during last year's incident with the British sailors and the Iranians in the Gulf, an indeterminate border between Iraq and Iran in that area is eventually bound to lead to more incidents, and now it's happening: "Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats...
I've been covering the AIPAC spy case since CBS broke the story of US secrets stolen by top officials of Israel's number one Washington lobbyist, way back in late summer of 2004. Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, AIPAC honcho Steven Rosen, and the Lobby's number...
Matt Yglesias captures the spirit of John McCain as the essence of militarism: "For McCain, a certain culture of honor, militarism, and nationalism are their own reward. The military is to be celebrated and supported not for what it does but for what it is. Thus, a...
