Appropos my recent column on John McCain’s foreign policy views, and especially this piece in the current issue of The American Conservative, check out this Bizarro McCain:
Live-blogging the GOP Debate
I'm over at Taki's Top Drawer, live-blogging the GOP debate: and look at all those cool pictures!
Media Bias, 101
A lesson in media bias -- the headline of the CNN International story give us one narrative: "Kremlin critic barred from election" ... And the body of the piece reports quite another: "Russia's Central Election Commission disqualified one of Kremlin's critics from the...
The History of the Anti-Interventionist Right
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...
The War Party Never Rests
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...
The AIPAC Spy Trial: A Case of Prosecutus Interruptus
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...
McCain Means War
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...
Pakistan: Worse Than I Thought
Contrary to what I say in this morning’s column, it looks increasingly likely that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the work, not of Al Qaeda, but of elements within the Pakistani government itself. Not necessarily Gen. Pervez Musharraf, but of a faction...
Ron Paul’s Disgraceful Ad
This new Ron Paul ad is absolutely, outrageously, tragically wrong: “No visas for students from ‘terrorist nations’� Rarely has a more ignorant proposal been advanced – and it is made even worse by the fact that this is Ron Paul we’re talking about. To...
Neocons Down,
But Not Out
Looks like I spoke too soon: in Friday’s column: I wrote that Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer are being dropped by Time magazine, because Americans are "done with pundits like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer who were dead wrong about the war, and whom...


