The Smear Bund never rests -- not even on Christmas. Especially not on Christmas. And they've been really active lately, what with Ron Paul gaining in the polls and in the hearts and minds of a growing number of young people: we can't have that! I've waded through the...
All the cool stuff I'm not allowed to write about on Antiwar.com goes to Taki's Top Drawer. The Huckster bloviates about education, why Rudy's off his game (hurrah!), Alan Keyes is either high or nuts, the Paulista rebellion against the neocons at National Review,...
Just coming across the wire: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent $16,000 on flowers this year. Of course, not one was strewn on the grave of a soldier who fell in the senseless war in Iraq she and her party have continued to fund. According to her office, all...
A recent short piece in The Nation, "Ron Paul's Roots," by Christopher Hayes, has this eye-popping denunciation of Rep. Paul by the unbearably pompous Brink Lindsey, a Cato Institute "scholar" and recently appointed vice president for research, "He doesn't strike me...
A letter from Eric, a reader, who elaborates on the theme of my column today on "Dynasties and Democracy": I wish to point out that there have been other American observers who noted the rise of dynastic politics in the United States . To be specific: Kevin Phillips,...
New York Times headline: "Georgian Leader Says Emergency Rule to Last as Needed." As needed -- for what? Funny you should ask ....
Some very interesting details in the 14-count indictment of Berne Kerik, Rudy Giuliani's protege and recommended nominee for Homeland Security chief, with some serious implications for Rudy's reputation as the security candidate, are analyzed over at Taki's Top...
The death of author Norman Mailer stills an eloquent voice in defense of the old America -- the pre-9/11, pre-neocon -dominated America, which disdained the idea of empire. During the Vietnam war, whilst in attendance at Truman Capote's famous "Black and White...
If you want to see the true heart and soul of the neoconservative style, go on over to Commentary -- where else? -- and direct your attention to one Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor, who is calling for former CIA honcho Michael Scheuer to be ... jailed! Why? Well,...
How dumb is Gabriel Schoenfeld? Pretty damned dumb, if we take his recent series of blog posts at Commentary as indicative of his mental capacity: he's written a whole series of posts directed at former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, the latest one entitled (for some...
