US Nullifies INF Treaty

Vladimir Putin is threatening to withdraw from the INF Treaty, and, as the world's attention is fixed on the disaster unfolding in Iraq, the disarmament agreements reached in the waning days of the cold war are coming unraveled. The reason: the US is oufitting its...

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AP — Lost in Cyberspace

In a lawsuit that epitomizes the sheer stupidity of the Old Media, and its complete ignorance of the new technology, the Associated Press is suing news-aggregation site Moreover -- and parent company VeriSign -- for copyright infringement for linking to its...

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All Is Forgiven

I have consistently criticized Americans Against Escalation in Iraq -- an antiwar group that has been running antiwar ads and doing grassroots political work -- for what I viewed as their partisan strategy in pursuing an end to our involvement in Iraq, particularly...

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Hitchens Unhinged

Wow! If even half of what Richard Poe claims in his "Hitchens Unhinged" piece over at Taki's Top Drawer is true, what remains of the drink-soaked Trotskyist poppinjay's reputation is shot. Here's a hot excerpt: “At the end of the event as he staggered, sweating and...

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Mystery Achievement

All that blather about how the Israelis hit a "nuclear site" or a site with "nuclear materials" in Syria the other week was really just a lot of hooey, but then again you knew that. Otherwise they wouldn't have kept it such a Deep Dark Secret, now would they? Surely...

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Those Mugs

Daniel Larison nails it: "Neocons were once 'liberals mugged by reality,' but now they are people who would like to mug reality–and strafe it and bomb it–in the name of liberalism (broadly defined)." 

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Weekend Blog Reading

Dan McCarthy, Richard B. Spencer, and Jim Antle -- all of whom might be broadly perceived as paleocons-with-libertarian-sympathies -- have started a foreign policy blog, Exit Strategies, and it's a great read: I especially liked two posts by Spencer: "Les Neocons,"...

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