Al Qaeda is as strong as it was before 9/11, and the American "counter-attack," according to a new National Intelligence Estimate -- and so the "war on terrorism" we've been fighting all this time has been for nought. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to...
The pro-war blowhard Christopher Hitchens is one of those former leftists-turned-neocons who changed his spots but not his soul, which is that of a power-worshipper. Back in the 1970s, when it looked like socialism might be the wave of the future, he was a Trotskyist...
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Screw James Kirchick.
I see, via Brian Doherty over at Reason, that Scooter Libby is still going to have to pay a fine, and he'll also be on probation. Now there's a job -- Scooter Libby's probation officer. I suppose Scooter will have to stay away from the CIA, and he certainly won't be...
Hey folks, I'm blogging over at Taki's Top Drawer, starting today. Check it out.
Michael Rubin, formerly of the Coalition Provisional Authority, writes a regular feature for National Review Online, a summary with links of the Iran-related news of the day. A hardcore neocon whose journalistic and other credentials have often been in conflict,...
In what has to be the defining moment of the post-9/11 era, the Washington Post reports that the Jefferson Memorial building is sinking into the mud of Washington, D.C.
Fred Kaplan, writing in Slate, opines: "It's time to start thinking cold-bloodedly about what we might yet eke out of Iraq. An intriguing possibility is on display in Anbar province, where U.S. troops have formed an alliance with Sunni insurgents for the common...
In this selection from "World War I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals," Murray Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early "progressives" with the militaristic world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh...
