Look Who’s Talking!

Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: "THE NYT'S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It...

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Somebody tell Nick Gillespie…

As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American "democracy"-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning -- "some came on crutches" -- over the fake...

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You Got That Right

Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq: "Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted...

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Beyond the Hype

Getting beyond all the self-congratulatory hype in the American media, the London Independent offers this perspective from Iraq: "The Americans have repeatedly charged that Iran was interfering in the election and bankrolling Shia Islamist parties such as Dawa and the...

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Is Sistani Iraq’s Khomeini?

My Monday column calls the election "Sistani's Triumph," and suggests that the government that comes out of Sunday's poll will be closer to the Iranian model than the American system. Here's the conservative columnist Terry Jeffries, in a column published in May of...

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Live-blogging Pat and Frum on “Hardball”

I'm live-blogging Pat Buchanan and David Frum squaring off on "Hardball" with Chris Matthew. There's Commissar Frum looking smarmy and green. Ewww... And there's Pat, looking his usual great self. Frum :This is part of a broader struggle. This shows the entire Middle...

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