Christopher Hitchens disses Lord Black, though his bile, the product of a feud two decades ago, seems tempered by his gradual convergence with the Borg ("I remember running into a very conservative gentleman in the corridors of the American Enterprise Institute a year...
Look whose praises Christopher Hitchens was singing 30 years ago. (Via Jonathan Schwarz. Dennis Perrin has further observations.)
Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad will appear in a segment on Good Morning America July 5. The show airs 7-9 a.m. Eastern.
I don't usually bother with the right-wing legal blog Volokh Conspiracy for reasons Jim Henley summarized years ago. So I was pleasantly surprised to find these comments on the Libby commutation. Orin Kerr: [W]hether Scooter Libby's original sentence was exactly...
I'm not done with Andrew Sullivan yet. You'll recall this from Friday: I’d say it means we need to tighten the sanctions, especially on gasoline. If we can economically strangle the theo-fascists, it’s far preferable to war. You hear this sort of thing all the...
On Wednesday, Jim Henley, in a post titled "All Is Forgiven," noted an important admission by Andrew Sullivan: "what marks conservatism is extreme prudence in initiating conflict, a principle I foolishly rushed past in the wake of 9/11." That's certainly all true, and...
In an effort to get to the bottom of this whole Whole Foods matter, I urge you to contact the company through this form and ask why they're such a bunch of fascists. Be sure to include the fact that you heard they are fascists from Jonah Goldberg, whose forthcoming...
Via David Weigel, I see that Jonah Goldberg's hotly anticipated (and anticipated... and anticipated) tome Liberal Fascism has a new working subtitle. Instead of The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton, it's now The Totalitarian Temptation from...
Johann Hari reports that the latest National Review cruise wasn't all caviar, pasty skin, and Pacific sun. There were also tempests: "It's customary to say we lost the Vietnam war, but who's 'we'?" Dinesh D'Souza asks angrily. "The left won by demanding America's...
You'd never know it from reading the pacifist, Islamofascist-appeasing media, but apparently Switzerland is not a free, peaceful, sovereign nation. Who are you gonna believe, Mitt Romney or Big Cheese/Chocolate/Clocks/Cutlery? Jim Henley pauses Mitt's slide show to...
