Catching Up With Kanan Makiya

In an interview with The American Prospect, liberal interventionist darling and Ahmed Chalabi lackey Kanan Makiya lets slip just how much he knows about present-day Iraq: "Of course I still support the war," he says with a pained expression on his face. "How can I...

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Free Lunch Still Yet to Be Found

Well, we're four days into our quarterly fund drive – and it's going lousy. I was planning to remind you how time is money… and how much time Antiwar.com saves you each day, collecting, reviewing, organizing, and updating hundreds of news items and opinion pieces...

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Maybe She’s Thinking of Herman Munster

Over the last few years, I've come to understand that the only meaningful difference between the New York Times and the New York Post is that the latter is occasionally good for a chuckle. The two rags take equally insouciant approaches to reality. Witness Patricia...

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National Review Just Keeps Giving

In the final installment of today's National Review trilogy, I present Thomas Sowell in Paul Harvey mode: When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when...

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The Blessings of Destruction

Another classic from Bruce Bartlett, from April 2003: "War in Iraq Is a Bargain: A new study says the conflict is an economic blessing — for us and them." For those unclear on the title reference, click here.

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In Their Hearts, They Know She’s Right

I understand a lack of enthusiasm for the top-tier GOP presidential candidates – really, I do – but isn't it a little early yet for the neocons* to endorse Hillary? Not that they're logically wrong to do so… *UPDATE: A reader writes in to say that Bruce...

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Bureau of Emotion Issues New Diktat

I'll grant that he makes a couple of reasonable nano-points along the way, but Christopher Hitchens' latest essay is mostly a chilling reminder of his inner rot. Quoth Commissar Chris of the bloodbath in Blacksburg: The grisly events at Virginia Tech involved no...

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