A Friendly Wager

Justin Logan writes:[P]rofessor Pundit compares and contrasts how friggin' awesome things are in Iraq now with how scary and Hobbesian...er...France has become. Reynolds wonders: "Will France improve as much in the coming year as Iraq has in the past year? Doubtful."...

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

Matt Welch notes a most interesting trend for the Bush years:Number of documents classified by the Executive Branch, annually: 2001: 8.7 million 2002: 11.3 million 2003: 14.2 million 2004: 15.7 million Number of documents declassified by the Executive Branch,...

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Shameless/Speechless

Israel's the former, I'm the latter. From Ha'aretz:After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country's history. Israel...

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A Peek Inside the Mind of a Lunatic

Stephen Schwartz sends a very telling assessment of "who's taken seriously":BTW, when I knocked Hunter Thompson I got 65 nasty emails. When I blasted Cat Stevens I got 50 nasty emails. When I got into this ridiculous exchange with you goofs over links etc. I got seven...

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Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch Week 119

With apologies to Slate, I now inaugurate Antiwar.com's Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch. As you probably already know, Schwartz threatened to sue us last week for hyperlinking to a photograph of him on The Atlantic Web site. After being laughed out of town for that by...

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Fact-Free Frontpagemag

In today's centersmear at Frontpagemag, a Steven Plaut writes:In a New York Times editorial, [Juan] Cole said that he saw the elections in Syria as a model for other Arab countries to follow: “The last thing the Arab people need is a red herring like ‘free and open...

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Uh, Stephen, if You Insist…

... on bombarding someone with spam, why not try Matt Welch, who issued this haymaker about you and your ilk a few weeks back:God, if there's something I'm tired of, it's former Trotskyites, or Castro-huggers, or Weathermen-sympathizers, lecturing me or anyone else...

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This Is Your War Party

Poor Stephen Schwartz. No one takes him seriously, and he knows it. This is not a total negative for Schwartz, to be sure. If the squares out there in Fox News/Weekly Standard/National Review-land took Schwartz seriously as a Trotskyite, labor leader, Muslim mystic,...

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Here’s to Neocon Fratricide

Over at Frontpagemag, where rejected submissions to National Review and the Weekly Standard go to die of embarrassment, Stephen Schwartz is on the attack again. Today, the daft little porcupine has his quills aimed at one Julia Gorin (no favorite of yours truly) for...

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So Sue Me

Dear Professor Reynolds, I find it passing strange that a law professor with an interest in all things Internet (and presumably, free speech) would ignore Stephen Schwartz's legal bullying of Antiwar.com about hyperlinking. Yes, yes, it's fascinating that Justin...

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