From Atrios, courtesy of David Sneek, David Brooks's response to critics of his most recent garbage: For what its worth, that neo being short for Jewish was meant as a joke. Nothing more. Most of the people who get labeled as Neocons are Jewish, so I was just sort of...
R.J. Stove nominates Tim Blair for most obnoxious. Despite the general irrelevance of his posts, he seems mildly witty. I was actually chuckling a bit as I scrolled down the page--until I hit this post on David Brooks' latest ruminations: Brooks has nailed it... David...
The fascinating economist Joseph Schumpeter, whose concept of "creative destruction" has been so abused by Michael Ledeen and various liberventionists, opposed the Second World War. Found this nugget from a Schumpeter biography via LRC blog: Before the war's outbreak...
Great roundup of base-closure stories by Jeremy Sapienza. Which makes me wonder: once (if) these bases close, will the folks who get kicked off the dole remain as intensely militaristic as they are now? Will love last after the pork is gone?
Before anyone calls for my scalp, here's a link to a non-loony Randian whose work you might enjoy: Arthur Silber, who writes: I think that a deep understanding of Rand's ideas, and especially of the unique methodology which she brought to her explicitly philosophic...
But some Randians are pretty creepy. Jim Capo sends in his nomination for most obnoxious "libertarian" hawk: Leonard Peikoff and crew at the Ayn Rand Institute. Not that they're being untrue to Rand's vision or anything. Check out her own thoughts on collateral...
The "neocon is a codeword for Jew" lie, that is. Some great refutations over the last week of this dirty ploy: *Justin Raimondo (and also see this) *Gene Healy *Steven Greenhut *Calpundit *Josh Marshall Feel free to send me any notable links you've seen on this topic,...
Brendan O'Neill sends along this essay, in which he argues against the tendency of antiwar folks to blame the war on gullible masses taken in by potent propaganda. I've probably been guilty of this at times, and I agree with much of what he says, especially this: Of...
Didn't mean to leave out my conservative and liberal/leftist/progressive readers with this post on "libertarian" hawks. Feel free to send me your thoughts on the most obnoxious and the most reasonable hawks of your political stripe. My nominees: Obnoxious conservative...
Eric's entry on Tim Starr got me to thinking: Who is the most obnoxious "libertarian" hawk? The most reasonable? On the latter question I'm taking a cue from Alan Bock's thoughtful comments of last Tuesday and attempting a little holiday civility. I guess I'll...
