Our Language Cops Are
a Bunch of Barney Fifes

Andrew Sullivan: I've touched slightly on the term 'Israel-Firster' - a shorthand that has an ugly neo-Nazi provenance, which is why I don't use it… As Justin Raimondo pointed out Monday, that etymology is false: the term was first used no later than 1953 by Alfred M....

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A Dark Day for Democrats

Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin's uterus, the nation's less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the Lightworker....

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Why Are People Grudgeful?

Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...

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PR Advice to the Palestinians

I've heard a certain criticism countless times over the years, but after seeing it three times in two days on the same site, I decided to do a little research. From that vast repository of respectable opinion, The Atlantic, here are Jeffrey Goldberg, Andrew Sullivan,...

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Minarets: Ban Them, or Bomb Them?

Well, the Swiss – or, more accurately, a majority of voters in democratic Switzerland – have gone and done something wrong and dumb, approving a referendum that bans the construction of minarets. Libertarian demerits are certainly in order. But one very wrong,...

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