In last night's debate, McCain again strutted out the fact of his POW status during the Vietnam war. A servile media has long allowed this to be the primary part of McCain's halo. But instead, it should raise questions that go to the heart of McCain's willingness to...
I attended a debate between Harvard Prof. Steven Walt and veteran neo-conservative and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Joshua Muravchik at the Nixon Center Thursday evening. Most notable for the unfortunately abbreviated time I was there was Muravchik’s...
Congressional Democrats this week shelved the sinister House Concurrent Resolution 362. That resolution, a high priority for AIPAC, would have imposed "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing...
The Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin revealed her lack of understanding of the world. This would be funny if she wasn't so close to actually becoming Commander-in-Chief:
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States - governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from marauding bands of politicians. (from my Freedom in Chains, 1999) If you voted in the congressional elections two years ago, were...
McCain’s surrogates, Max Boot and Richard Williamson, told a gathering of the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in Virginia last weekend that the Republican candidate, if elected, would not become actively engaged in Israeli-Palestinian peace...
Not terribly surprising, but I have it from a reliable source that Elliott Abrams, currently Deputy National Security Adviser for Global Democracy Strategy who also heads the NSC’s Near East office, is regularly briefing the McCain campaign — Randy Scheunemann...
The Independent has a really fascinating talk with Tina Kandelaki, a well known television personality in Russia who is originally from Georgia, and several other Georgians living in Moscow. As President Saakashvili called Georgians who live in Russia "traitors," its...
In order to save the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Bush administration seeks boundless power that cannot be reviewed by federal courts. Didn't we try this already at Gitmo, and it didn't work out so well? from Bloomberg: Treasury Seeks Asset-Buying Power Unchecked...
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