Who Are You to Judge?

Justin Logan on Eugene Volokh’s paean to public torture:If this guy’s a libertarian, I want out.Arthur Silber’s take:It strikes me as nothing more than everyday, commonplace sadism.You know, you guys are, like, so judgmental. What’s so bad...

Hope I Don’t Confuse Him With All These Hyperlinks

I don’t have the time for a full rebuttal of this “exposé” of Antiwar.com by Stephen Schwartz, but I’ll pick out a few of its more deceitful/asinine points: * “If, as Mary McCarthy said, every word written by the Stalinist Lillian Hellman...

Putting Israel First

My friend Arthur Silber points me toward the ravings of one Kay Arthur, a popular “Christian Zionist” author and minister, at the convention of the National Religious Broadcasters: “Perhaps the most startling moment of the morning was an appearance...

A New Cold War with China?

The China Post perceives a new cold war with the United States: “A new Cold War is taking shape after last week’s U.S.-Japan joint statement that China is their biggest security threat and that Taiwan is key to keep Beijing’s growing military might...

Lock the Doors, Honey! Hezbollah’s Comin’!

I also happened to catch this on the telly. The only thing James Wolcott left out of his otherwise spot-on post is that CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer is an alumnus of the Likudist Jerusalem Post and the American Israel Public Affairs...