To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of our last Yankee president The Wall Street Journal published an article by Christopher Hitchens, “Where's the Aura?”. Hitchens is glad that the Kennedy cult is dying, and, having grown up in Massachusetts, I...
Great featured essay today by Chris Leithner on non-interventionism. Of the Founders, he writes, Far from being backward, xenophobic and the like, many possessed a keen interest in foreign languages, history, culture, technical and economic developments. Indeed,...
Over at NRO, Laurie Mylroie blows the Istanbul bombing case wide shut: It's proof of an al Qaeda-Saddam connection! Meanwhile, the Turks, probably in an act of obeisance to their al Qaeda masters, say the terrorists were Kurds, with connections to U.S.-supported...
The Christian Science Monitor posts one item that is only for the Web: their Daily Update. Each day they pick a subject and do a review of the Web for that subject, like a single blog entry. Today they report on the FBI spying on the Antiwar Movement. Right in the...
The American Spectator dislikes little old me. True, when I stopped subscribing several years ago, I cut their readership by a quarter, but they should thank me now. Without the links I've been sending them, their online audience would consist of two guys grousing...
The latest issue of Newsweek warns that al-Qaeda is building toward a "spectacular" attack. Intelligence sources tell Newsweek that "the neocons in the Pentagon have been undermining that relationship by accusing (without much proof) the Syrians of encouraging...
A long time ago, pants were mended, not replaced. Books were borrowed, not bought. And people realized that cash was king and crap was crap. Try talking to your grandparents; get a sense of their Depression-era expectations. … Our expectations have become so inflated,...
FOB (friend of blog) Gary Oppewall, replying to my Fukuyama quote, writes: "The pirates are still among us. They may not wave skull and crossbones flags and have parrots on their shoulders, but the deeds are the same. The only difference is that they have the support...
Host or attend a house party to screen the new documentary Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. (Watch the trailer here.) The plan is to arrange a nationwide screening on Dec. 7, and participating looks quite easy. Here's a plug for the party I found in my...
FDR foresaw the fall of Conrad Black. Please e-mail Justin's article for today to every neo you know. A choice bit: What's funny is that Lord Black, author of the recently published Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom, recently took libertarian Jim Powell...
