Via Daniel Larison, the latest telling of what must be the biggest whopper of the 21st century: Well, we were not involved in the world before 9/11, and look what happened. That's Karl Rove, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Of course, there's no reason to pick...
The independent National Security Archive has just published recently declassified documents regarding the birth and evolution of the infamous Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) that was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post in early 1992 and that later...
Mother Night We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut   "The Nukes of October": Codenamed Giant Lance, Nixon's plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security...
Jim Lobe notes that former Amb. Marc Ginsberg now appears to have resigned from the FDD board of advisers, and expands on his previous posts about the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's defections: As Donna Brazile blamed the “influence of their funders†on...
Dear All, I can see from some of the comments on my first blog yesterday that blogging and nuance don't mix well. As I said, I liked Buckley somewhat and I would never celebrate his death except to the extent that he, as a Catholic, would want me to. All I was saying...
I notice that many of the obituaries of Buckley make a positive mention of his manners and civility. That was often accurate. But one way to judge someone's real civility is to see how he reacts when he's losing a debate. Yesterday, I rewatched all of the YouTube...
Polls released yesterday and today show that Antiwar congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are well ahead in their reelection campaigns. Both polls were conducted by Public Policy Polling. Ron Paul leads his only GOP opponent, Chris Peden, 63-30%. He has no...
Sheldon Richman on the passing of William F. Buckley Jr.: Looking over his rich biography, I can't help but take away the impression that one of his goals in life was to make the pro-liberty, anti-state movement safe – unthreatening to the establishment. … The...
For an update on the exodus of Democrats from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, see Wednesday’s article by Spencer Ackerman on the new Washington Independent website and a later piece by Isikoff and Hosenball at the Newsweek website. It seems that three...
Various sources are reporting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not make an independent bid for president. I, for one, was hoping to witness another blandly "transpartisan," authoritarian warbot crash and burn à la Rudy Giuliani, but alas. Of course, there's...
