Reuters reports: "Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory."A senior U.S. administration official told reporters in Washington Bin Laden, his...
I've been busy over at Taki's Top Drawer, blogging up a storm on libertarianism, orthodox and otherwise; the politics of promiscuity, or -- who's the Paris Hilton of the Beltway pundits?; why mockery is the best weapon against the McCainiac; and the economics of doom....
An important clarification of my piece on "The Imperial Class" posted this morning: the rank-and-file military are not automatically inducted into the ranks of the imperial class, and, indeed, their interests are diametrically opposed to the agenda of the War Party...
As I noted in my last post, the withdrawal of both Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson would spur neo-conservatives and their closest aggressive nationalist friends, like John Bolton, to rally behind John McCain as their preferred candidate. Of course, now that Romney...
Let's see: Last night, I read this -- an announcement that Ron Paul has, for all intents and purposes, dropped out of the GOP presidential race -- and today, I read this -- a report from Washington state that, with 78 percent of the vote in, Ron is polling 21 percent...
Ron Paul has announced that he is scaling down his campaign and, has absolutely ruled out a third-party Presidential run. He plans to focus on his reelection to Congress. He faces a March 4 primary challenge in his home district. For the first time, Paul left no...
Mike Moore will be discussing his important new book, Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance, at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA, on Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 PM. Here are the details. Moore's book is an indispensable contribution to an issue often...
Appropos my recent column on John McCain’s foreign policy views, and especially this piece in the current issue of The American Conservative, check out this Bizarro McCain:
The Washington Post created an illustrated timeline of neoconservatism to go with a review of Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of The Neocons. Click here for the whole graphic. As always, observations and gripes are welcome in comments.
It will be interesting to see what Rupert Murdoch does to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, particularly if long-standing rumors that he intends to distance itself at least a little from its thinly veiled Likudist line. This week's op-ed by Shalem Center...
