On Wednesday, Jim Henley, in a post titled "All Is Forgiven," noted an important admission by Andrew Sullivan: "what marks conservatism is extreme prudence in initiating conflict, a principle I foolishly rushed past in the wake of 9/11." That's certainly all true, and...
House Narrowly Defeats Measure to Defund Vice President’s Office
The House of Representatives just narrowly defeated an amendment to deny funds to operate Vice President Dick Cheney's office. Cheney had insisted that his office is exempt from Executive Department oversight by arguing that he is not part of that department. Rep....
Glenn Greenwald
A Tragic Legacy: Bush Thinks His Evil is Good
The Color of the Sky
Michael Rubin, formerly of the Coalition Provisional Authority, writes a regular feature for National Review Online, a summary with links of the Iran-related news of the day. A hardcore neocon whose journalistic and other credentials have often been in conflict,...
Psst! Whole Foods Run by Fascists. Pass It On
In an effort to get to the bottom of this whole Whole Foods matter, I urge you to contact the company through this form and ask why they're such a bunch of fascists. Be sure to include the fact that you heard they are fascists from Jonah Goldberg, whose forthcoming...
National Review‘s Hilarious Decline: The Hits Keep Coming
Via David Weigel, I see that Jonah Goldberg's hotly anticipated (and anticipated... and anticipated) tome Liberal Fascism has a new working subtitle. Instead of The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton, it's now The Totalitarian Temptation from...
Conservative Crack-Up, Cont.
Johann Hari reports that the latest National Review cruise wasn't all caviar, pasty skin, and Pacific sun. There were also tempests: "It's customary to say we lost the Vietnam war, but who's 'we'?" Dinesh D'Souza asks angrily. "The left won by demanding America's...
Eric Margolis
America and Russia post-Cold War – Now We’re Them
Defeating the Modernity, One Clock at a Time
You'd never know it from reading the pacifist, Islamofascist-appeasing media, but apparently Switzerland is not a free, peaceful, sovereign nation. Who are you gonna believe, Mitt Romney or Big Cheese/Chocolate/Clocks/Cutlery? Jim Henley pauses Mitt's slide show to...
Seymour Hersh
Abu Ghraib Torture Worse Than They Told You


