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.
I certainly wouldn’t call him the worst candidate, but does anyone else in American politics today so perfectly embody the welfare-warfare ethos as Mike Huckabee? I mean, sure, some of the other candidates want to be the Führer, but Huckabee seems as if he’s really running for secretary of health and human services in the Fourth Reich.
“National security isn’t going to mean much if we have a generation of kids so physically incapacitated [by obesity] they can’t go to war.â€
Never mind that he unthinkingly equates “national security” with going to war; I’m more concerned that he’s committing a grave political blunder. Huck should forget the Atkins Diet vs. al-Qaeda angle and offer all those young James Tarantos out there what they really want: perpetual war for perpetual pizza.
Don’t believe the spin about Giuliani writing Iowa off. Nick Bradley looks at campaign appearances vs. votes and finds that Giuliani came in a dismal sixth place, with only 4,000 votes for his 35 appearances. Antiwar and pro-civil liberties candidate Ron Paul, on the other hand, mustered almost three times as many votes with only 75% of Giuliani’s campaign events, putting him second only to Huckabee in votes per event.
Will Fox News now reconsider its ridiculous exclusion of Rep. Paul from Sunday night’s forum?
(For title reference, see this, this, and this.)
UPDATE: Oh, and as for the title, as Michael Brendan Dougherty puts it, “If the bandolier fits…“
On Dec. 14, Ali Shafeya al-Moussawi, a correspondent for Alive in Baghdad, was killed. He had been working on a series of stories about a militia in Baghdad.
See Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists for more.
So Sudan’s president pardoned the teacher convicted of doing, well, nothing. She spent about a week in jail. Meanwhile…
