Justin Logan on Eugene Volokh's paean to public torture:If this guy's a libertarian, I want out.Arthur Silber's take:It strikes me as nothing more than everyday, commonplace sadism.You know, you guys are, like, so judgmental. What's so bad about sadism, anyway? Who...
From today's presidential press conference:QUESTION: Mr. President, earlier this year you told us you had wanted your administration to cease and desist on payments to journalists to promote your agenda. You cited the need for ethical concerns and the need for a...
One-time beat poet-become-Sufi-devotee Stephen Schwartz responds to this blogpost. Kinda. Well, not really. Here he is in the comments section of FrontPageMag, under the (all-caps) heading "LAST EXIT TO SANITYVILLE":Don't go expecting a response from Dennis. On his...
A rare interesting exchange at a White House press briefing. (Via Wonkette.)
One-time beat poet-become-Sufi-devotee Stephen Schwartz responds to my blogpost. Kinda. Well, not really. Here he is in the comments section of FrontPageMag, under the (all-caps) heading "LAST EXIT TO SANITYVILLE":Don't go expecting a response from Dennis. On his...
I don't have the time for a full rebuttal of this "exposé" of Antiwar.com by Stephen Schwartz, but I'll pick out a few of its more deceitful/asinine points: * "If, as Mary McCarthy said, every word written by the Stalinist Lillian Hellman was a lie, including 'and'...
Remember how everybody just knew that the mother and husband of Chicago judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow had been murdered by white supremacists? If you've been following the case in the media over the last week, you likely had no doubt where the guilt lay. White...
I don't buy the theory that the attack on Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena's car was an "assassination attempt" by the U.S. for the same reason I don't buy the Syria-killed-Hariri theories: they make no sense. Killing Hariri would have been a truly suicidal bombing...
I also happened to catch this on the telly. The only thing James Wolcott left out of his otherwise spot-on post is that CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer is an alumnus of the Likudist Jerusalem Post and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The Lebanese now seem determined to oust their occupiers. Nothing surprising about that. The desire to be free of foreign rule should be easily grasped by all. As Old Right icon Robert Taft said of American postwar interventionism,It is based on the theory that we...
