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Henry Regnery opened his Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher: “Every book requires justification.” So did his business. “The firm I founded was born in opposition,” Regnery wrote. “[I]t was this fact that gave it whatever distinction it attained and provides the justification.” In 1947, Regnery Publishing fit into a small office above a drugstore in [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
As Peter Lorre once said to Vincent Price in one of their famous Roger Corman collaborations, “Is there no end to your horrors?” I’d ask that of the executives of Kellogg Brown & Root, but hey, that’s supposed to be the US government’s job. But apparently there is nothing this former Halliburton subsidiary can do [...]
Filed under: War
LewRockwell.com reports some very good news (via M.J. Rosenberg at TPM): Georgetown University had decided to dump Doug Feith. Good to see that at least with respect to Just War doctrine, Georgetown is taking Church teachings seriously. Or so I like to imagine. Rosenberg writes: Word from campus is that both students and faculty had [...]
Filed under: Culture, Foreign policy
Michael Brendan Dougherty doesn’t get Andrew Sullivan’s take on the Pope, torture, and Bush – the former king of the war-bloggers seems to be implying that Benedict XVI is a modernday Borgia — but what I want to know is why anyone continues to take Senor Sullivan seriously. As he waffles on about the sheer awfulness of [...]
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Not only did he get 16% of the GOP vote in Pennsylvania — his best showing yet in a primary — but Ron Paul has also been quietly picking up delegates to the Republican National Convention, although Republican officialdom has tried to make matters as difficult as possible for Paul delegates at county and state [...]
Barack Obama has been justifiably criticized for being vague on foreign policy. But at least he isn’t offending anyone. By contrast, Hillary Clinton, in her determination to grab the Democratic nomination, has hurled principles of international diplomacy out the window. Most obviously, she sent nervous ripples around the world by threatening to “totally obliterate” Iran [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy
Andrew Sullivan writes: It was striking to me that the Pope refused to address the president’s authorization of inhumane treatment and torture of prisoners. This was not an accidental omission. In return, the president refused to engage the Pope on his own complicity in the systematic cover-up of child rape and teen abuse by his [...]
If the neocons ever leave us what will we do when we need a good laugh? A recent foray into the world of fantasy and invention, all presented with what one presumes to be a straight face, is the redoubtable neocon warrior couple Fred and Kimberly Kagan’s piece in The Weekly Standard “The Patton of [...]
Filed under: War
Walker Percy’s writing from twenty and thirty often seems as current (or more so) as when written. The quote below came from “The State of te Novel: Dying Art or New Science?”, published in The Michigan Quarterly Review in 1977; but the basic theme pervades his novels and essays: Something, it appears, has gone wrong [...]
Filed under: Culture
Various bloggers are atwitter over a column on supposed global cooling from Phil Chapman, a former Australian astronaut. Mr. Chapman has scientific credentials out the wazoo, but his column falls short on basic accuracy. He writes, for example, that the “four agencies that track Earth’s temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA [...]
Filed under: Conservatism