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Last week, the presence of Andrew Roberts at a valedictory dinner for President Bush in London prompted rumors that Roberts–every neocon’s favorite British historian–was being lined up as a ghostwriter for Bush’s autobiography. We have discussed this possibility in the latest issue of TAC. It was obvious, though, that Roberts’ sycophancy wouldn’t wait until the [...]
When US forces invaded Iraq in 2003, the American people were told (however disingenuously) that a primary goal was to liberate the Iraqis and help rebuild their country from decades of neglect – as well as from the initial bombing campaign, which leveled whatever crumbling infrastructure existed there in the first place. In fact, the [...]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is saying that Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty means that other states–Croatia and Turkey foremost among them–cannot join the European Union. “No Lisbon Treaty, no enlargement,” he declares. Slovenia, currently the EU’s presiding nation, disagrees. Why should the pesky Irish get in the way of others? They ask. Nobody in [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, World
“[T]here is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal.” –Press conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, 6/16/08
Filed under: Uncategorized
The Republican Party may be headed full-steam for loserville this November, but that hasn’t stopped it from again leveraging the Democrats’ infamous insecurities over the War on Terror to pull off what is now being considered another capitulation by the majority party in congress. Senate leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood at [...]
Libertarian Bob Barr could be putting Georgia in presidential play for the first time in decades, as a brand new Georgia state poll has him grabbing upwards of 6 percent in the November contest against Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, who get 44 percent and 43 percent respectively — just one percent apart moving [...]
In attempting to expose Barack Obama’s “confusion and indecision” over bringing terrorists to justice, John McCain gets all bloodthirsty, Let me be clear, under my administration Osama bin Laden will either be killed on the battlefield or executed. Quite a promise. Does he really think bin Laden can be found on a battlefield?
Filed under: Election
As long as government is involved in controlling markets to some extent–regulating, taxing, exempting from taxes, subsidizing–corruption will run rampant. Amid the unfolding controversy over the VIP loans Countrywide Financial extended to powerful lawmakers, people have been missing the real point: Bank of America, who is buying Countrywide and all its crummy loans, stands to [...]
Filed under: Economics, libertarianism
Jonah Goldberg wasn’t very happy with Bruce Bartlett’s recent New Republic piece surveying the Obamacons. The Liberal Fascism author complained that Bartlett included libertarians like David Friedman among the ranks of conservatives for Obama, and anyway Bartlett supposedly didn’t give good reasons for why these dissident conservatives like the Illinois senator. Actually, he did. Bartlett [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, War
I have been reliably informed that the CIA added two new stars to the wall of its entranceway about three weeks ago, signifying that two more clandestine service officers have been killed in action. Both died while searching for Osama bin Laden along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The ceremony adding the stars was [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War