On the Other Hand
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
CNBC has a source who says it is Palin.
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I Don’t Think It Will Be Palin…
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
… but Will Ruger of Texas State University makes the case for why the Alaska governor ought to be John McCain’s veep pick: Palin could do something few Republicans seem interested in or able to do these days: Help fuse the two pillars of the Reagan Revolution, traditional conservatives and libertarian Republicans. Palin can win [...]
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Barry the Greek
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Rod Dreher argues that Barack Obama’s plan to use Greek columns as a back drop plays into the “messianic” meme, but I honestly can’t understand why. Greek columns are more theatrical than messianic, and as one of Dreher’s commenters notes, President Bush used them in 2004. I’m not paying close enough attention to know if [...]
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Freedom of the Press … When It Suits!
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
While the rest of the pack chases the next Obama-Clinton kerfuffle, ABC News has at least put a team on the streets of Denver to chase down real news — like how wealthy special interests and corporate fat cats are laying down big loot to ensure primo placement at the federal trough and regulatory racket [...]
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What We Will Leave Behind, Part II
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
The Pentagon may have given the Sunni “Sons of Iraq” the dough and weapons to fight al Qaeda for the American cause, but according to Wired Magazine, these now-targeted fighters were left with a far more deadlier token for their troubles. Warhawks have embraced — very matter-of-factly– the efficiency and technological wizbangery behind the hand-held [...]
We are all South Ossetians!
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
I just had to say it, after reading the story about the ramshackle province (country?) in the Times today, whose inhabitants wouldn’t fill Beijing’s Olympic Stadium. Of course there are sound realist reasons for not backing Georgia in this little Caucasus ethnic/boundary spat: our relationship with Russia is important on many fronts, especially those concerning [...]
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Awakening To Realities In Iraq
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
Just when Americans were getting to know the Sons of Iraq, otherwise known as the “Sunni Awakening” — if only at the base level of whether they began B.S or A.S.S (Before Surge or After the Senator’s Surge) — they seem to be breaking up. More succinctly, they are being targeted for termination. Reports over [...]
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And the Uncle Tim Goes To…
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Dennis Dale
I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused –Elvis Costello, The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes In Slate’s unfortunately named “Big Idea” column, Jacob Weisberg, waving about the latest NY Times/CBS poll (PDF) like Joe McCarthy brandishing his list of names, campaigns for title of this season’s most conspicuously contrite [...]
The NYT’s don’t-read-this-book review
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Leon Hadar
When a leading book review like The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) decides to display a review of a certain book on its cover, it usually means that the editors believe that that is a notable book that ought to be read by, or at least draw the attention of the intellectual elites as [...]
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A Guy Named Joe
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Philip Giraldi
Bill Kristol’s “A Joe of His Own?” in today’s Times is priceless, particularly as it comes on the heels of an interview with Representative Peter King of New York on Fox News last Friday. King and Kristol both believe that the best possible Republican Vice Presidential candidate would be lifelong Democrat Joe Lieberman. As King put [...]
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