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For a very limited time, our current issue (Aug. 25) and all of our archives are available in PDF form, free for all. This is just a taste to whet your appetite — soon the PDF content will be only for subscribers. But don’t worry, we’ll make the non-subscribers among you an offer that you [...]
Filed under: Announcements
Remember George Monbiot’s attempt to carry out a citizen’s arrest on John Bolton at a literary festival in rural England? Sadly we never found any footage of the stunt, but here is Bolton’s extraordinary reply to Monbiot in the new British magazine, Standpoint. The former ambassador to the UN is on typically cantankerous form, dishing [...]
Filed under: media
Certainly all the attempts by the media to conjure the Spirit of ’68 when speculating about the demonstrations outside the Republican and Democratic conventions at the end of the month are in vain. In fact, sadly misplaced. While there is definitely a very active contingent of activists out there that would like to put such [...]
Al-Qa’eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life. They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar. Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: ‘… They regarded the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, World
Putin, almost everyone agrees, has pulled off a brutal strategic masterstroke in the Caucasus, calling the West’s bluff and humiliating Georgia’s unlovable president Mikheil Saakashvili. Meanwhile, though, Russia’s performance in the Olympics has been surprisingly poor. The Russians currently languish in eighth position in the medal rankings, with only three golds. It’s not important of [...]
Filed under: World
Readers may notice some changes to the TAC website over the next two days. We’re making some design tweaks and adding new features. There may be a few hiccups during the transition, but be patient — you’ll like what’s coming.
Filed under: Announcements
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released the first comprehensive, government study on private contractors in Iraq to date. Its results ratify a longstanding critique that the administration has been able to wage this war without a military draft only by enlisting a Shadow Army, which according to the CBO, will have cost the American taxpayer [...]
I’ve been receiving a number of really nasty anonymous e-mails regarding my blog piece last week that suggested the possibility that the Office of Special Plans rather than CIA actually forged the December 2003 letter that linked Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda. The e-mails appeared to come from a common source as they all praised Doug Feith [...]
Via Richard Spencer, the Southern Avenger interviews Bill Kauffman on the critical necessity of electing John McCain and the need to bring Georgia into NATO; or something like that.
Filed under: Conservatism
Bill Kristol’s op ed “Will Russia Get Away With It?” in today’s The New York Times is a beauty even by his admittedly low standards. Our corrupt thugs in Tbilisi are apparently being bullied by an ”autocratic aggressor” from Moscow and we can’t let the bad guys get away with it, particularly as the brave Georgians have been bribed [...]