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Two weeks ago the Libertarian nominee pulled out of a press conference Ron Paul had called with the four leading third-party candidates (Barr, Baldwin, Nader, McKinney) to highlight their common ground. Barr decided to hold a press conference of his own down the hall. He also sent Paul a snide note — transmitted to Barr’s [...]
Filed under: Politics
It’s remarkable how shameless our political leaders are regarding their state of hysteria (of course it wouldn’t be hysteria if it wasn’t without shame and decorum) and not a little disconcerting, suggesting (but by no means proving) that their collective panic is warranted. Last Thursday’s convocation of politicians eager to impress upon the public how terrified they were (and by inference how oblivious they, tasked with [...]
“Our nominee doesn’t run with the Washington herd” — Sarah Palin, GOP convention speech, 2008. Unless in that herd are refugees, loan-outs and moonlighters from the current Bush Administration and its two presidential campaigns, then yes, John McCain does ride with the herd Sarah, hoping of course, to ride it all the way to the [...]
Nashvillian, Glen Dean says that Music City is out of gas: I have never seen anything like it. I traveled from the east side of Nashville to the west side this evening, and if I had stopped at the one or two stations that still had gas, it would have taken hours to get some, [...]
Filed under: Economics
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway flags a fascinating study in her Wall Street Journal op-ed today: The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it [...]
Filed under: Religion
How many times are we going to read this Bush as Truman analogy? The President has himself repeatedly made the comparison, so has Andrew Roberts–of course–as well as countless other neocon scribes. Today was Krauthammer’s turn,
Filed under: Conservatism, media
Bush’s gifts keep on giving. Let’s just call them — in Bush’s own words — the turd blossoms of our times. I choose this reference to the president’s crude nickname for his former guru Karl Rove, because of the crudeness of the exchange between John McCain and a Spanish-speaking radio network and the subsequent exchange [...]
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, Politics
Glenn Reynolds can’t find any good reasons for the greater media coverage of Hurricane Katrina than of Hurricane Ike: Why do hurricanes that hit Texas get so much less attention than hurricanes that hit New Orleans? UPDATE: Another reader emails: ‘If you want to discuss lack of coverage, wasn’t the hurricane that hit New Orleans [...]
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All around the world, man yearns to be free… from democracy. As this excellent Boston Globe article by Joshua Kurlantzick shows, there is a “the gathering global revolt against democracy”. And who is leading this international turnabout? It’s the middle class, the very social element that is meant to hasten the ultimate triumph of western-style [...]
Filed under: World
Tony Blair will appear on the Daily Show tonight. It should be interesting to see how Jon Stewart, who has often lambasted Blair over the Iraq war, treats his guest. I fear that the interview will to be disappointingly soft, as Stewart tends to go easy on left-liberal establishment pols. Besides, nobody slithers away from [...]
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