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My mood is somewhat euphoric as my beloved NY Giants, after three lethargic quarters, came from behind to beat the dog-ass Pittsburgh Steelers! But I hope the TAC readership is also noting reports that helicopter borne US special forces have attacked a village inside Syria, killing eight and wounding fourteen more before departing. As Syria [...]
Filed under: War
Ta-Nehisi Coates posts video of Paul Wellstone’s last speech on the floor of the Senate on the occasion of the six-year anniversary of the former senator’s death. Wellstone was famous for being, by conventional metrics, among the most liberal members of the US Senate. In his final speech, Wellstone made a case against the invasion [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, War
Having recently completed a short Obama endorsement (in TAC’s forthcoming issue, one voice among many) which argues that the best reason to vote for Obama is that McCain will start a war with Iran, I find this Jim Lobe post more than troubling. Apparently, soft neocons like Dennis Ross are well entrenched in the Obama [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
McCain campaign ads are getting stranger and stranger. Take this one, for example: What has happened to Biden’s voice? Has someone girded his loins? Why does he sound like one of those anonymous movie baddies with a creepy telephonic-muffling device? It seems to imply that the democratic VP nominee is actually the terrorist threat. Say [...]
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
Writing in the Huffington Post to clarify rumors that his family would be supporting Obama in the 2008 election, Barry Goldwater, Jr. explains that that just ain’t so: Barry Goldwater was one of the icons of the Republican Party and, yes, would be unhappy with many of the recent failures from within. I speak about this [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
Peggy Noonan’s piece this morning about the prospects for an Election Night Return of the Living Dead is important in that it breathes life into the last remaining spell the Republicans have to cast in hopes of eeking out a victory on Nov 4. The key: the charge of “triumphalism” on the part of Democrats. [...]
Filed under: Election
Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media. Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them. Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin. Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that [...]
There’s been a debate among the Postmodern Conservatives (and also our own Daniel Larison) over the nature of a philosophical life and whether Red Staters or Blue Staters, roughly speaking, are best equipped to live it. The whole thing is very much in medias and I could just be confused about what the arguments are [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
Infamous (or famous depending on your point of view) Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was told by the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) that she was basically on her own until election day as the cash stapped organization pulled their ads supporting her to spend money in on other more pressing races. Her “anti-American” comments on [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Many of you may have read the Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post, “Stopping a Nuclear Iran,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203005.html. It is by two former Senators, Daniel Coats and Chuck Robb, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, and describes a “bipartisan” approach to Iran that should be adopted as the policy of whomever becomes the next president. [...]
Filed under: War