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The Pakistani media is reporting that US “nation building” in Central Asia is stalling because there are only 18 US State Department officers who are proficient in Pashto, the predominant language in Afghanistan and the tribal regions of Pakistan. This is in spite of eight years of emphasis on building a cadre in that language [...]
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This week the TAC website features a retrospective of some of the most penetrating profiles from our archives: R. J. Stove on Evelyn Waugh, Pat Buchanan interviewing Ralph Nader, Tom Woods on the follies of Woodrow Wilson, Bill Kauffman on Gore Vidal, and many more, including several pieces that have never before been available on-line. [...]
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Update: Riehl World View has Levin’s response. It’s fascinating. Every now and then I have to lower myself to deal with the undeveloped minds of kooks like Rod Dreher. I don’t know Dreher and as best I can tell, most nobody does. He has a column for a Dallas newspaper and created his own blog site, from [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
The June Reason has my article on the web-based descendants of Mystery Science Theater 3000—Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax. Fans of the show should try out the new efforts by the MST3K alumni. One thing that is new since I wrote my article is that the Rifftrax gang, led by Mike Nelson, has gone into more [...]
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I had always revered Rolling Thunder — the romantic vision of a Band of Brothers, refugees from a South Asian hellhole whose common experience, really, was the only thing separating them from a certain reckless breed of motorcycle gang. Their annual sojourn to the National Mall for Memorial Day, emblazoned in leather with the simple [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Politics, Uncategorized, War
Rod Dreher took note of the ranting of Mark Levin, who recently told a caller “I don’t know why your husband doesn’t put a gun to his temple. Get the hell out of here.” Dreher opines, “Having spent about 15 unpleasant minutes listening to this creep, I cannot imagine why anybody pays attention to him.” [...]
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On Friday May 22 in his diary column in the Guardian Hugh Muir wrote. • The world stands transfixed as the trouser-gate virus continues to afflict the mother of parliaments. Expense abuse scandal hurts UK parties, says Germany’s Die Welt publication. Gravy train crashes for UK lawmakers, reports the Associated Press. But there’s less interest [...]
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The RNC reaches a new low:
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The Israeli and Arab media are chewing over what are reported to be key points from Barack Obama’s speech that will be given in Cairo next month. No matter that the speech almost certainly has not been written yet, but it just might be true that Obama has already made some major decisions on a [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to “a mushroom cloud over an American city,” The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb. “This is a dictator who is [...]