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Today, I attended an absorbing yet rather downbeat Nixon Center discussion on “the future of the Republican party and its foreign policy.” Almost all the panelists and attendees agreed, with varying degrees of gloominess, that the chances of the GOP reformulating a coherent foreign policy looked bleak. There was lots of first-class brainpower in the [...]
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The Guardian is reporting that “The Obama administration has moved to grant political asylum to foreign women who suffer severe physical or sexual abuse from which they are unable to escape because it is part of the culture of their own countries.” Traditionally, political asylum was just that, providing a refuge for individuals being persecuted [...]
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Recession? What Recession? Working in DC, it seems as if there isn’t one. A DC tourism association reports this week that overall visitors to the nation’s capital were up 3% from 2007 to 16.2 million, and international visitors were up a dramatic 22% to 1.4 million in 2008. The Washington metro area’s unemployment of 6.2 [...]
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Interesting post on the Daily Kos, “What If the Right Becomes the Antiwar Party,” inspired in part by Chase Madar’s TAC essay on the “humanitarian” hawkery of Samatha Power. (I don’t think Madar considers himself a conservative, by the way, he just wrote an outstanding criticism of Power.) At the outset of the Iraq War, [...]
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“The sound alone was worth the $24 billion!” So said fellow Nixon speechwriter Ray Price as the mighty Saturn V rocket lifted Apollo 11 and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins off the launch pad, three miles away, on the start of their voyage to the moon. It was a splendid moment in that first year of [...]
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There are several good posts and articles recently written that provide a peek inside the conservative establishment and how it operates, whether its fundraising, or talk radio, and who it consists of and what they are thinking . Many do not like the establishment and posture themselves against it but establishments, like the poor, you [...]
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Advocates of universal recognition of state concealed weapon permits failed to get a supermajority in the Senate yesterday. But what’s more interesting is that some opponents of the measure suddenly became advocates of localism and states’ rights. As Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who carried a concealed weapon back in the 1970s, but yesterday led the [...]
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Hillary Clinton sounds almost hurt that Iran has so far shunned America’s diplomatic advances. “We haven’t had any response … We’ve certainly reached out,” she says. Poor thing. Maybe, however, we should not be entirely surprised that Iranians are stubborn about “reaching out” to the Secretary of State. Just over a year ago, she was [...]
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… Sa’ad Bin Laden, that is, Osama’s son. Intelligence Officials are reported to be “80 to 85 percent” certain that this mini-Bin was obliterated in a drone-attack earlier this year. A triumph for USA, then: justification for the seemingly crazy policy of pulverizing mud huts in the wilds of Waziristan with Hellfire missiles, launched from [...]
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I want to thank some of the writers of Takimag.com for linking to discussing my TAC article “Carter Conservatism” including Richard Spencer, Kevin DeAnna and Dylan Hayes during last week’s 30 anniversary of the “Crisis in Confidence Speech.” In Search of… was a popular 1970′s program hosted by Leonard Nimoy and I refer to it [...]
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