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Old time TAC alum Jim Antle says just about all that needs to be said about Ted Kennedy here. Jim may be overgenerous to say that Kennedy represented liberalism at its best as well as its worst, but certainly Republicans and Democrats alike found him useful as the archetypal liberal. Now that he’s gone, the [...]
Filed under: Politics
The war in Afghanistan appears to have settled into the category Delbrueck called “wars of exhaustion.” If it remains there, the U.S. cannot win. The American people will become exhausted long before the Pashtun do. In this respect America’s situation is similar to that Germany faced in World War I. Germany knew she could not [...]
The first, partial results of Aghanistan’s elections have been announced today. The early leader is President Hamid Karzai – no surprise there. What is remarkable, however, is that his advantage is very slight. The Guardian reports, Afghanistan’s independent election commission (IEC) said Karzai had won 41% of the 10% of ballots processed so far, while [...]
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At the front of the books section in the latest TAC, we have an excellent review-essay by Rod Liddle about immigration in the EU and Christopher Caldwell’s highly rated new work, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. It can be read for free here. But, if you want to enjoy TAC’s first-rate books section in [...]
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“We just can’t afford it!” Not long ago, every America child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised. “We just can’t afford it!” It may have been a new car, or two weeks at the beach, or the new flat-panel TV screen. Every family knew [...]
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There is a lot to chew on in the long-awaited (but heavily redacted) 2004 CIA Report on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) used in the CIA’s counterterrorism intelligence and detention activities. The ACLU sued to get this report released. The gumshoes at The Washington Independent are doing a much better job distilling this thing, but a [...]
Filed under: Election, Uncategorized
I see that the Sniper’s Tower, specifically Richard Spencer, has taken aim at my Barney Frank post. He hits his target a couple of times: I do subscribe to Mother Jones , and I haven’t contributed to discussions about health care. The meat of Spencer’s problem with my brief post lay in the final two [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Jumpin’ Joe Lieberman continues to wave the war banner, yanking out the old Nazi stand-ins one more time on CNN’s State of the Union yesterday to push for continued intervention — and what sure sounds like more U.S combat troops — in Afghanistan: LIEBERMAN: …This is as if we were in the end of the [...]
Filed under: War
The new issue of The American Conservative features an exclusive excerpt from Ron Paul’s forthcoming book End the Fed. You can read it on-line right now in PDF form by subscribing to TAC. Also in the new issue: Michael Brendan Dougherty profiles Peter Schiff, the economic mastermind who predicted the crash and is now contemplating [...]
In the latest issue of TAC, which went to press yesterday, I’ve written a report about the possible legalization of online gambling in the U.S. Unfortunately, I missed this delightful little nugget, picked up by the Global Dashboard. It’s the extraordinary response of Casino Gambling Web — “the top online casino gambling news reporting association” [...]
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