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I recently attended a Washington event where a New York Times columnist proposed that the Old Gray Lady gives the Right a fairer shake than the right-leaning WSJ gives Lefties. He is certainly correct, at least when it comes to the Neoconservatives. Witness today’s op-ed page top headlines: First we have a mishmash of quantitative [...]
Something about this web banner is oddly familiar. The President won’t be landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier tonight, but the White House is certainly doing all it can to make it appear that Iraq is really done and dusted. Meanwhile, John Bolton offers to take over the throne and lead the charge [...]
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Ahead of Obama’s Iraq speech, Kelley Vlahos looks at what one of the country’s leading clerics has been up to while out of the media glare: Muqtada al Sadr, once dismissed by Washington neoconservatives as a desperate, washed-up five-cent firebrand, is now an Iranian-supported kingmaker who will not only help determine the next government and [...]
Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq. I’m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003. I [...]
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“There are only two men in America who can fill Yankee Stadium on three weeks’ notice,” a friend instructed me years ago. “Billy Graham and Louis Farrakhan.” Indeed, a decade ago, Black Muslim Minister Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” brought a throng of hundreds of thousands to the Capitol. But, last Saturday, Glenn Beck packed the [...]
Complaints that the CIA has on its payroll numerous Afghan officials are misplaced. Questioning the war itself and the multi billion dollar sinkhole that it has become is one thing, but once you have a president who has committed the nation to wallowing in that quagmire forever, you have to do what you can to mitigate the [...]
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In 21st century America, institutional racism and sexism remain great twin evils to be eradicated on our long journey to the wonderful world where, at last, all are equal. What are we to make, then, of a profession that rewards workers with fame and fortune, yet discriminates ruthlessly against women; an institution where Hispanics and [...]
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Mitch is still all the rage. Nope, not the Senate Minority Leader. Bush’s budget director and now the Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels carries has the same sheen as he did last summer, when he made the rounds at DC think tanks and was featured as a “Mitch the Blade” action figure on the cover [...]
Former New Republic editor Peter Beinart does some good work, but I remember feeling pangs of cognitive dissonance earlier this year when I started hearing about The Icarus Syndrome, his book on foreign-policy hubris. I thought I must have Beinart confused with the guy who wrote The Good Fight, a manifesto for liberal hawks, four [...]
TAC‘s Eunomia blogger Daniel Larison returns today in fine form, with a response to Ross Douthat’s take on the Cordoba Initiative. This line sums up what Newt Gingrich and the more brazen mosque-baiters really want: “It isn’t enough if Muslims peacefully practice their religion, reject violence and embrace their new countries, but they must also [...]