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Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer have been sort of doleful in their appearances on FOX News lately, looking like their hearts are just not in it. Not hard to see why: it looks like cardboard cut-out and moderate Republican Mitt Romney will be their party’s presidential nominee. On the national security front, it’s been difficult [...]
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As someone who was born in Iowa, I’m pleased to see many Iowans flocking to support Ron Paul. The Washington Post has a tut-tutting front-page story today complaining that Paul’s 45-minute stump speech “outlines a view of the world so bleak it would make Chicken Little sound like an optimist.” It is not surprising that [...]
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I received a “happy holidays” email from The Atlantic’s ubiquitous Steve Clemons yesterday. Normally I stop dead when I see the expression “happy holidays” but on this occasion I persevered and was rewarded with a bit of political folderol which was too deliciously bizarre not to share. Steve is a progressive who sees himself as a [...]
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If there is any better example of the Republican establishment’s dismay at Newt Gingrich’s surge in the presidential primary polls, I’d like to see it. Michael Gerson, the evangelical Christian and The Washington Post’s Republican faith & politics columnist, came out swinging Tuesday in an unusual fusillade calling into question Newt’s intellectualism, religious tolerance and [...]
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What do American Conservative readers think about Tim Tebow? I have just finished watching the Denver Broncos’ come from behind victory over the Chicago Bears in which Denver, losing 10-0, scored a touchdown and field goal in two minutes to tie the score and then made an amazing defensive play in overtime that led to [...]
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There is a wonderfully invective meme blazing across the Internet thanks to FOX News’ Megyn Kelly, who told Bill Reilly in an amazingly mendacious grasp at justification yesterday that pepper spray is “a food product, essentially,” in relation to the line of kneeling student protesters at UC Davis who were sprayed methodically in their faces [...]
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John Derbyshire reviews Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin – Derbyshire says that while he does not hold any obvious malice, Robin is operating under false pretenses about conservatism. Meanwhile, at The New Inquiry, Robin engages in a debate with TAC‘s Daniel Larison. John Payne pays a visit to Occupy [...]
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The US Army is leaving Iraq at the end of the year or maybe not depending on how the negotiations on thousands of trainers works out. Why remain in Iraq at all? According to the State Department it’s to maintain “situational awareness around the country, manage political crises in potential hotspots such as Kirkuk, and provide [...]
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UPDATE: Diplopundit posts the redactions the State Department has demanded from Van Buren’s book, highlighting the alleged “unauthorized disclosure of classified information.” Foreign Service Officer Peter Van Buren had his Top Secret clearance suspended today and his diplomatic passport impounded. He was asked to turn the materials over at the State Department’s offices in Rosslyn, [...]
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All this hoopla over the alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican drug lords to carry out an assassination of a Saudi at a fictitious DC restaurant – I knew there was something very strange about this… And then I read that the linchpin of the case is a paid Drug Enforcement Administration informant who recently [...]
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