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Forty Years On 2008-03-26 03:35:02 Tariq Ali is sixty-four years old. But instead of asking age appropriate questions like “Will you still need me?” and “Will you still feed me?” he is asking “Where Has All the Rage Gone?”
Prompted by a TV show called “Revolution 68”, he asked that very question last Sunday in The Guardian, in a long and [...] Read more:Years
Wrong Again, Sen. Clinton. It Was Pat Nixon. 2008-03-26 00:49:12 Sen. Clinton
erred again today even as she admitted she misspoke about her experience in Bosnia as First Lady:
Clinton backpedalled Tuesday, saying that she had “made a mistake in describing it. “We were … very much told by the Secret Service and the military that we were going into a war zone and that we [...] Read more:Wrong
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Commons Iraq Minority Survives 2008-03-25 23:17:12 Now narrowed from 67 to 35 percent of the British House of Commons
, the now Labour led Iraq
minority coalition survives what would be an unnecessarily immediate inquiry into the Iraq War. The Torie led anti-war coalition should lay off until the mission is done. Political cunning and trickery are never more honorable than the [...] Read more:Minority
Transfer of Nuclear Materials Rampant 2008-03-25 22:54:44 Jay Davis from the Washington Post reports that since 1993 there have been 1,300 incidents of illicit transfer of plutonium and heavily enriched uranium; both capable of producing an atomic bomb. And unlike 9/11, there won’t be time to respond if God forbid a nuclear weapon ends up in a terrorist’s hands.
It is quite possible [...] Read more:Nuclear
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What Happens When Murdoch Owns Everything? 2008-03-25 22:48:43 Dubiously calling its conservative publisher “Hillary’s Rev. Wright,” “Slate’s” Timothy Noah questions why she met with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Read more:Murdoch
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More New Nixons 2008-03-25 22:38:55 United for years as members of The Nixon Center board, Sens. McCain and Lieberman are campaigning together regularly as well.
Obamush 2008-03-25 19:46:27 I read this primer by Spencer Ackerman on Sen. Obama’s foreign policy three times and still don’t know what he plans to do. Far as I can tell, this is the nub of the argument:
What’s typically neglected in [the Bush Doctrine’s democracy-promotion] arguments is the simple insight that democracy does not fill stomachs, alleviate malaria, or [...]
The New Nixon’s Man In Taipei 2008-03-25 18:55:22 This Saturday, I had the pleasure to observe the presidential elections in Taiwan. The country’s fourth direct presidential election, it was a historic moment seeing the Kuomingtang (KMT) return to power in a landslide victory after eight years in opposition to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The party of Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT has evolved [...] Read more:Nixon
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Actually, He Was On Our Side 2008-03-25 18:51:47 In an article about Fred Thomspon returning to show business, Forbes.com reports:
As the minority counsel on the Watergate hearings, a young Thompson played a crucial role in bringing down corrupt President Richard Nixon.
Plus: “Corrupt”? Read more:Actually
One for 12, But Who’s Counting? 2008-03-25 18:49:57 The dependably snarky Wonkette turns a comedic (and uncharacteristically understated) eye on Hillary Clinton’s latest self-inflicted injury involving the Tuzlagate imbroglio.
As if the situation weren’t already bad enough, the Senator went on the radio this morning with Pittsburgh’s KDKA morning man Larry Richert, and actually said: “…last week, you know, for the first time in [...] Read more:Counting
Condoleezza for Veep? 2008-03-28 15:55:59 Although Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice stated as recently as last month that she planned to return to academic life at Stanford and had no plans to seek elective office, the rumors surrounding the possibility of her joining the Republican ticket come September in St. Paul refuse to go away. Indeed, they were revived on Wednesday morning when [...]
Once again, the Canal Zone question 2008-03-28 15:28:27 The Associated Press reports that former Solicitor General Ted Olson and Harvard law professor Laurence H. Tribe - one a Republican, the other a Democrat - have concluded that Sen. John McCain is not disqualified from taking office as President, should he be elected, because he was born in the Panama Canal
Zone in 1936.
This is a question [...]
DEAD HEAT - A Good Read 2008-03-28 14:14:38 Go to the fiction section of any local bookstore - mega or micro - and you’ll encounter title after title dealing with international intrigue, terrorism, and conspiracy in high places. These subjects have long been popular, but it seems that they are more so these days, as geopolitical reality unfolds before our eyes. Many novels [...] Read more:Good Read
Cuba Libre on Cell Phones 2008-03-28 11:05:29 Well it’s a start. Previously restricted for elites and foreign tourists, ordinary Cubans can now call their BFF’s. If they can afford the contracts from the state owned telecommunications monopoly ETECSA (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A), it might offer a more interesting diversion than what’s disposable from their 20 dollar monthly stipend. Read more:Libre
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Don’t Leave Fact Finding to the Net Roots 2008-03-28 08:59:18 The leftist net roots and general media bias are at it again. And they should really know better by now after the tragic falls of the likes Dan Rather and Jayson Blair. Michael Calderone reports in Politico that the liberal blog Think Progress tried to fuse an exclusive and explosive plagiarism bomb against John McCain, only to have it explode in their faces. Read more:Leave
Rumsfeld Has the Right Idea on NATO 2008-03-28 08:40:02 As I wrote yesterday, there is no essential threshold mandate for the function of NATO. And as Donald Rumsfeld
rightly writes today in the Wall Street Journal, the alliance should be augmented, reinvingorated, and diverse in participation.
Rumsfeld also proposes the extention of an Eastern regional bloc which would include Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Georgia, and the Ukraine.
A larger, reinvigorated alliance, with three new members and two [...] Read more:Right
Featured Articles — March 28, 2008 2008-03-28 08:20:50 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Two Cheers for Free Trade By Chris Farrell
Pacts like Nafta are essential to the health of the U.S. economy, but we could do a lot more to relieve the unpleasant side effects.
Trade Secrets by John B. Judis
The real problem with NAFTA.
GOP Achilles Heel By Ryan Sager
How Republicans Lost West.
Getting Mrs. [...] Read more:Featured
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Laughing Matters 2008-03-27 23:12:11 From the evidence of the C-SPAN broadcast, the Washington Press Club’s annual congressional dinner, held early last month, was the usual mix of you-had-to-be-there boredom and self congratulation that is, at least on one level, the point of such occasions.
It was, however, enlivened by something of a star turn on the part of Congressman Rahm [...] Read more:Laughing
No Levelling for NATO 2008-03-27 22:10:51 While Germany’s and Spain’s troop commitment to the Iraq War has been disappointing, Robert Kaplan has it right when he refutes the federative in favor of the functional approach to NATO. While intended to be a all-for-one and one-for-all alliance, there is no essential threshold mandate of participation. Kaplan argues that the structure of the NATO alliance has a [...]
Obama’s Folly 2008-03-27 19:27:22 Obama’s folly can be summed up in his foreign policy. Whether due to his innate proclivities to associate himself with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, his callow youth, or his Euro-socialist style anemic diplomacy, the prospects of his potential statesmanship don’t look too promising. Far from the muscular pragmatism of Richard Nixon, the moral clarity of Ronald Reagan, and the [...] Read more:Obama
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TWTW2/5 2008-03-30 23:36:24 TWTW2/5
23-29 MARCH 2008
The week began with UPI story (picked up by very few papers — go figure) about a study by two Harvard economists indicating that “publicly voiced doubts about the U.S. occupation of Iraq have a measurable ‘emboldenment effect’ on insurgents there.” In fact, they found that a 5 – 10% increase [...]
The Tears of August 2008-03-30 20:59:14 C-SPAN has just broadcast the first half of a two hour interview with former CBS newsman Roger Mudd. The occasion is the publication of his memoir The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.
C-SPAN grand poobah Brian Lamb does his usual artfully artless job as interviewer. Despite Mr. [...] Read more:Tears
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Dith Pran RIP 2008-03-30 18:44:04 Dith Pran, the translator who survived the killing fields of Cambodia, died earlier today of pancreatic cancer; he was 65. He worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times. He was made internationally famous when the actor who portrayed him (Dr. Haing S. Ngor) in the 1984 film The Killing Fields [...]
Poetry In Motion 2008-03-30 16:29:57 A couple of weeks ago our colleague Robert Nedelkoff wrote movingly about Harry Patch, at 109 years of age Britain’s last surviving World War One soldier.
It turns out that Andrew Motion
, the British Poet Laureate, was commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the event in his own particular way. Mr. Motion was pragmatic (and [...] Read more:Poetry
Sadr Relenting 2008-03-30 12:38:04 Shiite cleric and terrorist MUqtada Al-Sadr is apparently relenting under the pressure of U.S. forces. Al-Sadr has been a pest and has had considerable leverage in Iraqi politics ever since the initial 2003 invasion, leading a series of uprisals responsible for massive casualities and regional destabilization. Now that Sadr is striking a more concilliatory tone, its very tempting to consider a diplomatic [...]
Anti-heroes and Anti-valets Upping the Ante 2008-03-30 07:00:53 Robert Harris’s novel The Ghost had considerable success in Britain where it was seen as a very thinly veiled roman a clef. The just-recently-ex PM in the book, Adam Lang, overlaps in almost every way (up to and including the same number of syllables in their names) with the just-recently-ex British PM Tony Blair.
Mr. Harris, [...] Read more:heroes
Hard Corps Comedy 2008-03-30 06:00:13 The Daily Show’s Rob Riggle, himself a former Marine, recently filed a very amusing —and very trenchant— piece about the Corps
’ decision to open a recruiting station in Berkeley. Read more:Comedy
Featured Articles — March 30, 2008 2008-03-30 02:08:58 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
How to Win in a Knife Fight By Karl Rove
The Democratic race could well come down to the first contested convention in years. Lessons on how to prevail.
America and Baseball By George Will
Washington’s first major league baseball team, the Senators, was owned by Clark Griffith, who, in the democratic, give-the-people-what-they-want [...] Read more:Featured
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Madness and Method 2008-03-29 20:28:50 As March Madness
approaches its apotheosis, one might well welcome it as a relief from the all politics all the time preoccupation everywhere else.
And yet…..and yet…..it’s today’s entry in “The Quad” —New York Times sports editor Tom Jolly’s college sports blog— that may just have convinced me that Senator Obama is, in fact, unbeatable for [...]
You Can Run But You Can’t Hide 2008-03-29 18:14:29 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson may want to consider moving to a small town and beginning life under a new name. After reading James Carville’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post —”Disloyalty That Merits An Insult”— it is clear that the facial hair the Governor recently sprouted won’t be enough to disguise him when the day [...]
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