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Jeremiah Wright and Islam 2008-04-08 17:40:31 H/T: Ed Driscoll
When he honors Louis Farrakhan and says American’s chickens are coming home to roost, one has to wonder about Obama Pastor JeremiahWright
’s past affiliations.
“God Damn America,” isn’t just a metaphorical figure of speech for Pastor Wright. According to a year old article dug from the archives of The New Republic, he has [...] Read more:Islam
Hey, China Bashers: Welcome To Nixonland 2008-04-08 13:11:19 Laura Ingraham and her guest, columnist Mark Steyn, found themselves in unaccustomed agreement with Sen. Clinton this morning now that she has called on President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. At this point in her campaign, the senator is probably willing to climb aboard any bandwagon that passes by. As [...] Read more:China
, Welcome
Making A List 2008-04-08 12:52:18 It’s a journalistic rule that lists are irresistible and Politico’s new “50 Greatest Political Moments” is no exception.
Listers Bill Nichols and John F. Harris admit that “we love politics for some of the same reasons people love sports: the endless human drama.” They remind us that great doesn’t always equal important, and put it [...]
Featured Articles — April 8, 2008 2008-04-08 11:57:00 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
A deficit of leadership By Joseph Stiglitz
Economies in crisis The greatest onus is on the Bush administration and the Fed. But can we trust those who got it so wrong to put things right?
Misunderstanding Japan, Misdiagnosing America By Carl Schramm
Something about Japan brings out the rhetorical worst in the U.S. [...] Read more:Featured
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, April
MSM Reporting for MSM 2008-04-08 00:43:01 H/T: Powerline
A couple of weeks ago, The New Nixon broke the story on Hillary Clinton’s blatant gaffe of being the first First Lady in a war zone. This was an item that both the Clinton campaign, and more importantly the mainstream media completely overlooked.
Consistently, The Ancien Régime of news media has been a target of [...] Read more:Reporting
No Love for Campbell Brown? 2008-04-07 21:31:27 H/T: Michael Calderone
Dan Senor may also be presumptuous on the Condi for VP talk when he says the Secretary of State is actively courting the Arizona Senator.
Jim Geraghty from National Review asks this question in referring to Senor’s apparent revelation to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:
Doesn’t the Mrs. get any help?
The Mrs. referring to Senor’s wife and [...] Read more:Campbell
, Brown
Defeat is Un-American 2008-04-07 21:09:42 “Surge” author and general war genius Frederick Kagan goes on the attack against leftist talking points of the Iraq War. More broadly, Kagan takes issue with the“unfounded optimism about the consequences of defeat.” Read more:American
Presumptious on Jindal 2008-04-07 19:45:41 So the buzz is all about Bobby Jindal
for VP. Pundits are touting his youth, and Rush Limbaugh is calling him the next Ronald Reagan. I think it’s a bit premature for a one term Congressman who has so much work to do in the bayou. Nevertheless, the man is younger than Obama and making [...]
Moses On The Line 2008-04-07 19:24:26 Our friend Steve Clemons remembers his conversation with Charlton Heston after President Nixon’s death in April 1994.
Zeifman Waiting 2008-04-07 19:11:44 Do these renewed charges that as a young congressional staffer Hillary Clinton was carrying Watergate for the Kennedys deserve some mainstream media attention? Read more:Waiting
Real Hope 2008-04-10 00:43:34 Hillary Clinton is flailing desperately to look Presidential, and Barack Obama has visions of being the next Jimmy Carter.
More broadly, I was dumbfounded when I heard Clinton demean General Petreaus’s intellegence by complaining that his plan lacked specificity. But then again its election season.
But when Barack Obama firmly reiterated his insistence to involve Iran in [...]
Who’s Incurious Now? 2008-04-10 00:34:35 In a new poll, 61% of historians surveyed said George W. Bush was the worst President ever. A few historians may in fact have been reluctant to render historical judgement prior to the actual completion of the historial period in question:
[A] criticism that is often raised of historians making such assessments of a current president [...]
Clear And Present Danger 2008-04-10 00:02:26 For many Americans, Iran’s militancy is an abstraction. Not so in Israel. The top three items on the menu of the Jerusalem Post’s website are “Home — Headlines — Iranian Threat.” Read more:Clear
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Old Nixon Still Being Felt 2008-04-09 23:48:31 Bob Herbert is the latest to raise the Democrats’s nightmare specter of 1968, along with an instant classic in the genre of it’s-all-Nixon
’s-fault punditry:
What the Democrats have to worry about are fractures within. The big question is whether the losers in the fight for the nomination will wholeheartedly support the winners. The party was unable to get [...]
Winning McCain’s Heart and Mind 2008-04-09 23:38:44 More fretting about Sen. McCain
and the neocons, one of whom, Robert Kagan, wrote much of his LA World Affairs Council speech. Meanwhile a prominent McCain advisor named Kissinger has no comment on his candidate’s hard line on Russia. Read more:Winning
, Heart
Obama-Buchanan ‘08 2008-04-09 23:15:23 Pat Buchanan
, like Sen. Obama
an early opponent of the Iraq war, compares the results of the U.S.’s old-school approach in the Middle East to those of the neocons:
From Richard Nixon to George Bush I, we expelled Moscow from Egypt, won the Cold War, brought peace between Egypt and Israel, and created a worldwide alliance, [...]
The 3 Rs: Reading, Writing, and Ramadan 2008-04-09 18:12:30 Twin cities’ columnist Katherine Kersten appears to have uncovered an educational end run in a suburban Charter school.The city of Inver Grove Heights is home to a K-8 school called the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA).Let’s just say that her column raises more questions than it answers. Read more:Reading
Condi for Veep, continued 2008-04-09 14:14:21 Two weeks ago I discussed increasing interest in the idea of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice being picked for the vice-president’s spot on the Republican ticket. In my post I referred to a Washington Times article about a briefing with that paper’s staff in which Dr. Rice discussed her views about how far America had [...]
Joan Chen on the Olympics 2008-04-09 12:25:28 The career of Joan Chen (Shanghai-born, and a US citizen since 1989) has stretched over a quarter-century and includes many notable films in both Chinese and English, though here she is still probably best remembered for playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks. In today’s Washington Post she contributes a well-argued column presenting the case [...] Read more:Olympics
“Exit Strategy” Needs To Exit Our Vocabulary 2008-04-09 12:07:32 We should curse the day Colin Powell introduced the phrase “exit strategy” into the political lexicon. Whatever merits it once had in intelligent discourse has been smothered by its appropriation by boobs, who employ it as a incantation to simulate knowledge and sophistication international and military affairs.
“Yes, but what’s your exit strategy?” one can [...] Read more:Strategy
, Needs
, Vocabulary
The Old Clinton Not Reading The New Nixon 2008-04-11 11:40:09 Defending Sen. Clinton
, the former President repeats her erroneous statement that she was the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to visit a war zone. It was, of course, Pat Nixon
. Read more:Reading
The Preacher King: His Last Year 2008-04-11 10:46:46 Attending a national conference on preaching here in the Washington, D.C. area this past week, I noted many references to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the recently past 40th anniversary of his tragic assassination was referred to by speaker after speaker. King was certainly a giant in our history, a man of thought and [...]
Newspapers, Save Thyselves (Pt. 2) 2008-04-11 10:10:42 You read this comprehensive article by Jonathan Handel, in part about how naive people are about the cost of producing well-reported journalism, and you want to write a paean to the great American newspaper, the only organization equipped to locate expert correspondents in distant places and ensure that the people (not to mention the network producers) [...]
Time To Boycott French Fries Again? 2008-04-11 09:52:19 The Nixon Center-published “National Interest’s” Nick Gvosdev gets a plug from Andrew Sullivan for pointing out that China’s not the only country doing business with Sudan. Nick writes:
Democratic Japan–a country identified by Senator McCain as a leading power to be included in any concert or league of democracies–is Sudan’s largest export destination (48 percent)–because Sudan’s [...] Read more:Boycott
, French
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Battle Over 2008-04-11 09:43:43 Matthew Duss says the notion that the foreign policy realists and the interventionist neocons are battling for primacy in influencing Sen. McCain’s world view is “nonsense”:
The competition for McCain’s foreign policy soul is over. The neocons cleaned up, took the trophy, and went for beers (or maybe wine spritzers.) Of course McCain is still going [...] Read more:Battle
Mr. Gorbachev, Bob Dole Says Tear Down That Wall 2008-04-11 00:01:08 Br. Jonathan has just flagged (”The Perfect Defeat,” below) Jack Pitney’s fascinating column for “National Review.” Dr. P suggests that in 2008 some conservative Republicans may be hoping for another 1976, when moderate Gerald Ford, though defeated by Jimmy Carter, ran well enough to hold onto some key congressional seats:
[The] narrowness [of Ford’s loss] kept [...]
The Perfect Defeat 2008-04-10 23:44:19 New Nixon contributor and Claremont professor Jack Pitney has his feature up at National Review Online. Interestingly Dr. Pitney describes the not-so-bad defeat of Gerald Ford in the 1976 Presidential election. Though the hardly charismatic incumbent lost, his coat tails were strong enough to hedge the previous defeats in the 1974 midterm elections.
Pitney continues [...] Read more:Perfect
Iran Yes, Hamas No? 2008-04-10 23:09:32 Steve Clemons faults Sen. Obama for opposing Jimmy Carter’s plans to meet with Hamas
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Exporting Jihad 2008-04-10 19:25:35 The launch of Katusha rockets from Hezbollah in the Summer of 2006 into Israel is a devastating prospect to relive. These events were a product of the rapid evolution of Islamic paramilitary groups. Like their left wing and Latin American forefathers, they’ve combined the slash and burn tactics of guerrilla warfare with revolutionary radicalism and [...] Read more:Exporting
, Jihad
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