Interesting article by David Weigel in Slate: Romney was right. Why was Obama wrong? Because, I think, he was willfully blurring the distinction between “geopolitical” and other sorts of threats. He was playing to the cheap seats. Voters do not … Continue reading →
…at this warning from President Obama: “We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside of Ukraine,” Obama said in a hastily arranged public statement from the White House briefing room. “Just days … Continue reading →
Report from Venezuela: A grave line has been crossed. Real, physical violence is finally catching up with the huge reserve of pent-up rhetorical violence we’ve suffered through since 1999. We’ve spent 15 years fearing this. Now we’re living it. [NOTE: … Continue reading →
…has ended, according to Walter Russell Mead. I never thought much of this “end of history” stuff in the first place. Perhaps I didn’t quite get what Fukuyama was saying, but it seemed absurd to me. History may repeat itself … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Instapundit] Wind power sounds like a wonderful thing, a renewable resource that’s clean and available and could help wean us off our dependence on fossil fuels from sketchy foreign countries. All that’s needed is the will to do … Continue reading →
We’ve been hearing the word “disaster” in connection with the nuclear reactors in Japan, usually in the context of phrases such as, “Japanese teams work mightily to avoid looming disaster.” But what is the definition of a disaster these days? … Continue reading →
Patrick Desbois is a French priest with a special calling: he has dedicated himself to documenting the mass murders of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazis during World War II, committed in the days before the efficiency of gas chamber and … Continue reading →
…no. But it may have peaked and even be on the decline—for the moment. This Newsweek article on the subject reads as though it were written by a committee—and, as it turns out, perhaps it was. No less than seven … Continue reading →
The thread on Iraqi federalism inspired a debate in the comments section about whether Iraq is facing a civil war or a religious war, or neither, or both. Perhaps it’s just a question of semantics. We could (and no doubt … Continue reading →
Wretchard at Belmont Club has a post about the France2 case, in which he asks the following question: While the Press is probably honest in most things — who won the NASCAR race, what the stock price is, who won … Continue reading →
The first time I ever saw a photo of Lenin’s embalmed corpse on display in its mausoleum in Moscow, the sight gave me the creeps. There was something dreadful about making a body into an icon–a sort of zombie-esque quality … Continue reading →
Let’s see now, we’ve got the Freedom Trifecta of Howard, Bush, and Blair (in chronological order), all somehow re-elected and returned to power despite the incessant carping of the left. Then of course there’s Afghanistan, in its second largely peaceful … Continue reading →