Lee on Sep 08 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Andrew Cochran reports that some media organizations he’s familiar with have reassigned terrorism specialists to investigate Sarah Palin. Andrew sees this as part of a long-term decline of media interest in the threat of transnational terrorism and US counterterrorism policy, in favor of more marketable domestic political squabbling. Atlas on the other hand, takes it [...]
Peg on Aug 17 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Media, Peg's Page
And now? The end of the mainstream media as we know it.
Edwards, 55, now admits that he had an affair with Hunter, now 44,in 2006, but denies that he is the father of the child she had in February. Andrew Young, another former Edwards aide, has said he is the baby’s father. In a statement [...]
Peg on Aug 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Money in a freezer. Sex scandals on either side of the aisle. Cozy relations with developers, lobbyists and businessmen. Someone call the Ethics Committee!
Done.
Here’s why.
No wonder it’s difficult to find almost any profession with ratings lower than those of Congress.
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Lee on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Last night Joshua argued that Saakashvili, having quite obviously failed to recapture his renegade territories, is certain to be finished one way or the other. Either overthrown by the Russian army, or by the Georgian people at the ballot box. This is a bit of an analyst consensus as you look around the web. Not [...]
MichaelW on Jun 28 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Election 2008, MichaelW's Page
From an interview by Stephen Moore (HT: GR):
So what if a President Barack Obama were to impose 50% or 60% tax rates on these CEOs and other big earners? Mr. Gramm pounces: “When you help a company raise capital, to put its idea to work, and you create jobs, those jobs are the best housing [...]
Lee on Jun 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
According to social psychologist William Szlemko, people who adorn their cars with bumper stickers are far more likely to engage in road rage. Seems like a perfectly sensible conclusion to me. Anyone who would in effect vandalize their own car just to try to force a point to some nameless stranger behind them, has to [...]
MichaelW on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Media, MichaelW's Page
R.I.P. Tim Russert:
Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after being stricken at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.
Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” broadcast when he collapsed, the network said.
He had recently returned from Italy, where his family was [...]
Joshua Foust on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Developmental economics, Foreign affairs
Cross-posted from Registan.net, your one-stop shop for news and analysis of going on in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Thirteen months ago, I noted the problems caused by the U.S. State Department having dramatically different divisions than the military COCOMs.
The DoD considers Pakistan part of the Central Command, or CENTCOM (which includes the Middle East [...]
MichaelW on Apr 10 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, MichaelW's Page
I have no idea who’s going to win the election this year, but as I attempt to handicap the race I’m drawn to the old saw that the person with whom most people would rather sit down at a local watering hole and knock back a few tall cold ones with will be the eventual [...]
Lance on Feb 18 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page
The Man of System…is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it… He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members [...]
Lee on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
photo: Talatu-Carmen
Tony Harnden: “Initially, it was said just young people voted for Obama. Then it was young people and affluent white. Then it was young people, affluent whites and black people. Then it was young people, affluent whites, black people and white males. Well, in Maryland last night he won women, Hispanics, Catholics and seniors [...]
MichaelW on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, Philosophy, social science
For your viewing pleasure, watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali effortlessly dismantle the typical leftist tropes thrown at her in an interview with Avi Lewis (Naomi Klein’s husband). The quote serving as the title comes across as venomously pointed when read, but when Ali delivers it towards the end of the interview it sounds perfectly reasonable [...]
Peg on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Peg's Page, Society
(Cross posted at What if?)
Did Rudy lose because the purportedly “ruthless” candidate was too nice?
Most critical in the closing days of the contest, when he desperately needed to reinsert himself into the narrative, was Giuliani’s inexplicable refusal to draw contrasts with his rivals, especially the surging McCain, whose votes were coming directly out of [...]
Lee on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Has Barack Obama run out of ideas before he’s even had one? This might be an indication that Barack’s shallow and vague message of “change” is dying for a definition: “Radio stations in New England are broadcasting a ski-area ad in which a mock political candidate with a voice like Obama’s declares Killington to be [...]
Lance on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Books, Culture, Domestic Politics, History, Lance's Page
Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would really be interested in picking that discussion back up. So anybody interested, please read the [...]
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