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Ronald Reagan Wannabes
Washington Examiner cartoonist Nate Beeler sums up the Republican contest thus far quite aptly: In the accompanying commentary, Beeler observes, “While the Republican heavies snipe at each other over...
View ArticlePakistan Dictator Consolidates Power
I was away to attend a wedding this weekend and have barely been paying attention to non-football-related news. There’s lots of blogospheric reaction to the mess that’s unfolding in Pakistan, with...
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Lech Walesa to Get Heart Transplant
Lech Walesa is comign to Houston for a heart transplant. Former Polish President and Solidarity movement leader Lech Walesa said on Wednesday he planned to have a heart transplant in the United States....
View ArticleRon Paul – Ralph Nader, Bill Buckley, or Howard Dean?
John Derbyshire and Andrew Sullivan see great similarity’s between Ron Paul and a young William F. Buckley, Jr. John Podhoretz and Richard Fernandez, though, see more similarities between Paul and...
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Improving America’s Image Around the World
Slate‘s Fred Kaplan surveys his readers for ideas on improving America’s image around the world. Most of the suggestions revolve around travel and cultural interaction, such as expanding foreign...
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Mike Huckabee – False Conservative?
Bob Novak has a scathing attack on Mike Huckabee’s conservative credentials. Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist advocate of...
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McCain Declares Cuba Policy a Success
Senator John McCain declared our policy of containment towards Cuba a success and declared his support for an independent Kosovo in a conference call with bloggers this afternoon. He made some opening...
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Going to War with the Ideology You Have
Kevin Drum, responding to Jonah Goldberg‘s argument that George Packer‘s “The Fall of Conservatism” erroneously conflates conservatism with the Republican Party, retorts: No political ideology lives...
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Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?
I found this earlier and had to share: As best I can tell from Googling, this is not a PhotoShop but an actual ad circa 1930. The image has the watermark of the Georgetown Book Shop, which offers the...
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Pulling Out: Debating Middle East Disengagement (Affirmative)
On January 23, 1980 President Jimmy Carter enunciated what became known as the Carter Doctrine. He stated, “An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded...
View ArticleForeign Policy Blogging
Over at New Atlanticist, I’ve written several foreign policy-related posts. Fighting Poverty with Profit looks at a persuasive editorial calling for a radical new approach to development aid. Poland...
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The End of Fascism
Megan McArdle calls for an extension of Godwin’s Law that would put an end to “using the word fascist to apply to the current, or indeed previous, administration.” How is this helpful? Has clarifying...
View ArticleState of the Republican Party
Some loosely related threads seen on memeorandum this morning: California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger allows as to how he could conceivably endorse a Democrat as his successor — while...
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Thomas Friedman Extols the Virtues of Communism
Thomas Friedman‘s latest column, in which he argues Communist China’s system is preferable to ours because it “can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move...
View ArticleThe Specter of Communism Still Looms
A Stalin-era mass grave was recently uncovered in Russia. Most of the skulls had bullet holes and appear to be victims of Stalin’s purges.
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