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Fouad Ajami makes a monstrous argument in defending remarks Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told servicemembers in Iraq that ““The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked.” Our country made its way to Iraq some 18 months after 9/11 because the menace against America in that time of […]

The UK has been rocked by a scandal involving reporters for several news publications owned by Newscorp CEO Robert Murdoch (who also owns Fox News) engaging in phone hacking and bribery in order to get stories. With the news that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was among the targets, Newscorp’s takeover of British Sky Broadcasting, […]

The Obama administration has been coy about its legal justification for putting Somali terror suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame in military detention prior to transferring him to an Article III court for prosecution, but Charlie Savage has a piece that sheds some light on their thinking: But the administration does not consider the United States to […]

Zerlina Maxwell looks at this New York Observer list of “media power couples” and asks, “Really, guys? You would think a list this large could stand to be a little more diverse, right?” I think the “power couples” feature is dumb, because it makes me feel like high school never ends. Not my high school […]

Following my response to Jonathan Last earlier, I went back and read his review of Mara Hvistendahl‘s book, where he reaches peak anti-anti racism: She says that the reason surplus men in the American West didn’t take Native American women as brides was that “their particular Anglo-Saxon breed of racism precluded intermixing.” (Through most of […]

I was going to respond to Andrew Sullivan‘s argument that “”no American Jew can conceive of a situation in which they would walk away from Israel, then there is no leverage at all to persuade Israel to act responsibly to save Zionism’s soul, or to behave as a constructive ally of the United States,” but […]

So having made it through three seasons of Battlestar Galactica, I can affirmatively say that Jonah Goldberg‘s theory that the occupation of New Caprica arc was pro-suicide bombing, complaining that “The humans were no longer analogized to Americans; rather Americans were analogized to genocidal occupiers,” is transparently silly. The truth is that the audience was […]

Step One: Insist on extending tax cuts for high earners that vastly increase the deficit. Step Two: Panic over long term deficit projections.

Birther King Donald Trump was polling well as a GOP presidential contender for weeks based on his willingness to suggest the president wasn’t born in the United States and attack him as an undeserving affirmative action baby, because it’s not like Trump was a mediocre student who went on to work at his father’s real […]

I’ll be at Rep. Peter King‘s new hearings on Muslim radicalization focused on prisons today, but the big story right now is the first showdown between Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and the administration over an ATF program through which Issa alleges several gun traffickers were allowed to walk on the presumption that they […]