Or asleep at the wheel. You’d think that a dude who has been monitoring the mouth and brain of Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia as assiduously as I have might have noticed that El Nino published a book last month. But I didn’t. The New York Times, which I also monitor rather assiduously, was…
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Hillary’s helicopters, and the world-historical moment that wasn’t
It’s been a while now since Hillary Clinton left Wesleyan in search of ecstasy, but she’s still at it, currently auditioning for the title of Joan of Arc for the Middle East, a position eminently available ever since George Bush fell on his Andover-educated ass in its pursuit. Just a couple of days ago she…
Leon Panetta, he who cannot be offended, the cuddly cherub of death.
Last week, I wrote about the willingness of the New York Times to retroactively edit a story that went so far as to point out the gross and blood-stained apparent hypocrisies in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s handling of our unhappy ally Pakistan, which occasionally frets over our policy of murdering its residents and citizens whenever…
The Revolting Realists
Last week the New York Times ran an article with the headline “Some G.O.P. Foreign Policy Experts Are Tepid on Romney,” pointing out that aging stalwarts Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, and Colin Powell have not been falling all over themselves to endorse the Mitt-Man. And Kissinger himself, always the voice of calculation if not reason,…
Didn’t get into Harvard? Maybe you’re not dumb enough!
Seriously dude, that may have been the problem, at least judging from this entry in the New York Times’ recent “debate” on drug policy in Latin America by Viridiana Rios, doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy school. The title says it all: “Drug Legalization Could Create More Crime.” Yes, it’s Viridiana’s “thesis” that “What the…
Obama: Cynical enough to save us, or cynical enough to destroy us?
A century from now, historians may praise President Obama for coolly weaning the United States from the rampant interventionism of the Bush years, and leading the U.S. to take its place as a peaceful partner in a stable, orderly world. Or it may record his presidency as the time the United States slid into a…
Please remove the beam from thine eye before asking me to remove the beam from mine eye Dept.
There I go again, attacking one of my favorite bloggers. Brad DeLong runs an item that reads, in its entirety, thus: The Los Angeles Times Gives John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter a Platform to Oppose a Just, Free, and Equal Society If Ellis and Geshekter think that America should not aim to be…
Fear the underwear
In the latest very, very dangerous CIA-invented/exposed terrorist plot, we learn, in the very, very breathless words of the LA Times, that the underwear bomb at the heart of the matter “bears the forensic signature of feared Al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan Asiri,” also connected to the dreaded underwear bomb that resulted in second-degree…
How about that Charlie Sheen? He gets more tail than Dominique Strauss-Kahn!
Yes, Dominique the Sheik, former chief of the International Monetary Fund, who’s wasted more Trojans than Achilles, is under investigation again. The prosecutor’s office in Lille, France says that Strauss-Kahn “may have sexually assaulted a Belgian prostitute at a sex party organized at the W Hotel in Washington in December 2010,” Maïa de la Baume…
James B. Stewart, lying on behalf of truth
Over at New York magazine, Jonathan Chait takes a long poke at Rep. Paul Ryan. Although I often find Jon a bit knee-jerky, when it comes to Ryan, our knees jerk in perfect time. Chait points, among other things, to the near-worshipful reception that Ryan often receives in the press, as a sort of political…