By Nov 10,2008

St. Douglas the Confessor

While perusing Sonny’s fine post and the links therein to the Kmiec–Douthat dustup, I also chanced upon Kmiec’s counter-response to Douthat’s biting takedown. It’s worth a quick read, if only...

By Nov 09,2008

Obama administration’s first leak?

Or Bush administration sticking them with it? The New York Times reports (advance from tomorrow’s International Herald Tribune): WASHINGTON: The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority...

By Nov 08,2008

When does bad taste become violence?

I couldn’t resist Googling around about Danzig the other night. It’s pretty hilarious the sorts of things you find on the internets. But this mySpace page is particularly disturbing. At...

By Nov 08,2008

Berlusconi reflux

My sister’s got a nice roundup of Berlusconi gaffes, in light of his latest: ROME — Italians never quite know whether to laugh or cry at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi....

By Nov 07,2008

Good grief

If this New York Times piece is true, it’s time to start rethinking U.S. policy toward Georgia: TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning...