Doublethink Quarterly:
The New
Dominion Blues
The GOP’s problems aren’t going away anytime soon. Virginia’s demographics have skewed away from the Republican base in recent years and show no signs of reversing.
AFF Blogs
Poetry
I’ve long hated poetry, not an easy thing to reconcile with my previous position as the assistant editor for books and arts at the Weekly Standard (my boss was often bemused with my dismissiveness f. […]
Honduras
I have to say, I’ve been relatively flummoxed by the reaction to the “coup” in Honduras. The facts as I understand them are thus: The president wanted to run for another term in office, which is. […]
Reasons to be wary of Twitter…
…despite what the service’s users say, Jeff Goldblum isn’t dead. But hey, that’s something important (celebrity gossip); I fail to see the problem with trying to formulate an American response. […]
Michael Jackson
I don’t have much to say about Michael Jackson; my colleague Kelly Jane Torrance has a fine write up of his career over at the Times’ website. I’m more of E.D. Kain/Jonah Goldberg school of thou. […]
Summer cocktails
Rod points out that the NY Times has published its summer drinks issue; Rod shares his own favorite beverage (which sounds pretty interesting; I might have to incorporate the habanero pepper into a dr. […]
Perez Hilton sucks
Tyler Durden takes Perez Hilton down a notch for being a whiny cry baby who refuses to take responsibility for his actions. Note: Slightly NSFW photo at the start of this post. But damn is it worth. […]
Racist robots
I meant to post this last night, but got sidetracked. Did you know that “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is full of racist caricatures in robot form? It is. I’ve seen it with my own two eye. […]
Seriously: Waxman-Markey is a terrible bill
The climate change bill soon to be voted on is ridiculously awful. Jim Manzi explains why: It would be a terrible deal for American taxpayers. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it is p. […]
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Honduras: Set the bar high for democracy in the Americas
With US support, the Organization of American States has threatened to expel Honduras. The Pentagon has cut off military ties. Our Secretary of State wants the actions of the Honduran government to be. […]
Gays in the military now!
This week, both the editorial columns in both the New Republic and the New Yorker are demanding that Barack Obama demonstrate his commitment to gay rights by revoking “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” s. […]
“We were all Ahmadinejads then”
Hooman Majd in TNR: One Mousavi campaign manager was asked about the brutality of [the regime], way back, when [Mousavi] was prime minister in the 1980s. The staffer answered, “We were all Ahmadinej. […]
Those GOP congressmen are traitors! Traitors!
Andrew Stuttaford remembers the good old days when liberals defended the president’s critics from accusations of deficient patriotism, or even treason. Normally, I wouldn’t call out Paul Krugman t. […]
Read my lips, (almost) no new taxes
This post is addressed only to those readers who earn less than $250,000 per year. George Stephanopoulos was doing his best yesterday morning to figure out if President Obama really meant it when he p. […]
Iran: Engagement will go forward
Laura Rozen rounds-up the think-tank zeitgeist on Obama’s intentions toward Iran. The conventional wisdom is that Tehran’s brutal crackdown has just about terminated Obama’s plans for engagement. […]
Ambassador Biden?
Peter Feaver ponders the news that the Vice President will now serve as America’s unofficial point man in Iraq. With good reason, Peter asks exactly how this set-up will work and what Biden’s rela. […]
Honduras: Can you have a democratic coup?
I’d like to complicate the way that we’re talking about what is democratic and what’s a coup. So far, one side has been saying that if the Honduran military gets rid of the president, it’s bad. […]
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