Author: AF Editors

By Jan 06,2010

Joe Biden, Proud Intellectual

In case you missed it, the Weekly Standard had an amusing article a couple of weeks ago about the Veep’s efforts to smarten up his speeches with quotes from famous...

By Jan 06,2010

Brennan bashes Cheney, talks tough

On Sunday morning, White House counterrerrorism adviser John Brennan responded furiously to Dick Cheney’s recent criticism of President Obama. You can listen to Brennan here, to get a sense of...

By Jan 05,2010

The Xmas bomber: No big deal?

David Brooks: DAVID BROOKS: To me, the whole reaction was overwrought. We have all these geniuses who are, post hoc, that they could have figured out if only they were...

By Jan 05,2010

Zero KIA in Iraq in December

Who seriously thought this was possible? Not one American soldier was killed in combat in Iraq last month. I’m certainly very happy about it, but I won’t pretend that I...

By Dec 30,2009

Even the liberal New Republic…

…publishes enough cliche tripe polemics [UPDATE: The original word was less than civil] to justify the adjective “liberal”. Now, it is certainly true that TNR generates enough heresy to justify...