Author: AF Editors

By • Feb 01,2009

Iraqi election results a blow to Iran

Max Boot: Assuming that the preliminary results hold up, it will be another blow to Iran, which already suffered repudiation last year when the Iraqi parliament came to terms on...

By • Feb 01,2009

Obama reaches out to the Muslim world

I may have a slightly more positive reaction than other conservative-types to Obama’s interview with Al-Arabiya. Now, I certainly agree with Charles Krauthammer and others that Obama’s thumbnail history of...

By • Jan 30,2009

What would Popeye Doyle do?

In an orgy of narco-trafficking cinema, I recently watched The French Connection and the Infernal Affairs trilogy (upon which the inferior The Departed was based). Both films are full of...

By • Jan 30,2009

Bill Kristol: Maoist

Not content with being labeled a Trotskyite, Bill Kristol is now aiming for Maoist with a piece in the Weekly Standard entitled, “Let 1,000 Republican Flowers Bloom.” The piece itself...

By • Jan 30,2009

Prole Arthouse

When it comes to the economy, the news is emphatically Not Good.  The national unemployment rate reached 7.2% in December, and if the loss of over 50,000 jobs announced Monday is...

By • Jan 29,2009

Russia lowers the volume

Steve Biegun: Sources within the Russian Ministry of Defense appear to be hinting at a retreat from their plan (which Medvedev announced in his November 5 speech) to deploy Iskander...