By Aug 16,2009

Twitter will vanquish every tyrant

Jon Last sharply questions the Twitter-euphoria generated by recent events in Tehran. In spite of rose-tinted predictions that historians would celebrate Twitter’s liberation of Iran and the beginning of a...

By Aug 12,2009

Jim Jones’ Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Moment

In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Jim Jones confirmed Bob Woodward’s account of the message that Gen. Jones brought to our commanders in Afghanistan: [CHRIS] WALLACE: The new U.S....

By Aug 12,2009

Howard Dean’s warning for Obama

Howard Dean on ABC This Week: If you’re not going to have a public option, don’t pretend you’re doing health care reform. Should Obama take this seriously, or will the...

By Aug 11,2009

“Taliban Now Winning”

It was certainly quite a jolt to pick up my Wall Street Journal and see this big headline smack in the middle of Page One: Taliban Now Winning. The article...

By Aug 03,2009

Neocons running the NY Times?

Recently, the Weekly Standard mocked the NY Times for confessing to no fewer than seven factual errors in its remembrance of Walter Cronkite. Then yesterday, the Times’ Public Editor, Clark...