By • Mar 12,2009

The Prop. 8 Blacklist, cont.

From the Weekly Standard: Until now, donating to a cause did not open private citizens to a battery of invective and jackboot tactics. While celebrities sport their moral vanity with...

By • Mar 12,2009

He’s goin’ hungry

I’ve always found Daniel Larison’s ability to toss off elaborate yet concisely-argued blog posts in the time it takes me to pee a bit daunting. Where most bloggers draft sentence...

By • Mar 11,2009

Jacobs on Freeman

I think Alan Jacobs gets at the heart of the Chas Freeman question in a characteristically smart post over at the Scene: 2) Freeman and his supporters insist that in...

By • Mar 11,2009

Raul Castro’s Cuba

HAVANA, CUBA– Whenever it seems as though something momentous and exciting is about to happen here, prepare to be disappointed. In spite of earlier signs of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba...

By • Mar 10,2009

No sense of irony at the Weekly Standard

Charles Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has been torpedoed as President Obama’s and Admiral Dennis Blair’s choice to head the National Intelligence Council, which prepares national intelligence estimates....