By • Dec 15,2008

On Responsibility

Andrew Sullivan, amidst his regular shellacking of the Bush administration over torture, slips in the following: Bush will rightly go down in history as the president who authorized the torture...

By • Dec 15,2008

Headline of the Month

And the award goes to Brendan Conway for “He Madoff with It”, the title to his post in which he notes the wide-ranging effects of the $50 billion swindle by...

By • Dec 15,2008

Bones

It’s still early here on the East Coast, but I’d wager Alex Massie’s penned the best quip I’m likely to read all day: One other thing: “Some of our NATO...

By • Dec 14,2008

Oil Betrays Chavez

Late last month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took a beating at the ballot box, where his party lost gubernatorial races in five states and the mayorship of the capital city,...

By • Dec 14,2008

Alert: Fiddling While Rome Burns

There’s a time and a place for pieces like these, and this isn’t it. Deborah Howell of the Washington Post writes that: Women and men read The Post in roughly...

By • Dec 14,2008

Crackers

James Poulos has identified the one thing above all that guarantees success in foreign policy writing: the catchphrase! Fukuyama had “The End of History”, Huntington had the “Clash of Civilizations”....