By • Nov 21,2008

This is gruesome?

I really don’t get what’s so gruesome about this video: If you don’t have time to watch the 3 minute video, it goes something like this: dead turkey gets pulled...

By • Nov 21,2008

It’s Hillary

Mike Allen reports that Obama’s tapped Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State. I’m skeptical of the pick, and I think she’d make a better Secretary of Defense. The military...

By • Nov 20,2008

A jaw-dropper

When it comes to the war on drugs, here are two awfully good reasons not to be a supply-sider: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA obstructed inquiries into its role in...

By • Nov 20,2008

Getting out of Gitmo

A U.S. judge has ordered that five Algerians captured in Bosnia after the September 11th attacks be freed from Guantanamo. My colleague Chris Boucek does groundbreaking work on counterterrorism and...

By • Nov 20,2008

A Loss of Shared Teleology

Rod Dreher, with a little help from Alasdair MacIntyre, pins the source of the impasse in the gay marriage debate: a loss of a shared teleology, hence much of the...