The last time we checked in with NRO’s John Derbyshire, he was expounding on his own hypothetical bravery regarding Iranian hostage-takers. Today, we learn that he also is completely fearless in imaginary domestic scenarios as well:
Spirit of Self-Defense [John Derbyshire]
As NRO’s designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask:
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The Wolfowitz scandal has been rather opaque for me — beyond the sadly unsurprising news of a Bush administration official practicing cronyism, why is it such a big deal? The New Republic’s Michael Currie Schaffer does a great job of laying out the pragmatic case for seeing Wolfowitz’s missteps as a very serious blow to our national …
Dana Perino channels the presidential sentiments on the Va Tech tragedy:
As far as policy, the President believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed. And certainly bringing a gun into a school dormitory and shooting — I don’t want to say numbers because I know that they’re still trying to
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HRC folks have been pushing back against allegations that their fundraising style is not just aggressive, but threatening and retaliatory. Their best argument thus far was that none of the donors who feel like their arms were twisted have been willing to go on the record — well, there was one: Jim Neal, uncovered by the NYT’s Pat Healy, …
One of our colleagues is sifting through the latest DOJ document dump as we type and he’s already come across something interesting. In the spreadsheet the DOJ compiled to help decide which USAs to target, there are columns for, among other things, legal experience, educational experience and… Federalist Society membership. I guess …
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Several state and county Republican groups celebrate their …
Because there is not enough love on this blog: Olbermann really should set his sights, uh, lower. Karen’s initial post was a reasonable query and she got a response posted from the campaign within minutes. It wasn’t an accusation left to lie out and fester a la Mary Ann Akers’ Edwards “sympathy card” allegation; one would think …
CBS has fired Don Imus. We’ll see how he does on satellite. He might be quite lonely.
UPDATE: Great minds think alike, but sometimes I luck out too. Sorry to echo you, Karen.
Dana Perino told reporters only a “handful” of WH staffers had RNC “@gwb43.com” addresses. She later amended that to a “big handful.”
The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington now says that the “Bush White House has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period.” Insert “you know what they say about big hands” joke …
Time’s latest poll has good news for Mitt Romney, and that’s pretty much it (he’s cut in half the people who have haven’t heard of him!). There’s less good but certainly not bad news for Obama and Edwards, who have both narrowed Hillary’s lead. Interestingly, Obama is the only Dem with a lead in general election match-ups, and he ties …
Yes, the White House “losing” those not-quite-White House emails is the big news today regarding the fate of Gonzales, the administration, etc, but this story — about the pointless prosecution of non-existent voter fraud — reminds us of just how hollow the original pretense for firing those USAs was to begin with:
Mistakes and lapses
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For a fatalist, he was admirably joyful:
(talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a
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My piece on why I’m pulling out of the Imus country club is online now (it’s a sidebar to an excellent essay by Jim Poniewozik):
I’m embarrassed to admit that it took Imus’ saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my
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