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George Will has now proposed his own Plan B for Afghanistan:

[F]orces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile

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I don’t have time to watch Fox News often, but I’d like to think that if I did, I would watch Glenn Beck.

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More Beck magic after the jump.

Yesterday, I wrote about Dick Cheney’s claim on Fox News Sunday that he does not object to those CIA employees who went beyond legal authorizations during interrogations. Today, I am still wading through the hundreds of pages of once-classified documents that were released last week. And I was struck by this passage, in a December 30, …

Twice in the past month, my private communications have been splashed about the internet. That such a thing would happen is unfortunate, and dishonorable, but sadly inevitable, I suppose. I ignored the first case, in which a rather pathetic woman acolyte of Greenwald’s published a hyperbolic account of a conversation I had with her at a

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Two former editors of mine, Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffrey, weigh in with a reality check on the news business, which is a must read. I don’t agree with their contention that the ad-based model is over; it is just shifting dramatically under the pressure of a major recession, to the detriment of just about everyone who makes a living …

Regular readers know that I’ve not had much positive to say about John McCain in recent years, but his smackdown of the odious Dick Cheney on the subject of torture is worth celebrating. In fact, after some reflection, I’ve changed my mind and agree with McCain on both sides of the torture equation–that it is despicable, but that Eric …

On July 20, 2007, the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo authorizing the CIA to use forced stress positions to keep certain Al Qaeda detainees awake for four days, or longer with additional approval. In making this argument, deputy assistant attorney general Steven Bradbury cited a classified CIA briefing for …

Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace was able to get an important, and clarifying, admission from Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview that was broadcast today. Wallace mentions a list of techniques that CIA agents are accused of using in violation of the legal guidance that the Bush Administration established. These include threatening …

Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s funeral at Boston’s Mission Church was a sumptuous affair with incense and tears, communion and Yo-Yo Ma, Placido Domingo and laughter. And a presidential eulogy. The coffin came late and the church sat in reverent silence waiting for Teddy’s arrival. “He would’ve adored it,” said historian Dorris Kearns …

I’m sitting in the back pew of Boston’s Mission Hill church where guests have already half filled the space two hours before the program is slated to start. The church is going through sound checks as mourners shake off their umbrellas and flick raindrops from their black and blue blazers: Tropical Storm Danny hit Boston in force during …

Mike Huckabee believes that Ted Kennedy would have been urged to die faster and cheaper under Obamacare.

It should be noted that Mike Huckabee also believes that God created the world in seven days about 5000 years ago.

I like Huckabee, personally. His religious beliefs are genuine–up to a point. He also believes in the Ten …