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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Not To Subjugate
Clinton Light
A very nice man, yes. A very fiscally conservative man, no. This is a must read story and pretty much sums up my feelings about Huckabee.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Primitive Sacrifice
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The Sahwa Wild Card
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Henry Points Out The Obvious
Intelligence personnel need to return to their traditional anonymity. |
Failing (Into) "Intelligence"
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And One Would Be Wrong
One would think that countries that signed the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that the United States, the only country that does not even intend to sign, keeps on emitting carbon dioxide at growth levels much higher than those who signed. |
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Proper Priorities Pope
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Not Anyone With Common Sense
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Tails We Die
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Consequences
In one of my novels a political idealist asks Paul Christopher what he believes in. Christopher replies, “I believe in consequences.” In the novel, as in politics and in life itself, you can’t know what the consequences of any act will be until you come to the end. |
Monday, December 10, 2007
Clouseau Again
At a time when Congress and the courts are conducting important hearings on the critical question of extreme interrogation, and at a time when accusations of outright torture are helping to besmirch and discredit the United States all around the world, a senior official of the CIA takes the unilateral decision to destroy the crucial evidence. This deserves to be described as what it is: mutiny and treason. Despite a string of exposures going back all the way to the Church Commission, the CIA cannot rid itself of the impression that it has the right to subvert the democratic process both abroad and at home. Its criminality and arrogance could perhaps have been partially excused if it had ever got anything right, but, from predicting the indefinite survival of the Soviet Union to denying that Saddam Hussein was going to invade Kuwait, our spymasters have a Clouseau-like record, one that they have earned yet again with their exculpation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
Serenade For A Madman
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