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I don’t think there’s much question that there’s been progress in Iraq. Some markets seem to be flourishing, American deaths are down. That phantasma-gory-a of suicide bombings one day after another may even be petering out. Hallelujah. I remember a…

Giuliani’s dangerous assembly of neocon advisers suits his temperament. Giuliani is hotheaded and operatic. I wonder if it also doesn’t serve his fundraising interests. Neoconservatism is a largely Jewish movement, and a large amount of political giving is now Jewish….

Here is a wonderful blog item by Scott MacLeod of Time Magazine, about Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before the House yesterday. The perspicacious MacLeod notes Condi’s words doubting the two-state solution. Our concern is growing that without a serious political prospect…

I had a brilliant mentor in journalism in Zachary Stalberg, the former editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. He hated natural disaster stories. “No villain.” (Of course the global warming angle does bring back the good-and-evil narrative. )