The American Enterprise Institute has been all over the New York Times this week. First it was Sally Satel, resident scholar, on the Op-Ed page Monday, saying Let’s have a free market for the sale of human organs. Then yesterday…
Today’s Times has a good piece about the leftwing rage toward Joe Lieberman for being George Bush’s lapdog on the disastrous Iraq policy. Even the Daily Kos has come out for Lieberman’s primary opponent, Ned Lamont, who wants Connecticut to…
On Sunday I left my mom a message, thereby getting essential Mother’s Day credit, and when we talked yesterday she said excitedly that she had heard rumors that Karl Rove was about to be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak…
One of the planners of the Iraq war, Michael Rubin, has written a piece for National Review about a March trip to Iceland during which demonstrators assailed him for “war crimes.” Rubin is upset about this, saying that it reflects…
What if George Bush were to say tomorrow that our motivation for going into Iraq was to secure oil wealth for the west and to protect Israel—might that reverse his slide in the polls? A splendid post on Syria Comment,…
Andrew Sullivan is once again horrified by reports of widespread American torture, this time from Amnesty International. Whatever else this administration has done, whatever other mistakes it has made, this abandonment of long-standing American honor and decency in the military…
Last night, Chris Matthews greeted the new White House spokesman, Dan Bartlett, with a barrage of angry questions. Why did the Administration say that oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq? Why did the Administration say that the…
I’m developing sudden sympathy for Rumsfeld. When Richard Holbrooke comes out for his resignation, as he did on Hardball tonight, it means the conventional wisdom has completely come around to that position. Rummy must go. Holbrooke is the biggest wind-sniffer…
I fell for Lindsey Graham during the Impeachment hearings back in ’98 when he was still a Congressman. I used to talk to him after the hearings. The things I love about him are: he’s independent-minded, incredibly gifted politically, and…