Monthly Archives: January 2006

Disengagement, American-style?

Meghan Clyne previews Congressional moves to disengage the United States from Hamastan: “Congress racing to isolate a Hamas regime.” In addition to cutting off direct American funding of the Palestinian Authority, the anticipated legislation that is the subject of the article would also provide for the “audit all committees, offices, and commissions focused on the Palestinian agenda at the United Nations and recommend for their elimination[.]” And this: “[The] bill »

Disengagement, American-style?

Meghan Clyne previews Congressional moves to disengage the United States from Hamastan: “Congress racing to isolate a Hamas regime.” In addition to cutting off direct American funding of the Palestinian Authority, the anticipated legislation that is the subject of the article would also provide for the “audit all committees, offices, and commissions focused on the Palestinian agenda at the United Nations and recommend for their elimination[.]” And this: “[The] bill »

The judgment of Paris

Roger Kimball identifies a looming threat to the continued excellence of Wabash College: “Will Wabash capitulate?” UPDATE: Good news: “The Board of Trustees of Wabash College on Saturday unanimously elected Dr. Patrick E. White as the 15th president of the private liberal arts college for men.” (Thanks to readers Thomas Ryan and Kenneth Harrell.) »

The judgment of Paris

Roger Kimball identifies a looming threat to the continued excellence of Wabash College: “Will Wabash capitulate?” UPDATE: Good news: “The Board of Trustees of Wabash College on Saturday unanimously elected Dr. Patrick E. White as the 15th president of the private liberal arts college for men.” (Thanks to readers Thomas Ryan and Kenneth Harrell.) »

All jihad all the time

Dr. Andrew Bostom took time from teaching medicine to produce an important anthology on The Legacy of Jihad. Today FrontPage carries a good interview of Dr. Bostom by FrontPage editor Jamie Glazsov on the subject of Dr. Bostom’s book. Coincidentally, the Daily Standard has posted Dean Barnett’s column on Dr. Bostom’s book: “All jihad all the time.” »

All jihad all the time

Dr. Andrew Bostom took time from teaching medicine to produce an important anthology on The Legacy of Jihad. Today FrontPage carries a good interview of Dr. Bostom by FrontPage editor Jamie Glazsov on the subject of Dr. Bostom’s book. Coincidentally, the Daily Standard has posted Dean Barnett’s column on Dr. Bostom’s book: “All jihad all the time.” »

The way we were

With a lighter touch than we have brought to them, Michael Barone touches on many of the themes that have preoccupied John, Paul and me here over the past month: “Stuck in the ’70s.” Barone characterizes the seventies as a “slum of a decade, which gave us the worst popular music, the ugliest hairstyles and clothes, and the most disastrous public policies of the 20th century.” Here’s Barone’s quick tour »

The way we were

With a lighter touch than we have brought to them, Michael Barone touches on many of the themes that have preoccupied John, Paul and me here over the past month: “Stuck in the ’70s.” Barone characterizes the seventies as a “slum of a decade, which gave us the worst popular music, the ugliest hairstyles and clothes, and the most disastrous public policies of the 20th century.” Here’s Barone’s quick tour »

When pragmatism is in the eye of the beholder

Peter Berkowitz in the Weekly Standard presents his analysis of the situation in Israel following the exit of Sharon and the victory of Hamas. Berkowitz contends that Sharon’s successor as leader of the new Kadima party, Ehud Olmert, will very likely achieve victory over his Likud and Labor opponents because he is in tune with the new centrist consensus that now prevails among at least a plurality of Israelis. I »

When pragmatism is in the eye of the beholder

Peter Berkowitz in the Weekly Standard presents his analysis of the situation in Israel following the exit of Sharon and the victory of Hamas. Berkowitz contends that Sharon’s successor as leader of the new Kadima party, Ehud Olmert, will very likely achieve victory over his Likud and Labor opponents because he is in tune with the new centrist consensus that now prevails among at least a plurality of Israelis. I »

She has returned

After a hack attack, outage and site reconstruction, the indomitable Lucianne has returned to her station, with her sense of humor intact. »

She has returned

After a hack attack, outage and site reconstruction, the indomitable Lucianne has returned to her station, with her sense of humor intact. »

Spies and Lying Editorialists

Today the New York Times denounced the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program in its usual hyperventilating style, in an editorial titled “Spies, Lies and Wiretaps”. What was most striking to me about the Times’ editorial, however, was that the paper doesn’t actually want the Bush administration to stop the NSA’s international surveillance. On the contrary: the Times’ editorialists view the suggestion that the Democrats are opposed to such surveillance as libelous: »

Spies and Lying Editorialists

Today the New York Times denounced the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program in its usual hyperventilating style, in an editorial titled “Spies, Lies and Wiretaps”. What was most striking to me about the Times’ editorial, however, was that the paper doesn’t actually want the Bush administration to stop the NSA’s international surveillance. On the contrary: the Times’ editorialists view the suggestion that the Democrats are opposed to such surveillance as libelous: »

Tripping up on junk

I believe it started with a January 20 New York Times editorial observer column by Dorothy Samuels: “Tripping up on trips: Judges love junkets as much as Tom Delay does.” Nightline appears to have picked up the story idea from the Times and assigned it to Brian Ross for a January 23 broadcast: “Supreme ethics problem?” Nightline investigated the bombshell question: “What was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doing on »

Tripping up on junk

I believe it started with a January 20 New York Times editorial observer column by Dorothy Samuels: “Tripping up on trips: Judges love junkets as much as Tom Delay does.” Nightline appears to have picked up the story idea from the Times and assigned it to Brian Ross for a January 23 broadcast: “Supreme ethics problem?” Nightline investigated the bombshell question: “What was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doing on »

Living history

In the New York Sun week before last, Meghan Clyne covered the failure of the Holocaust Museum to touch on the issue of Arab/Islamist anti-Semitism: “U.S. Holocaust Museum comes under fire for failing to address Arab anti-Semitism.” The “fire” referred to in the article’s headline comes from Carol Greenwald and her Holocaust Museum Watch. Clyne reports: Ms. Greenwald, a financial-investment analyst who sits on the boards of several pro-Israel organizations, »