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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Kennedy Video Surfaces
Earlier today, it came to light that someone who was at Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, and shot home video of the Kennedys as their car passed by, had put his footage away for over 40 years without making it public. If you haven’t already seen it, here it is. The video is in color and seems surprisingly fresh. The video is a loop that plays three or four »
The diplomatic imperative
This report by Glenn Kessler in the Washington Post, “For Rice, High-Stakes Shuttle Diplomacy,” suggests once again that diplomacy is not important enough to be left to the diplomats. Secretary Rice is shuttling back and forth between Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Abbas trying to bring about a “peace” arrangement between the two parties that will also include their Arab neighbors. This is a fool’s errand. Olmert »
Upping the Pressure
This BBC report, titled “US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed,” seems important. Based on “diplomatic sources,” the BBC says that our plans for an attack on Iran have already been laid: US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country’s military infrastructure, the BBC has learned. It is understood that any such attack – if ordered – would target Iranian air bases, »
Sen. McCain — a third perspective
Roger Simon at the Politico provides his take on Senator McCain’s weekend in Iowa. Simon found that McCain was starting to find his groove. Thus, his assessment is closer to Dan Balz’s than to that of his Politico colleague Jonathan Martin. Yet McCain confided to Simon that he’s fighting the feeling of being jaded. Said the veteran campaigner, “I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s fifth husband, who said on their »
John McCain and the Associated Press Editorialize
The Associated Press reports on Senator McCain’s charge, in South Carolina, that the Iraq war has been mismanaged for years: Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history. “We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement – that’s the kindest word I can give »
Smokey’s fire
The arrival of the singer/songwriter phenomenon in the 1960’s contributed to the death of Tin Pan Alley and the decline of popular songwriting as a profession. While some of the singer/songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon have consciously aspired to a place in the firmament of songwriters, the writerly workmanship even of the best singer/songwriters does not rise to the level set by the composers of the Great »
Sen. McCain — a different perspective
Dan Balz of the Washington Post has a different perspective on John McCain’s Iowa campaigning than the one I presented yesterday (per Jonathan Martin of the Politico). Balz finds that, while McCain seems “subdued, even dour” in Washington, he’s found some of his old “exuberance” on the campaign trail. I hope I didn’t overstate my impression of McCain in yesterday’s post. During the Des Moines event, he was hardly sullen. »
Congressman Johnson pleads for the troops
Over the weekend John posted the video of Rep. Sam Johnson speaking on the floor of the House in opposition to the Democrats’ frivolous opportunism here. Forum participants have been commenting on the video here. Rep. Johnson’s speech warrants our continued attention and consideration. »
Ignoble agitation explained
John discussed the current Arab and Muslim incitement over Israeli construction of a ramp leading to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in “Ignoble agitation.” (The ramp can be seen in the photo above.) Professor David Gelernter’s article in the current issue of the Weekly Standard is the most informative I have yet read on the subject of the incitement over the ramp: “Ramping up the violence.” Caroline Glick discussed the Temple Mount »
Mysteries
Saturday’s New York Times featured Scott Shane’s page-one article about Iran’s “mysterious” Quds Force. American intelligence agencies are scutinizing the Quds Force because of its apparent involvement in supplying sophisticated explosives to Iraqi insurgents. Quds operatives are in fact hard at work inside Iraq. The article’s thesis — that there is some doubt about the Iranian government’s responsibility for the activities of the Quds Force — hangs on this quote »
A footnote on Victoria Toensing’s column
A reader emails an important exception to Victoria Toensing’s excellent “Trial in errot” column in yesterday’s Washington Post, which I noted here: My first reservation is that VT didn’t focus more attention on Fitzgerald’s abuse of the Grand Jury process. Rove and Libby were required to testify before the grand jury FIVE TIMES, thanks to their boss’s requirement that his employees renounce their constitutional rights. Ordinary Department of Justice procedure »
Sen. McCain talks straight
Jonathan Martin at the Politico reports on John McCain’s campaigning in Iowa. According to Martin, McCain’s campaign events are dominated by questions about Iraq, and McCain’s somber answers are undermining his ability to project the ebullience, and perhaps to generate the enthusiasm, that marked his 2000 presidential bid. It happens that I just finished watching a replay of one of the McCain events Martin covered — a town hall style »
Sen. Levin dissembles
Democratic Senator Carl Levin, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on Fox News today for an interview with Chris Wallace. Most of the discussion was about Iraq, but at the end Wallace questioned Levin on the deal regarding North Korea’s nuclear program produced by the six party talks. Levin said that, while we need to know more about the deal, Bush appears to be on the right »
The Democrats’ Dilemma
Investors Business Daily has a hard-hitting editorial denouncing the Congressional Democrats and their “slow bleed” strategy. It begins: The party of John Murtha shamelessly seeks to defund and defeat U.S. troops on the battlefield and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Congress the terrorists wanted is doing their bidding. And that’s not the hard-hitting part! More important, IBD has a poll that highlights the danger the Democrats face: »
Yesterday’s Radio Show, First Hour
In the first hour of our show yesterday, we talked almost exclusively about the Democrats’ effort to “undermine”–their word, not ours–American foreign policy, and their “slow bleed” strategy to starve Gen. Petraeus and his troops of the resources they need to succeed, then reap political benefit from their failure. We’re not fans of the Democrats’ “slow bleed” strategy, to put it mildly, but we actually wound up defending the Democrats »
Position wanted
In an effort to help the fired Edwards campaign blogress land a new position, Iowahawk has generously posted Amanda Marcotte’s impressive r »
Trial in error
The Washington Post has turned over a lot of real estate on its opinion page to let Victoria Toensing make the case that Patrick Fitzgerald has overlooked a few guilty parties in the course of his media-inspired leak investigation. Ms. Toensing convenes an imaginary grand jury to charge out her “own personal bill of indictment,” beginning with Fitzgerald himself: THIS GRAND JURY CHARGES PATRICK J. FITZERALD with ignoring the fact »
