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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Bobby Short, RIP
Bobby Short was the joyous performer and New York institution who brought many of us to the music of Cole Porter, George Gershwin and other mainstays of the American songbook. He died on Monday of leukemia at age 80. The New York Post marks his passing in an editorial: “Bobby Short, 1924-2005.” OpinionJournal has posted a remembrance by musician Eric Felten: “A jazz aristocrat.” The Houston Chronicle observes his passing »
Soft power with a hard edge
The Daily Standard has posted a report by Thomas Joscelyn on the Club of Madrid’s Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security. Those in attendance ranged from George Soros to Hamid Karzai. The remarks of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright are prominently featured in Joscelyn’s report. Also in attendance were Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Amre Mousa, secretary-general of the League of Arab States. The summit sounds like a thorough-going anti-American festival. »
The light of the Sun
The New York Sun reports: “After all its denials, U.N. admits it paid for oil-for-food program aide’s legal bills.” The “aide” is of course Benon Sevan. Call it oil-for-attorney’s fees: Up until late last week, the U.N. said it had not paid any of Mr. Sevan’s legal fees. But yesterday, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told The New York Sun that the U.N. had been paying his legal bills up until »
Show us the source
At TKS Jim Geraghty has picked up the scent in the case of the Republican talking points memo: “The Rathergate memo, part deux?” That’s a strong scent that reaches all the way to Ankara. Mick Wright of Fishkite and Condipundit has created a useful timeline on the talking points memo. Factor this. The print copy of the talking points memo was leaked to a left-wing site (The Raw Story) that »
My kind of Congressman
Last week, in connection with an excellent column by Diana West, I wrote: In the excitement about events in [the Middle East], it is important to be realistic about the facts on the ground. Specifically, when it comes to the Palestinian Authority we should not confuse the small bit of progress that has occurred since Arafat’s death with real democracy. In this spirit, Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post argues »
My kind of Senator
George Allen asks his fellow Senate Republicans to call the “Democrats’ bluff” — that is, their threat to shut down the Senate if the Republicans end the unprecedented filibusters against President Bush’s judicial nominees. Allen believes that the Democrats would have a difficult time holding their caucus together on this issue. He also notes that a Senate in which the Democratic leadership won’t cooperate with Republicans would look suspiciously similar »
So: Where Did It Come From?
The memo that ABC News claims constitutes “GOP talking points” on the Schiavo case has turned up on the web, even though neither ABC nor the Washington Post, which has also reported on the memo and declared it to be genuine, has made it public. This web site, however, has posted the document, saying that it was leaked by “a source on Capitol Hill.” Here it is; click to enlarge: »
Dinner with Mr. Cheney, Part Two
I’d like to follow-up on Trunk’s post from yesterday about Tod Lindberg’s dinner with Vice President Cheney, and the possibility that Cheney will run for president in 2008. No Power Line regular will be surprised to read that Cheney is my number one choice. I first speculated on the possibility of his candidacy back in early October of last year. Then, I said that the key issues were (1) will »
Hard case, bad law
We have received criticism from leftists for not discussing the Terri Schiavo matter. In truth, we have discussed it. Rocket Man did so here, for example, a day before a left-wing blogger claimed not be have been able to find any mention of the matter on Power Line. I have not discussed the matter before because I don’t think I have any particular insight or expertise about it. I have »
Life in the balance
NRO has posted the Judge Whittemore’s decision denying injunctive relief in the Schiavo case. Thomas Sowell seems to me to have today’s best column on which to meditate on the case while hoping for the intervention of a higher authority: “Cruel and unusual.” See also the thoughts of Hugh Hewitt on the Schiavo case and the murders here in Minnesota yesterday. »
Show us the memo
We have received the following message from a reader regarding the purported talking points memo distributed to Republican senators that was reported yesterday by the Washington Post and ABC: I worked on the Hill for some time and now work for the State Department. The SOP for moving memos around is that you have a cover sheet that has a “distribution” list on it. Also on the cover sheet is »
Don’t miss these
Among the columns I meant to flag yesterday are Val McQueen’s excellent profile of the execrable Ken Livingstone for TCS: “Beyond the fringe.” I wish I’d thought of that heading in connection with our mugging by St. Paul’s own Tamara Baker. Also not to be missed is the incredible piece of reporting by Byron York posted at NRO: “Right on, MoveOn!” Quotations are the heart of this column, as they »
Dinner with Mr. Cheney
Given the number of highly responsible positions he has held dating back to chief of staff for Gerald Ford in 1975, it seems almost impossible that Vice President Cheney would only be 68 in 2008. Indeed, according to his White House biography, Vice President Cheney’s “career in public service began in 1969 when he joined the Nixon Administration, serving in a number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, »
The uses of British justice
Thomas Lipscomb has alerted us to a story we have not previously heard of, involving the use of the British courts by a Saudi sheik to pursue a defamation lawsuit against an American writer for allegations made in a book published exclusively in the United States. The American writer has allowed a default judgment to be entered against her in the British courts. Lipscomb’s article appears in Editor & Publisher, »
The party that cries wolf
President Bush has infuriated liberal Democrats and other leftists by nominating John Bolton as ambassaor to the United Nations and Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. The opposition to Bolton’s nomination is rational. Bolton’s statements about the U.N. are quite controversial, and therefore it makes sense that his nomination is also controversial. Should our representative to the U.N. be someone who takes such a dim view of that »
Charles Johnson to Strib: Apologize
Tomorrow’s Minneapolis Star Tribune letters to the editor are led by Charles Johnson’s response to the column by one Tamara Baker that the Strib ran on Saturday. The Star Tribune publishes Charles’s letter under the heading “Outrageous lie”: In a March 19 counterpoint (“Article on blogs should have said more on political divide”), Tamara Baker made a bald-faced lie: “[Eric] Black’s article also didn’t mention “Little Green Footballs,” a right-wing »
No Room For Extremists!
Drudge reports that Michele Zipp, managing editor of Playgirl Magazine, has lost her job after coming out as a Republican. Thank goodness that could never happen in the law business! »
