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Our New Civil Masters 4 Feb 2009 | 03:38 am

Once they were called civil servants, but after the barrage of taxpayer-funded bailouts, they may be more properly seen as “civil masters.” David Brooks, writing today in the New York Times, aptly de...

Juan Cole competes for Best Blogger 8 Jan 2009 | 05:34 am

Yes, its true, Juan Cole wants to win 2008 Weblog Awards competition–and he is currently in the lead. Best of luck to him. Martin Kramer has a different take. He cites simple factual problems that un...

Leon Panetta for CIA? 6 Jan 2009 | 09:22 am

Leon Panetta, a former congressman with no intelligence experience, has been tapped to run the CIA in the Obama Administration. It is hard to know what is worse: the rampant Washington insiderdom or ...

Its NOT the “third-hand smoke” that stinks 6 Jan 2009 | 09:07 am

The New York Times dropped a new term into our language–”third-hand smoke”–and another  large dollop of politicized science. Second-hand smoke is exhaled by smokers. Third-hard smoke is the microscop...

Bail Out Newspapers? 2 Jan 2009 | 06:57 pm

Banks, airlines, auto makers–everyone wants a bail out these days. Now one Connecticut lawmaker wants to add newspapers to the list. Frank Nicastro, who represents the state’s 79th Assembly district...

Is Caroline Kennedy Qualified? What about Palin? 30 Dec 2008 | 06:25 am

Peter Roff, a conservative writing in U.S. News and World Report, thinks that Caroline Kennedy, a socialite who has been so concerned with New York’s political future that she has voted in almost 40% ...

Why do they always look for sadness on Christmas? 26 Dec 2008 | 04:21 pm

After tonight’s showing of “Casablanca” and just before the airing of “The Big Sleep,” Turner Movie Classics presented a short memorial to the famous and the notable. By itself, not so notable. At th...

New Evidence: Obama, Blago and the memory hole 15 Dec 2008 | 06:10 am

Why does any evidence linking President-Elect Obama’s connection to the Senate seat-selling scam always seem to vanish? Many in the media are taking Obama’s denials at face value. He is a bona fide h...

Other Wars on Terror 18 Nov 2008 | 01:22 pm

American media can be amazingly myopic. Since the September 11 attacks, the media has pretended that the U.S. is the only democracy that had to ask itself fundamental questions about fighting terroris...