The main reason the CIA no longer recruits agents from top-ranked schools is because it can’t. “The men and women who teach today’s college students view the CIA with suspicion, if not disdain,” as Beinart put it. The formulation is, in fact, too mild. The left hates the CIA and regards it as an enemy [...]
Luck Is Not A Strategy
May 10, 2010 By 14 Comments
America’s safety depends on the proposition that Islamic terrorists will prove more incompetent than the Obama administration.
Obama-style Socialism
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism is now in paperback.
Jonah Goldberg has written an important article in Commentary on what he calls the “neo-socialism” of the Obama administration. I like this label. It is both accurate and more palatable than the term “neo-communism” which I have applied to the hard left. But given the twenty-year political partnership [...]
Rasmussen: 2 out of 3 Believe Tax Cuts Are Better for Job Creation
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sure to raise some Keynesian hackles, a new poll released today by Rasmussen Reports demonstrates that 66%, or 2 out of 3 American voters, believe that tax cuts are better for job creation. This number has increased notably since January when 59% of voters reported the same view. In contrast, an abysmal 18%, or less [...]
The Anti-Israel Lobby
April 23, 2010 By 78 Comments
J-Street can no longer claim to support the Jewish state.
The Left’s Politics of Paranoia
April 23, 2010 By 40 Comments
The liberal media and its allies see right-wing extremists everywhere.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
April 15, 2010 By 27 Comments
As a former Master of the Dominicans, I’ve decided the Church
is stuck with me, whatever happens.
Vegan Joaquin Phoenix to Save Rabbit-Eating Snakes
April 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mirror, mirror, on the wall who in the land is silliest of all?
Exhibit one: In Year of the Dog we travel with two hysterical vegans, Peggy (Molly Shannon) and Newt (Peter Sarsgaard). They both have issues. And, in one memorable scene, Peggy returns to Newt’s house to pick up her dog. Just one slight problem [...]
