As the Bush administration comes corkscrewing back to earth, like one of the early V-2 test shots that nearly obliterated its own launch team, the trickle of self-justifying memoirs from the perpetrators is widening into a flood. For sheer three-hanky mawkishness, nothing will probably be able to match the forthcoming cri de coeur of that noble martyr, Colin Powell. And Douglas … [Read More]

Um, one hardly knows how to respond to Scott’s blog, which touts me—in the spirit of jest, one hopes—as one of the Premier Attractions of the upcoming meeting of the John Randolph Club, in Washington, D.C. There will be many more learned and interesting speakers and special guests, not least among them Tom Fleming, editor of Chronicles magazine, among the most … [Read More]

Come one, come all!  Readers of Taki’s Top Drawer have a rare opportunity to meet the great man in the flesh this Friday and Saturday (September 21-22), at the 18th Annual Meeting of the John Randolph Club in Washington, D.C.  Sponsored by The Rockford Institute, the publisher of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, the JRC was first established as a … [Read More]

When H. G. Wells wrote his fantastic tale about a scientist who breeds human-animal hybrids with sadistic intent—created to destroy one another, plus any humans unfortunate enough to wash up on The Island of Dr. Moreau—that utopian socialist probably didn’t envision his own country becoming another island of lost souls.   Morally speaking, however, modern-day Britain increasingly resembles the futuristic dystopia … [Read More]

Uh oh, it looks like the neocons have settled on a presidential candidate, and it is (you guessed it) ... “They are officially known as Rudy Giuliani’s senior foreign policy advisory board, but they also could be dubbed something else: Neocons For Rudy.” That’s David Saltonstall, writing in the New York Daily News, a paper that covers a town where neocons … [Read More]

Here’s the video of Mad John McCain going ballistic over the anti-Petraeus Moveon.org ad in the New York Times: My favorite bit of snark on this comes from David Weigel over at Reason‘s blog: “If he had a record of angry self-aggrandizement or muzzling political speech this might be troubling.” [Read More]

Amid the cries of “Hail, Caesar!” coming from Congress in response to General Petraeus’s appointment as front man for George W. Bush, and the snarls of outrage over the Moveon.org “Petraeus-Betray us” ad in the New York Times, a reality check brought to you by Centcom chief Admiral William Fallon, as reported by Gareth Porter over at IPS: “In sharp contrast … [Read More]

I had to laugh, on the morning of the sixth anniversary of 9/11, when Fox News did a program that was supposed to “debunk those crazy 9/11 conspiracy myths once and for all,” as Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy put it. What followed was a “debunking” of the most absurd theories anyone has ever concocted, including one that claims the … [Read More]

On board S/Y Bushido— I simply can’t understand why so many Greek women resemble Scandinavians. Everywhere I look there are blondes, fat blondes, short blondes, hairy blondes, but nevertheless blondes. Could it be the carbon dioxide emissions that causes this phenomenon, or is there something in the water that turns dark-haired women into fair ones? I suppose we’ll never find out.  … [Read More]

                Reconsidering Immediate Withdrawal From Justin’s reply to my last blog and from the comments that followed, I gather that my concern about a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq is not widely shared by my fellow-paleos. And some of the critical comments leveled at my argument do contain fragments of truth, e.g., that the … [Read More]