The boundless arrogance of the Lobby is a sight to see, but we don’t really get to view it in its full glory—except when they travel to Israel, where they can and do speak rather more frankly, as the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm ...
From today‘s Financial Times: “Speaking after the meeting of Group of Seven finance leaders, Peer Steinbrück, German finance minister, said the G7 now feared that write-offs of losses on securities linked to US subprime mortgages could reach $400bn. “This is sharply higher ...
In today’s financial news: “More than $6.7 trillion has been wiped from world stock markets since the beginning of the year amid concern that the U.S. slowdown would spread and financial institutions would report more losses. The rout, which started in August when credit markets ...
They’re already starting on John McCain, and not a moment too soon: <object width=“425” height=“373”><param name=“movie” value=“http://www.youtube.com/v/3gwqEneBKUs&rel=1&border=1”> <embed ...
When Andrew Sullivan jumped on the Ron Paul bandwagon, I didn’t mind all that much. After all, the more the merrier. It was all—supposedly—part of his sudden conversion to antiwar, anti-interventionist common sense, and he was sorry, sorry, sorrrrrry that he’d advocated ...
John Derbyshire wishes “Dr. Paul had gone deeper into” what he calls “the National Question,” and remarks: “It is true that he is a latecomer to the issue, having passed through orthodox libertarianism, in which there are no National Questions because nations ...
Poor little Jamie Kirchick: it can’t be easy being a known lickspittle and liar. This Norman Podhoretz-wannabe is stamping his foot and having a real hissy fit over The American Conservative‘s endorsement of Ron Paul for President. Don’t they know that “respectable ...
Appropos my recent Antiwar.com column on John McCain’s foreign policy views, and especially this piece in the current issue of The American Conservative, check out this Bizarro McCain: <object width=“425” height=“355”><param name=“movie” ...
Yes, there is dissent over at National Review, a few burning embers of the original faith are still smoldering, notably the sparks given off by John Derbyshire, and, also, another Brit, Andrew Stuttaford—here‘s the latter on the heresy of Zalmay Khalizad, US ambassador to the United ...
Paleocon and Ron Paul supporter John Derbyshire on the likely outcome of the November election: "Conservatives " to the ...
