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The idea is that India and the United States are natural allies. But some are skeptical that India is ready to assume the mantle of responsible world power. Closer ties with an ever more authoritarian Russia don’t bode well. ~Michael Goldfarb I don’t assume India and America are “natural” allies, since I don’t think any [...]
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I’m hearing you guys [House GOP] don’t care what people think. That’s what I’m hearing, and that’s what got us the minority, and that’s what’ll keep us there, but I hope you’ll come back and talk with me again. ~Hugh Hewitt Er, well, actually it was the Iraq war that put Republicans in the minority, as [...]
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Two senators _ a Republican and a Democrat _ leading separate efforts to put Congress on record against President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq joined forces Wednesday, agreeing on a nonbinding resolution that would oppose the plan and potentially embarrass the White House. Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., had been sponsoring competing [...]
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The Old Right is back, and in Hagel it has, perhaps, found a formidable and eminently electable candidate. ~Justin Raimondo Put a lot of emphasis on that perhaps. First, there are some definitional problems: Hagel is not an antiwar Republican. How do I know? Because he never says he is against the war. There’s a [...]
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He has been trying to build his campaign on the idea of protecting human life from womb to death, and across the globe. That agenda cannot advance by retreating from the field on which the most pivotal of the current battles is being waged. Perhaps Senator Brownback will also recognize that in the days ahead [...]
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Okay, I am not on hiatus yet, and Sullivan offers such an easy, fun target: It was much more significant in the 2006 elections than the white evangelical vote. In 2006, a full 36 percent of self-described libertarians voted Democrat – easily the biggest share of that vote that the Dems have had in recent [...]
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Ross and Reihan have been selfishly guarding their well-kept secrets and hoarding their witty insights for a month now (on the lame pretexts of “having work to do” and “employment”), so it will soon be time for them to come back and share the wealth. Sen. Webb would approve. This will be good news for [...]
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Poor Mitt just can’t buy a break these days. Now he’s being hit for a veto of funding that would have gone to reimbursing nursing homes so that they could provide kosher meals to elderly Jews on Medicaid: Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom told The Politico that the governor vetoed the legislation to cut spending. “The state was [...]
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The author pretends to argue that hostility to the existence of Israel as a Jewish state is the defining characteristic of the “new” anti-semitism, which is fairly ridiculous on its own terms, but as you read through the examples that’s clearly not what he’s saying. Rather, his view is that some people make what he [...]
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You’d have to be pretty thick not to realize that del Toro intends the fairyland narrative — heavy with arbitrary commands, underground abattoirs, and intimations of blood sacrifice — as a commentary on the politics at work in the real-world storyline, and this realization has sent many critics into raptures over the film’s supposed political [...]