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Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 13, 2011 5 Comments
Kathleen Maddow referred to “nullification” as something only “racist neo-Confederates” would support. Tom Woods makes an apt criticism of this insipid characterization over at Lew Rockwell: Whatever happened to “small is beautiful,” Rachel? Remember that progressive slogan (along with “question authority,” yet another such slogan...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 10, 2011 14 Comments
Kathleen Vanity Fair, to which I begrudgingly subscribe (anything that keeps Hitchens on a payroll can’t be that bad, right?), brought my blood to a boil this morning when I read their latest article on ‘inequality.’ Here’s the gist: “Americans have been watching protests against...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on April 02, 2011 18 Comments
Kathleen City Journal‘s Claire Berlinski has written a great article about the disinterest around Pavel Stroilov’s 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents dating from the close of the Cold War. journalists [have] initially shown interest in the documents, only to [say] later that their editors...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2011 3 Comments
The Obama administration declined to use military force in Libya until obtaining the authorization of the U.N. Security Council.  Put aside for now whether such authorization was necessary and whether U.S. Congressional authorization also was needed. The U.S. and coalition offensive military action clearly exceeds the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 07, 2011 4 Comments
Christopher Hitchens has really been phenomenal in the past few weeks. In his Vanity Fair April article, he does not disappoint. He mulls over all the revolutions he has seen, and concludes that Egypt is not as poignant as it seems: Neither in exile nor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 9 Comments
This is the first in a series GUEST POSTS by Matthew Knee, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University specializing in campaigns and elections, ethnic voting patterns, public opinion, and quantitative and experimental approaches to political science. ____________________ Analyzing polls with only what polling companies release is...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 25, 2011 7 Comments
K. McCaffrey — Since the 1980s, when one third of their population fell below the poverty line, the nation of Ireland has seen tremendous growth. This is a testament to the glory of a nation of people who had been purged of autonomy for hundreds...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 15, 2011 11 Comments
From ABC News (of all places!): As the 2012 presidential campaign kicks into gear, President Obama’s White House media operation is demonstrating an unprecedented ability to broadcast its message through social media and the Internet, at times doing an end-run around the traditional press. […]...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments
… “You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah” It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2011 2 Comments
I have kept away from writing about “news” generated from WikiLeaks disclosure of stolen U.S. diplomatic cables.  One of the main problems with using stolen diplomatic cables is that one is unlikely to get the full story in a single cable, leaving the ground clear...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2011 10 Comments
Via The Telegraph: A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. The unnamed woman, who is thought to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 04, 2011 7 Comments
The lame duck rush to ratify the New START Treaty is becoming an example of fools rushing in. One of the sticking points for Republicans opposed to the Treaty (13 Republicans voted in favor of the Treaty) was that the Preamble language seemed to link...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2010 8 Comments
That is a name I had not heard in decades. When I studied in the Soviet Union many of the East European students loved the group Boney M and were surprised that none of the Americans in our group had heard of it.  To them,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 24, 2010 2 Comments
Remember how important it was to pass New START during the lame duck session, rather than waiting until January?  We were told that anything less would have angered the Russians and, in Harry Reid’s words, put nukes in the hands of terrorists.  Any attempt to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2010 0 Comments
The lame duck session has seen Harry Reid at his best or worst, depending upon your perspective. Reid held back a slew of substantial legislation to the last two weeks in order to try to ram through measures which, in a rational world, would have...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 15, 2010 5 Comments
Ann Heller sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about her recent well-received biography of Ayn Rand. I think Heller “gets it”, she “[thinks] the core of [Rand’s] appeal is her deep love of freedom … old fashioned American values, hard work, application of your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 02, 2010 6 Comments
When the story broke last June about the arrest of 10 Russian sleeper agents, none of whom seemed to be in a position to do any real damage, many people laughed at the supposed ineptitude of the Russian secret services, and joked about femme fatale Anna Chapman....
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