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So this week’s New York Times article by Brookings Institute experts arguing that we may yet be able to win the war has sent a tidal wave of hope through the pro-war camp and a chill down the backs of the Democratic Party defeatist. ~Tony Blankley A tidal wave? Good grief, these people are desperate! [...]
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Caplan divides them into three categories: antimarket bias, antiforeign bias, make-work bias and pessimistic bias. Antimarket bias describes people feeling that trade and profit are zero-sum games, that one person’s gain is another person’s loss. They haven’t learned that free exchange is win-win and that in a free market, profit comes from cost-cutting innovation. Antiforeign [...]
Look: Ross is a smart guy [bold mine-DL]. He knows perfectly well that modern liberals have no serious connection to eugenics advocates of the past. He knows perfectly well that abortion supporters aren’t motivated by eugenicist theories. He’s not using the word out of a dedication to scientific precision. Rather, he and his fellow conservatives [...]
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Shorter Michael Gerson: we need to bribe other governments in order to fight corruption.
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According to John Savage, I have supposedly argued this: “Progressives” who support abortion on demand cannot logically argue against eugenics, such as was carried out by pre-WWII progressives who supported forced sterilization for the sake of reducing the numbers of “feebleminded” people. This is what I actually said: Every time someone on the left endorses [...]
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This bipartisan consensus is all the more striking because it is increasingly out of step with the majority of the American people. A poll conducted by the Washington think tank Third Way in March found that respondents favored protecting the security of the United States and its allies over promoting freedom and democracy in the [...]
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“I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman,” quipped Romney while campaigning in New Hampshire. ~The Evening Bulletin Well, that works out nicely, since I think the presidency ought to be held to a higher level than allowing it to be sought by [...]
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While Kevin Drum continues to embarrass himself, Ross has another good post on one particular angle of the debate over the designation “progressive.” The “meme” of progressives as supporters of eugenics and sterilisation comes from the history of early 20th century progressivism. (Or you can try the short version: just watch Gattaca and see whose politics [...]
I agree with Djerejian–any description of the confrontation between the U.S. and Iran as a second Cold War is just ridiculous. Are we involved in a similar “cold war” with Venezuela? Maybe we should ask that master strategist, Rick Santorum! Yeah. To label every standoff between Washington and a regional power as a “new Cold War” is at once [...]
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Hey, Fred, Where’s The Cattle? Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in June, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to Republican sources. ~The Politico Via Jason Zengerle The funniest part of the article comes a [...]
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