Month: July 2006

Peter Beinart has an editorial today in the Washington Post. It’s about the Democrats’ recent criticisms of Bush’s foreign policy and it’s entitled Pander and Run. I rarely agree with Peter Beinart, who...

I happened upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 2002 Harvard Commencement speech this morning. It makes for interesting reading. I think of 2002 as the uphappiest year. It was the year this country lost its mind. It was the year...

In a comment upon BooMan’s diary regarding the media coverage of the Lieberman-Lamont battle (Wanker of the Day), supersoling asked the magic question: “I understand the need to get the Senate back, but damn, what...

This diary will not be a comfortable one to read around these parts, but it is really quite a simple work!  It was prompted in light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the arguments around here about the hoped for...

Israel defends its destruction of Lebanon with reference to UN Security Council Resolution 1391, calling on Lebanon to seize control of its entire territory. In this context it is interesting to consider Israel’s own...