U of M law student and blogger Ivan Ludmer has an interesting piece on the University’s decision to hire former Office of Legal Counsel attorney Robert Delahunty. Prof. Delahunty was one of the authors of a controversial memo that stated that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to captured al-Qaeda prisoners. In the spirit of [...]
Jonah Goldberg excerpts from an article advocating that the Democrats abandon the South and concentrate their fortunes elsewhere. The article posits: Schaller builds this conclusion on one of the most impressive papers in recent political science, “Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South,” by Nicholas Valentino and David [...]
It looks like the Democrats have already broken one of their major campaign pledges. Remember how the Democrats were going to implement all of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission? Now it appears that they have no interest in doing so. The Democrats have rejected the recommendation that the Congressional oversight of intelligence be overhauled. [...]
Captain Ed notes that the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso has said that Japan can go nuclear at any time should the need arise. It’s an open secret that Japan has a de facto nuclear capability. They have all the technology needed to create a working nuclear weapon, and may have some warheads that simply [...]
Victor Davis Hanson has a brilliant and important essay on what he sees as a loss of confidence in the values of the Enlightenment. As he puts it: But our newest foes of Reason are not the enraged Athenian democrats who tried and executed Socrates. And they are not the Christian zealots of the medieval [...]
Colin Powell is now stating that Iraq is in the midst of a “civil war”. Technically, it isn’t since there aren’t two sides which hold territory involved in the fighting. However, that’s a mere technicality. The government of Prime Minister al-Maliki has been unable to control the sectarian violence in Iraq, and the results have [...]
Another secret Iraq memo has leaked (big surprise), this time from NSA Stephen Hadley. The memo argues that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is failing to lead in Iraq. That conclusions is almost certainly accurate: But in a classified November 8 memo following his October 30 trip to Baghdad, Hadley expressed serious doubts about whether [...]