Pronouncing Foreign Names
Jonathan Kolieb is upset that Americans don't pronounce foreign names in the other country's mother tongue. I was flipping through the cable news channels the other night, and there were several segments on developments in Iraq. I found myself getting irritated, then angry: Why, five years after occupying a country, do we still not know how to pronounce its name? [...] Language and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 19, 2008 08:17
Jerome Corsi and the Coarsening of American Politics
Jon Henke argues that the embrace, by both sides, of unsavory characters under the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend has "poisoned both the Left and the Right in American politics." Accordingly, he takes on one of his own: The continued tolerance and prominence of Jerome Corsi - his books, columns and appearances - is just embarrassing. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 16, 2008 10:19
Comic Book Foreign Policy (or the Batman Theory of Foreign Policy)
Readers may be familiar with the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics (short version: the US can do whatever it wants if it just has even willpower). Now, it appears we can add another member of the Justice League to our understanding of foreign policy. On Friday, author Andrew Klavan had a piece in the WSJ comparing Batman ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 27, 2008 17:47
Whither Conservative Journalists
Stacy McCain takes up where Jonathan Martin left off, first explaining why it's so hard to break in to the paid punditry racket and then focusing on why it's hard to get conservatives on the just-the-facts reportorial side of the paper: The newspaper business is one of the lowest-paying professions in America. Most years, my brother who's a semi-truck driver in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 25, 2008 14:57
Conservatives for Obama II
When I saw the headline "Hunter: This conservative activist is backing Obama" on memeorandum yesterday, I was intrigued. Duncan Hunter, arguably the most conservative of the 2008 Republican presidential aspirants was endorsing a liberal Democrat?! When it turned out the "Hunter" in question was Larry Hunter, a fellow of whom I'd never previously heard, my interest waned. After all, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 18, 2008 09:27
Supreme Court as a Voting Issue
Dahlia Lithwick takes to the pages of FireDogLake to explain why, in her view, liberals are much less excited about the Supreme Court than conservatives: My own impression, having covered the past two presidential elections is that most liberals simply don’t vote with the composition of the Supreme Court in mind at all, or that it ranks somewhere in their top ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 7, 2008 16:00
Conservative Bloggers Silent On Torture?
Shaun Mullen wonders "Why Are Right-of-Center Bloggers So Silent On Torture?" He searched high and low and could find no right-of-center bloggers who made any mention at all, for example, of yesterday's NYT story "China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo." I'd note that Andrew Sullivan wrote roughly 600 posts on the subject yesterday, including this one, which pretty well covered our bases. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 3, 2008 11:28
Activist Judges Overturn Democratic Process Again
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has overturned the D.C. handgun ban, thwarting the democratic process.The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the District of Columbia cannot ban a citizen from keeping a handgun at home, throwing out one of the nation's strictest gun control laws. The Supreme Court has overturned Washington, D.C.'s strict gun ban.The 5-4 decision marks first ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 26, 2008 10:34
Obama Has Huge Lead in Another Poll
Barack Obama has a 12-point lead in the latest Bloomberg/LAT poll, giving those of us who thought the 15-point lead in last week's Newsweek poll was an outlier some pause. In a two-man race between the major-party candidates, registered voters chose Obama over McCain by 49% to 37% in the national poll, conducted Thursday through Monday. On a four-man ballot that ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 25, 2008 07:27
McCain Veepstakes: A Woman?
David Paul Kuhn argues that John McCain should strongly consider choosing a woman as his vice presidential running mate in order to woo angry Hillary Clinton supporters. That premise strikes me as absurd, in that no Republican woman is going to be a suitable substitute for Clinton in the minds of her supporters. Still, reaching out to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 23, 2008 09:04
