Unqualified Offerings

I was glad Bork lost at the time. Admittedly, I was a partisan Democrat back then. And admittedly he was the object of a partisan witch hunt. But he’s gone to considerable effort to keep me glad they fitted him for the dunking stool. OpinionJournal’s “Best [Neocon-Approved Items] of the Web,” offers the following bit [...]

I have a cold. (Boo!) So I’m taking NyQuil. (Yay!) Dennis Leary’s famous NyQuil rant is on this page. You just have to hit Page Down a couple of times.

Never confuse politics with “current events.”

A chick who would surely blanch at dissing her husband to the media, writer Wendy McElroy, edits the website ifeminists.com. I’m a longtime fan of McElroy, having discovered her writing in the pages of Liberty (Motto: Print Magazines Don’t Need Dynamic Websites) and enjoyed her book, XXX.

The Post Style section has a chin-puller by Paul Farhi about “The Great Worry Divide.” Women are more emotional in the face of the recent terror attacks, more prone to worry and depression, men more analytical, distanced; if they have an emotion, it is anger rather than sadness. As is usual in such pieces, actual [...]

This from his regular venue in the Chicago Tribune:
Take a people tired of being tyrannized, add an opposition force determined to overthrow the government, blend with a handful of B-52s, bake for a few weeks, and there you have it–victory. The United States used this recipe with startling results in Afghanistan, and a cadre of [...]

Steve Chapman’s article today in Slate makes a compelling case against the arguments of the National Greatness crowd for attacking Iraq. To the argument that Saddam is a psycho and he might do anything, anything – which is to say, that deterrence wouldn’t work – Chapman points out that deterrence has worked on Saddam:
When he [...]

Admiral R. James Woolsey writes in yesterday’s post against the longstanding policy of propping up autocratic regimes in the Arab world:
This ought to be enough to make us call into question some of the European-generated “truths” about another region, the Mideast, that have generally guided our conduct there for the past 80 years: that Arabs [...]

from eerily-prescient Unqualified Offering items! Opinion Journal’s “Best [Neocon Approved Items] of the Web” links to this NYT piece reporting that “Saudis Balk at U.S. Request to Freeze Bank Accounts.” Unqualified Offerings first reported this as pre-news on October 31st, the day the USA Today reported that the Saudis would “freeze terrorist assets.” Surely investors [...]

“Ashcroft has been nothing but a disaster as AG on issues cutting across the ideological spectrum” and she’s right. It is small consolation that he follows one of the worst attorney generals of all time. It’s small consolation that most attorney generals, as George Will would say, suck ass. Ed Meese, John Mitchell, Bobby Kennedy. [...]