Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
This afternoon my wife and I finally visited the Amish Market in Burtonsville, MD. (Obviously, they have no web page to link to, although they do have credit card readers these days.) We witnessed a community that prefers to live apart, retains its original language, adheres to a very strict religion, and [...]

By Thoreau
I’m sure everybody here has heard that two car bombs were found on Friday in a place where new British PM Gordon Brown was to be, and that today a burning car was crashed into an airport in Scotland. Muslim extremists are apparently the culprits (although one should avoid making hasty assumptions on [...]

Given that
there is no evidence that [Jonah Goldberg] has actually written anything other than the subtitle — again and again and again, like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. And now he is even rewriting that. The original subtitle, “The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton,” had to be changed, probably because the publisher worried [...]

By Mona
Well, so claims Stalinist/Maoist, Reagan DoJ member Bruce Fein (bio) at Slate, who has previously babbled this Communist drivel.
(Via several commenters at Greenwald’s.)

Ah, moving quickly and quietly down the corridor of American politics:
“We’re in the formative stages of creating a new group that will give voice and hope to conservatives everywhere who believe in peace through strength and limited government,” Blakeman said. “We expect to have more to announce sometime down the road.”
I believe in weight loss [...]

The other day in comments I advanced several reasons why the US didn’t need to stay in Iraq to prevent a regional war, one of the rote justifications for maintaining the famous “residual force.” They boiled down to, “What? You think the local rulers want to shove their hands in the disposal just as we [...]

By Mona
Jonah Goldberg writes a book titled Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods; this would be the cover:

Tom Palmer says:

The original subtitle was “The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton.” That one was unhinged enough, but the new title is simply deranged.

Palmer is especially convinced that Whole [...]

Just in case there’s any doubt out there, I thought I’d mention that I’m totally willing to blog full-time for a magazine in exchange for a middle-class wage. Yes, even in the daytime if I was making day-job money. I ust don’t blog from work today as a matter of policy – it’s not what [...]

Thoreau, I think Pope Ben should let Blair convert to Catholicism after Tony passes an exam on Catholic Just War Theory.

By Thoreau
You get the drill. The Senate has subpoenaed records relating to the illegal wiretaps that that Stasi NSA conducted. If they hand the records over, we’ll probably have incontrovertible proof of violations of FISA and grounds for impeachment. If they don’t hand it over, the matter will go to court. [...]