Elections Blog

The most well-known Christian (and anti-Syrian) politician has been assassinated:
Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon’s official news agency reported.
His fatal shooting will certainly heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where the leading Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah has threatened to [...]

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Could I resist blogging about a Christopher Hitchens piece in the Wall Street Journal focusing on John Kerry’s latest humiliation? No, I most certainly could not:
Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable “third rail” in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing [...]

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You really must read the whole thing in it’s entirety, so no excerpts for you!…

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Sometimes moral clarity is not fun, but as usual, Hitchens is right:
[Iran]‘s been gearing up already with a conflict with the European Union first, to whom it lied repeatedly about its enrichment and other activities.  It is lying internationally through the U.N. 
No, of course, the Russians won‘t support the U.S. call for sanctions.  No, [...]

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Contra Kevin Drum, with his ridiculous assertion that “this case is far from closed“, Christopher Hitchens argues it should have never been open:
…[N]ow we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like [...]

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