Industry, Not Enviromentalists, Killed the Light Bulb

With the help of Republicans.

JFK Was No Consvervative

Gene Healy rips apart a little right-wing myth-making.

Who Is the Isolationist?

Anyone who opposes the president.

Mean Old Man

IF John McCain had been elected president, we'd be at war with half the world by now.

Peter King: Terrorism Supporter

Mike Riggs points to one congressman's embrace of well known terrorists.

The Last Stalinist

Salon looks at David Brooks.

The Scapegoat

Matt Welch asks why it was more expedient to blame some amateurish filmmaker for the Benghazai debacle than to tell the truth.

Who Won the Iraq War?

Matt Schiavenza says it was China

The Costs of the Iraq War

American taxpayers will be paying for them for decades.

SNL Looks at the Hagel Hearings

A few laughs but pretty accurate.

A New Foreign Policy for America

Sen. Rand Paul outlines his vision.

The Death of Neoconservatism

Harper's interviews Bradley Thompson.

Neocon Welshes on Bet

David Henderson posts about how back in 2003, after the United States invaded Iraq, someone bet him that by September 2008 three Middle Eastern countries that were not then democracies would become Democratic by September 2008 because of the ripple effects of the U.S. "democratizing" Iraq.

It didn't work out that way, and when Henderson tried to collect, the woman not only denied having made the bet, she said no one could have foolish enough to make such a bet.

Neoconservatism: An Obituary

Bradley Thompson's new book has been getting surprisingly goog reviews.

Dick Cheney Wants to Do to Rand Paul What He and George Bush did to the GOP

The American Conservative has the latest on neo-con attakcs on Paul.

Neo-Cons Target Rand Paul

Matt Welch and Daniel McCarthy have the story.

Don't Bait the Neo-Cons

Andrew Sullivan writes:

While Iran erupts, National Review has many many posts blasting Janet Napolitano for an idiotic interview she gave today and calling for her resignation and yet more posts trying to use the Detroit terror attempt to attack Obama. There is one post about Iran this whole pivotal weekend, and it's by Jonah Goldberg, and it begins with the priceless words:

This should be getting more play.

Conservatism's current priorities: using any terror attack to hurt the president? Check. Watching freedom-fighters risk their lives for regime change in the most critical country for US foreign policy in the Middle East? Zzzzz. Imagine what Reagan would have thought. And weep.

Quote of the Day: Neoconservatism

This statement from its founding father, Irving Kirstol, pretty much sums up the entire philosophy:

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.

HT: Lew Rockwell

Substandard

Thomas Fleming looks at the sale of The Weekly Standard.

Misinformation from the Heritage Foundation

Benjamin Friedman looks at conservative claims that Barack Obama is cutting defense spending.