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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Bush Admits He was Unprepared …Posted by Christopher Manion at December 1, 2008 12:36 PMBut he started the war anyway. And, like his neocon enablers, he’s still equivocating, and still blaming everybody else in a depressingly incoherent with Charlie Gibson. Examples: He went to war because of bad intelligence, but now tells Gibson that he’s not sure he would have if the intel had been...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Support The Military(-Media-Government-Defense-Industry Complex)Posted by Christopher Manion at November 30, 2008 09:12 AMNow we know how thoroughly cynical the Bush Administration has tried to debauch the military and make it a money machine.Thanks to the NYT for this of the whores of war (perhaps they're feeling a little guilty for buying into the war fever for years).McCaffrey's justification...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Congress CrittersPosted by Christopher Manion at November 23, 2008 09:26 AMIn considering the , I was reminded of something Michael Reagan said a couple of weeks ago when he was in DC:"If my dad were in the White House, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd wouldn't be chairing committees, they'd be dodging federal prosecutors."
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Allan Carlson concludes that "whenever natural family values went up against the war in Iraq, the manpower needs of the Pentagon, corporate interests, or even political expediency, there was no contest: families were ignored," quoted here by Christopher Manion — Leading Pro-Family Advocate Now Admits: Bush A Disaster . Specifically, the author notes that "the Army ignored the lessons...
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VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... services for good'?)As Mexicans’ behavior in Mexico becomes ever more egregious, articles such as Christopher Manion’s 2001 classic become ever more salient for American citizens who recognize the fragility of our national future, given that we abut a neighbor like Mexico.But, in an important sense, we Americans have driven Mexico’s descent into chaos by making recreational drugs...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Scott Horton Interview On Past and Future of NeoconsPosted by Christopher Manion at November 13, 2008 12:06 PM, discussing the leftist origins of the neoconservatives, their hilarious hypocrisy on the UN, and the danger that they will find a home in the Obama administration. We even discuss the early (and tumultuous) years at National Review, where a variety of opinions was actually possible...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Thought For The DayPosted by Christopher Manion at November 12, 2008 07:32 AM"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."Alexis de Tocqueville
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Another Neocon Thigh-SlapperPosted by Christopher Manion at November 11, 2008 09:29 AMDavid Brooks to frame the issue for the coming battle for the GOP. Hilarity abounds -- why, it's a battle between the Traditionalist neocons and the Reformer neocons!Yes, folks, leading the Traditionalists are Limbaugh and Hannity, and for the Reformers, the Little Frummer Boy, tapping the tune for a...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Or so thinks NR's Deroy Murdock, a cheerleader who usually chirps for the home-team GOP. He's not a major NR staffer, so one wonders, are they using him as a decoy, testing the waters in anticipation of an en masse...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Neocon Mea Culpa? No Way!Posted by Christopher Manion at November 5, 2008 11:30 AMFor the folks at National Review, Iraq . Obama just had it too easy, that's all. And hey, McCain did better than Bob Dole! Wow!At the Weekly Standard, McCain's devastating loss was easy to explain: he was just . Rest assured, these ignorant bozos will be at the trough, claiming "leadership" of the conservative...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Fred 'Flintstone' Barnes Finally Sees The Writing on the Wall of the CavePosted by Christopher Manion at November 4, 2008 07:17 AM, even sees a "lurch to the left" coming, but don't expect him to blame himself or his neocon pals for paving the way. Gee, he weeps, all these left-wingers will come to power -- but he wastes not a word on who it was that put them there: it's Fawning Fred...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
They Will Never, Ever, Blame ThemselvesPosted by Christopher Manion at October 28, 2008 10:01 AMRobert Kagan, of late. He regrets nothing. Except, of course, "If only they had listened to me ..."But work through this swill we must. Saint Ignatius said, "know your enemy better than he knows himself." And Kagan's posits will be the standard left-right interpretation of history that the...
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Party Platforms? What's That -- Sarah's Shoes'Posted by Christopher Manion at October 27, 2008 02:47 PM, during the fall 1996 presidential campaign, when someone confronted GOP candidate "Bob Dole Again" with a passage from the Republican platform adopted at the GOP convention that year, he said he hadn't bothered to read it.We know how far that got him.
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Little Frummer Boy Wants The Lifeboat All To HimselfPosted by Christopher Manion at October 27, 2008 09:04 AMWe've known for years that the neocon rats would flee the sinking Republican ship (that they themselves had scuttled, of course), but now they want to hijack the lifeboats too.The left-wing media want the left-wing "Republicans" to "rebuild" the GOP after they have destroyed it....
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The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
The Marvels Of Original Research!!!Posted by Christopher Manion at October 27, 2008 10:51 AMStop the presses!!Two brilliant plagiarists --oops, strike that, scholars -- have that "FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years"!!Will wonders never cease! But -- as we say in the Midwest -- seems I've heered that .
