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The Navy in the Blue-Water Blogosphere

By | 01.28.09 | 2:54 pm

My love for the U.S. Naval Institute’s blog is second only to my love of Coke Zero. Over the last week, the blog has sparked a far-reaching debate about how the Navy reacts or doesn’t interact with the blogosphere after a vice admiral left some comments on a More…

A is not A

By | 01.27.09 | 7:02 am

A lesson: When Glenn Reynolds asks whether “Barack Obama’s popularity has already plunged 15 points,” he is linking facetiously to a post that makes no sense. In this case, one by Don Surber.

Citing a Gallup Poll, the London Sun reported President Obama is

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ACLU’s Romero on Closing GTMO On Day One

By | 01.12.09 | 5:21 pm

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, read The Associated Press’ story about President-elect Barack Obama possibly ordering the military to plan the closure of Guantanamo Bay as one of his first acts in office and emailed this to reporters:

“While the news from unnamed sources in the Obama

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GetAfghanistanRight.com

By | 01.12.09 | 1:02 pm

Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the support of Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel More…

TrainWreckMedia

By | 01.12.09 | 9:15 am

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?

This is why.

Live From A Huge Foreign-Policy Confab

By | 01.08.09 | 8:52 am

I’m in one of the two massive ballrooms of the Washington Convention Center, where in a few minutes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to present a tour of the foreign-policy horizon. That’ll kick off a day-long event sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace called More…

Don’t Be So Sure About Haass, Holbrooke and Ross

By | 01.07.09 | 12:06 pm

Marc Ambinder reported this morning that three top diplomats — Richard Haass, Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross — will be President-elect Barack Obama’s envoys to various global hellholes: Iran, Israel/Palestine, and Afghanistan/Pakistan/India. He says it’s “confirmed,” but I’ve heard otherwise.

It appears, particularly with Haass, the chairman of the More…

Do We Really Have To Call Steve Kappes A Torturer?

By | 01.06.09 | 11:50 am

First Read reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director is current deputy director Steve Kappes. Kappes, unlike Leon Panetta, is a consummate intelligence professional. He played a key role in the nuclear disarmament of Libya, speaks Persian and Russian, and was purged by Porter Goss More…

The Most Corrupt Presidency Ever!

By | 01.05.09 | 10:00 am

It’s still just the embryonic Barack Obama administration, of course, but the light-speed downfall of Bill Richardson, Obama’s nominee for Commerce Dept. secretary, has brought back a conservative meme that had faded after Obama escaped blame in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scandals.

I should be clear: This is a More…

That’s What I Call Reporting!

By | 01.05.09 | 9:07 am

Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (“Bullcrap.”), suggests the work of Bay Area-based Zombie.

Internet journalist/blogger and Little Green Footballs regular Zombie (not “conservative” per se, but rather anti-sharia/anti-jihad/anti-anti-American/anti-extremist Left) did extraordinary work digging up documents

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