Europe’s Latest Try
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 11th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
The Band of Brothers Takes to the Gridiron
Lucas Tomlinson, WSJ
For the 112th time in their illustrious history, Army and Navy—the cadets of West Point and the midshipmen of Annapolis—face off on the football field Saturday. For the 11th straight year, those on both sides know they are preparing for military service in a time of war.Players on the field today represent a special breed of men. Where else will you find athletes who turned down college scholarships to attend institutions in which the first order of business is to endure “beast barracks” or “plebe summers,” periods of basic training for incoming cadets…
Britain Saves Itself From Europe
Niall Ferguson, The Daily Beast
To listen to some conservative commentary in London on Friday, you would think the British Prime Minister David Cameron just morphed into Winston Churchill, valiantly upholding England’s ancient liberties against German aggression. In fact, what happened in Europe this week was nothing so grandiose. David Cameron’s refusal to back a Franco-German plan to revise the European Union treaty was the culmination of a consistent Conservative policy, dating back to Margaret Thatcher and continued under John Major. That policy has been to resist any steps taken in the name of…
Kristof’s Dinner With Islamists
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
The New York Times"‹ has a long history of publishing disingenuous articles and columns that whitewashed totalitarians and tyrants. It’s not easy to top Walter Duranty"‹’s Pulitzer Prize-winning lies about Stalin and the terror famine in the Ukraine which took the lives of millions; Herbert Mathews’s portrayal of Fidel Castro"‹ as a democrat freedom-fighter; or, more recently, Roger Cohen"‹’s attempt to depict the Islamist regime in Iran as unthreatening philo-Semites who were not oppressing that country’s…
Newt’s Nastiness Comes Back to Haunt Him
Dana Milbank, Wash Post
The campaign of Mitt Romney, the Rip Van Winkle of presidential politics, finally awakened this week with a savage counterattack against Newt Gingrich, the man who against all odds is threatening to wrest the Republican nomination from Romney.In a conference call Thursday sponsored by Romney’s campaign, two surrogates of the former Massachusetts governor let fly with a barrage against Gingrich that was shockingly harsh even by today’s caustic standards.
