The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Purge Dick Cheney?

How dare he disagree with Bill Kristol! Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak is a “good man” who has been “a good friend and ally of the United States.” “We need to remember that,” Cheney said in remarks during an event in Santa Barbara, California Saturday to commemorate the 100th birthday […]

Hey, Remember That Crazy Conspiracy Theory Glenn Beck Was Talking About?

According to every Serious Foreign Policy Pundit, it’s absolutely insane for Beck to assert that the Left and the Islamists are in alliance to bring revolution to the Middle East. However, as Donald Douglas points out, that’s what the Left is telling us: The neo-Stalinist ANSWER homepage has the announcement, “Emergency demonstrations: Stop all U.S. […]

Kristol vs. Krauthammer?

Let’s you and him fight! Our friend Charles Krauthammer began his column last week by asking, “Who doesn’t love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria?” Some on the right, that’s who. . . . As Krauthammer puts […]

From the Department of Not Exactly News: Chris Matthews Is Very Confused

You can’t make up stuff as funny as this: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “I feel ashamed about this. I feel ashamed as an American, the way we’re doing this. . . . We’re not handling it as Americans should handle a matter like this. And I don’t […]

Spare Us Your Sermons

“We Are All Egyptians,” Nicholas Kristof declares in a New York Times column with a Cairo dateline. Except we aren’t Egyptians, and the vast majority of us will never set foot in Cairo. For those of us who aren’t traveling the world on an expense account, the Atlantic‘s Clive Crook offers this helpful reminder: The […]

EGYPT: Today’s Latest News Updates: Mubarak Warns of ‘Chaos’ (Video) UPDATE: Five-Day Internet Shutdown Cost Egyptian Economy $90 Million UPDATE: Blogger ‘Sandmonkey’ Free UPDATE: Tanks Fire on Protesters?

Christiane Amanpour interviews Hosni Mubarak: He said he’s fed up with being president and would like to leave office now, but cannot, he says, for fear that the country would sink into chaos. . . . When I asked him what he thought seeing the people shouting insults about him and wanting him gone, he […]

El-Baradei: CNN’s Choice, Not Egypt’s

A little-noted passage in a Wednesday news article: The Obama administration also reached out to Egypt’s top military officer, stressing the U.S. desire to see calm restored to the streets of Cairo, where pro- and anti-Mubarak forces fought with fists, stones and clubs. One of the things that has puzzled me for the past couple […]

VIDEO: Battle of Tahrir Square

One of my Twitter friends is closely following events in Egypt: You may have already seen some of this footage showing Wednesday’s charge (by what one of our blog commenters called “irregular cavalry”) on the anti-government protesters in Cairo. But it is, as Alyssa says, “astonishing.” The Christian Science Monitor has an account of the […]

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