THE ODDS IN September were in Bill Kristol’s favor. Bashar al-Assad’s army had been caught using sarin gas, the president was beating the war drums, and Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard and an accomplished foreign policy percussionist himself,…
I HAVE A disease. That may sound strange given that I’m a seemingly healthy 26 year old with a rigorous five-hours-a-day hot yoga routine. But in today’s victimization culture, I’m convinced not only that I can be classified as sick,…
Truth be told, I’d much rather be writing about the Red Sox than the current unctuous occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But politics has to intrude on the Spectacle blog at some point. Fred Barnes writes today: Unpleasant shocks loom for…
Liberals have thought themselves awfully clever this past week following a segment on Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show in which he asked people what they thought of both “Obamacare” and the “Affordable Care Act.” Turns out respondents hated Obamacare but were…
By now, you’ve probably heard about the horrors that have swept America as a consequence of the government shutdown. Small towns are collapsing into the ground as government employees wander the streets searching for a subsidy or at least something…
One of Washington journalism’s most cherished traditions is making absurd comparisons between political debates and grand military battles. Obamacare, you’ll remember, was to be the GOP’s Waterloo. Republican policy criticisms in 2010 were called a blitzkrieg. If you’re a heavily…
Chris Hayes, host of All In, is generally thoughtful and one of the few MSNBC evening hosts who regularly welcomes conservative guests. But addressing the Navy Yard shooting in last night’s monologue, starting around 3:30, he made one of the least…
This is horrible: Two witnesses tell CNN affiliate WJLA they heard their building’s fire alarm go off and saw a man with a rifle as they exited the building. “He aimed the gun and fired our way,” Todd Brundidge told…
Make that the Navy Yard mass shooting. What a dark day: Twelve people were killed Monday after at least one shooter opened fire in a rampage at a Navy yard in the nation’s capital, putting government buildings on lockdown and sending…
Leon Hadar has written an essay at The American Conservative exploring why Washington loves to go to war and setting our foreign policy against the backdrop of Mark Leibovich’s recent insider tell-all This Town. I think he’s onto something here: Ask yourself why…