Michael Goldfarb outdoes himself. Also, new category.
Open Thread
Analyze the world through Goldberg logic. My entry: the fact that most people on Earth wear underwear beneath their pants indicates that Hitler, who also dressed in this manner, actually won World War II.
Progress
Sullivan: I have to say I am beginning to believe that these abortions, given their excruciating moral and personal choices, may be the most defensible in context of all abortions. And yet they seem to be taking life in a more viscerally distressing way. I need time to think and rethink these things. I would …
Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated
A friend from the finance world wrote in about the various comments on the death of US manufacturing: Remarkably, US manufacturing dwarfs everyone (and this doesn’t include things like agriculture, movies, utilities, etc.., where we dwarf the world). Non manufacturing = real estate (yes, non-manufacturing), arts and entertainment, retail trade, finance and insurance, utilities (these …
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Good Catch
Isaac Chotiner catches a great exchange between Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg: BECK: What a nightmare this is. Can you give me any example in history where this kind of stuff has happened, what’s happening today, and what does it lead to? GOLDBERG: …I’m not calling Barack Obama a Hitler and I’m not calling him …
Mistakes Were Made
Why do these guys hate the military: A military investigation has concluded that American personnel made significant errors in carrying out some of the airstrikes in western Afghanistan on May 4 that killed dozens of Afghan civilians, according to a senior American military official. The official said the civilian death toll would probably have been …
Red Province, Blue Province
Harold Myerson of the Washington Post is shrill about our new economic overlords’ skill at learning from America’s Best Capitalists(tm): The military units that rolled into Beijing 20 years ago today came chiefly from the sticks. Isolated by geography and indoctrination from the liberalism flowing through Chinese cities and packed into Tiananmen Square, they were …