Archive for 'Hitchens the Great'

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I’ll Mark You Down As Unimpressed

The great Hitchens delivers another one of those patented rejoinders, this time to the Obama speech on Wright and race:
It’s been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it’s […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Barack Obama, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

William F. Buckley, Jr.: A True Intellectual Giant

The big news of the day, of course, is the passing of one of the true fathers of modern American conservatism.  If you want coverage, you’ll find it in all the major outlets, and of course, the National Review website is chock-full of related articles.  I purchased my first Buckley book in high school, so […]

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Monday, November 19th, 2007

Hitchens Greets The Rising Tide In Iraq With Welcoming Skepticism

Perhaps still stinging from his fervent declarations in the war’s beginning that it was only a matter of time until the WMDs were found, Christopher Hitchens now plays the skeptic to news of a turning point in Iraq - although certainly a hopeful skeptic, at that:
A few weeks ago, in Britain’s Prospect magazine, the paper’s […]

30 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, August 26th, 2007

It Never Ceases To Amaze Me…

…that there are those on the left who think Christopher Hitchens is some sort of Bush Administration apologist simply because he supported the Iraq War (like most of the Democrats in Congress, and not a few Democratic presidential candidates, lest we forget). Let that supposition be forever laid to rest:
How do I dislike President […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, POTUS, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, June 18th, 2007

And You Thought I Could Resist This?

Okay, it’s Hitchens, first of all, and the subject is the absurdity of the Scooter Libby affair, in the second place, so the odds that I wouldn’t blog it are Slim and None - and Slim just left town:
If Scooter Libby goes to jail, it will be because he made a telephone call to Tim […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, PlameGate by Mark

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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

He’s Not A Fan

It’s fair to say Christopher Hitchens is a wee bit disappointed in the big George Tenet tell-all:
…[T]he only really interesting question is why the president did not fire this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war. Instead, he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom! Tenet is now so self-pitying […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Answering The Hard Questions

Christopher Hitchens, long known by both the right and the left as one of the strongest intellectual advocates of the Iraq War, looks back after four years and tries to answer his - and the war’s - critics.  A highlight:
Should it not have been known by Western intelligence that Iraq had no stockpiles of weapons […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Iraq, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Hitchens Chimes In

Our good friend Christopher is not saying anything we haven’t already been saying in these parts, but of course he says it with a good deal more style:
The critical thing about the much-bruited surge is that it, too, belongs in the all-important realm of the symbolic. A few thousand extra troops in […]

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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Hitchens On The Hanging

I expected Christopher Hitchens to, if not rejoice, then at least to express satisfaction at the end of Saddam Hussein.  In that, I was quite foolish, as I should have recalled Hitchens’ firm stance against the death penalty.  I most assuredly did not expect him to be this appalled:
The disgusting video of Saddam Hussein’s last […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Iraq by Mark

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Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Hitchens On Coulter

Ouch!
Try sipping this single sentence and then rolling it around your tongue and palate for a while:

If Hitler hadn’t turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too.
Well, I am being paid to parse and ponder that statement and I don’t understand it, either. Does it intend to say that liberals […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great by Mark

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Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Obituaries Reversed?

Robert Fisk, sadly but predictably, uses the occasion of Saddam’s death to blast Western democracies:
Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a “great day” for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi “government”, but on behalf of […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, POTUS, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Hitchens Visits Iraq…

…(and not for the first time, of course) and reports on the frustrating combination of progress and regression:
The distance between hope and despair, meanwhile, is measurable in vertiginous minutes. I flew to Baghdad from the northern city of Erbil, by the ordinary means of buying a local Iraqi Airlines ticket, boarding a plane that made […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

The Great One

Christopher Hitchens is so prolific that not all of his work can rank as highly as that of a writer more prone to distance between his pieces, but when he’s on, he’s as good as it gets, and his most recent column at Slate is a keeper:
The fate of those who criticize the Syrian presence […]

No Comments » - Posted in Iran, Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Terrible News From Lebanon

The most well-known Christian (and anti-Syrian) politician has been assassinated:
Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon’s official news agency reported.
His fatal shooting will certainly heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where the leading Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah has threatened to […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, November 20th, 2006

Hitchens On O.J.

Actually, he considers that (’O.J.’) as being far too familiar, as we shall see shortly; nevertheless, if you think I’ll be able to resist when one of my favorite writers takes on one of the world’s most repellent slugs, you’re crackin’, to paraphrase Dean Martin (why do I feel like Dennis Miller all of a […]

No Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Hitchens On Kerry

Could I resist blogging about a Christopher Hitchens piece in the Wall Street Journal focusing on John Kerry’s latest humiliation? No, I most certainly could not:
Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable “third rail” in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, John Kerry, POTUS, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

This Is Called “Picking The Wrong Guy To Argue With”

If one is to tangle with Christopher Hitchens, one had better come well-prepared, a lesson David Corn has learned the hard way.  Corn purports to show Hitchens is wrong about Niger (and by extension, about Joe Wilson) here:
In mid-October 2002, a nuclear analyst named Simon Dodge in the State Department’s intelligence division was forwarded copies […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, PlameGate, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Hitchens Destroy’s Frank Rich’s One Remaining Ounce Of Credibility

You really must read the whole thing in it’s entirety, so no excerpts for you!…

3 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Friday, September 1st, 2006

Hitchens: The US Will Take On Iran, Or No One Will

Sometimes moral clarity is not fun, but as usual, Hitchens is right:
[Iran]‘s been gearing up already with a conflict with the European Union first, to whom it lied repeatedly about its enrichment and other activities.  It is lying internationally through the U.N. 
No, of course, the Russians won‘t support the U.S. call for sanctions.  No, […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Iran, Hitchens the Great, Radical Islam / GWOT, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

PlameGate’s End: Denouement Of A Farce

Contra Kevin Drum, with his ridiculous assertion that “this case is far from closed“, Christopher Hitchens argues it should have never been open:
…[N]ow we have the final word on who did disclose the name and occupation of Valerie Plame, and it turns out to be someone whose opposition to the Bush policy in Iraq has—like […]

12 Comments » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, PlameGate, Iraq by Mark

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