I’m on a Christopher Buckley binge at the moment: read Florence of Arabia earlier this week; now I’m on Little Green Men. Flo only takes an afternoon or so, and it’s excellent. Consider this passage about American opinion regarding a crisis in the Middle East:
There were those who urged caution, and those who urged that [...]
Some libertarians (and Libertarians) have had doubts about Bob Barr’s antiwar credentials. Lately he’s been sounding the right notes — calling for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and no U.S. bases in the country, for example — but suspicions linger in certain quarters. Since won’t be president, the question is more or less moot, but [...]
The UK has just had two parliamentary by-elections, in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield. “David Cameron’s Conservatives,” as the Ealing ballot called them, came in third in both. Labour’s share of the vote was down in both places, though, and the Tories’ share was marginally up — by less than 1%.
Cameron didn’t just have his name [...]