For a super fast foreign policy cram...articles, articles, articles...easily accessed and absorbed.

Read Krauthammer, George Will, Gordon Chang, Mark Steyn, dig up some Christopher Hitchens, Bill Gertz, John Bolton, VDH, Frank Gaffney, Fouad Ajami, Claire Berlinski, Norman Podhoretz...

Articles are short, you can organize them easily by topic, they will direct you quickly to other possile sources...I'm sure I've only scratched the surface of the names you could read.

No.  Er....what was the question?

Could someone please give William Kristol a winning lotto ticket or something so he'll just go buy an island and retire?  If you've read his most recent "thoughts" entitled "A Note on Romney's Arrogant and Stupid Remarks," you might be forgiven for thinking, at least initially, that he was being ironic...that he was going to defend Romney...or at least point out that there was considerable truth in what Mitt said.  You, however, would have been disappointed (though not surprised, I suspect) to find that good old Bill was engaged in the time honored, traditional Republican pastime of taking careful aim  at one's own big toe and pulling the proverbial trigger (normally followed by rancorous commentary in the excruciating aftermath on how the toe was looking at him funny).  I expect this crap from David Brooks (not that he's a Republican).  When it comes to beating a dead horse, with friends like Kristol who needs Democrats?

Damn.  Every damn time.  The Constitution song makes me tear up.  I'm disgusted by my own sentimentality...hold on...let me go listen again...

He was fired, I believe.  I'm interested to see how quickly he is hired back after a "review" of his comments or is picked up by another organization.  The only crime that liberals would candidly acknowledge is that he got caught.  He's still salvageable in their eyes, or so I suspect.

This seems akin to watching the moon landing and then wryly commenting that if they'd only tried a little harder, they could have probably gone to Mars.  For the first time, ever, Republican presidential candidates can speak about the untenable nature of how Medicare (and by extension other entitlements) can not remain as they are currently constituted (just that is a miracle) without it being instantaneous , de facto political immolation...just suicide... period... game over, man, game over... 

Be patient.  It is a very long and complicated conversation we are trying to have with the rest of our citizens and a very hard reality we are trying to open their eyes to.  I do not see the value in "holding fast" to a line of argumentation (however obliquely) that has in the past been compared, rather accurately, to grabbing a hold of the third, electrified rail of a train track.  The conversation ends and no progress is made.  Steady as she goes, boys. 

polyanna twaddle

It's not their perspective that's off putting, different opinions are why I'm prompted to listen.  It's their candid and almost complete ignorance of the details of Fast and Furious while dismissing it's significance that's irritating.

Wildly simplistic.  The idea that Romney (or for that matter any of the Republicans running this year) is ideologically equivalent to Barack Obama is patently ridiculous, unless you cast it within a context that is so extraordinarily broad that it places Ronald Reagan in the camp of the politically suspect.  (It strikes me, now, as I write this that you might actually believe that...shudder.)  Okay.  Purely practical then. Assume Romney and Obama are the same.  Obama is a lame duck.  No political pressure from Libertarians or Tea Partiers will move him.  He will do as he wishes because you have NO power over him.  Romney would be seeking re-election.  It is at least PLAUSIBLE, then, that he can be moved to "curb" his "statist" leanings.  Remember how "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" didn't happen under Bush.  Remember Harriet Miers.  Remember the Tea Party sea-change after Obamacare.  You will have NO EFFECTIVE POLITICAL VOICE during an Obama second term.  None.  This is axiomatic.   The question is, are you a "if this boat isn't going to head my way, then I'm burning the boat, the hell with all of you" type.   Just foolish. 

Dude...broken watch...twice a day...

It could happen.

A few questions:  How are the protests and deaths in Syria (as compared to Egypt) playing in the medias of Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and other Middle Eastern Countries?    Is there some sense that the coverage is subdued because the governments of these other countries see the Assad regime, if not favorably, at least as still intact and "legitimate?"  Meaning, to criticize Assad is to open the door to disruptions in their own nations?  Has there been coverage of refugees coming across the border from Syria into Turkey, Iraq, Jorday and Lebanon?  Is this developing into a humanitarian crisis that is expanding outside of Syria's borders?

Couldn't agree more.  I suppose what I find most distressing, apart from our slide as a nation, is that this isn't simply a case of being asleep at the switch, is it?  There are those of us for whom this is an important, galvanizing issue and those of us, I'm speaking of the broader community of fellow Americans here, that are committed, for reasons they consider moral imperatives, to pushing us further down that list.  "Freedom" is less important that certain kinds of "certainty" in their minds.  They are our implacable enemies in this struggle, using the term enemies advisedly, and, I fear, we are losing the rhetorical battle.

See that...that's the kind of ingenuity I'm talking about!

I just had a "Atlas Shrugged" flashback. 

I guess it would depend on whether you believe that this nation is, in fact, on the road to catastrophic collapse or, at the very least, a final, fundamental divergence from pride, self-reliance and a uniquely American spirit as a historical norm OR...

...that, that is just a bunch of b.s. that hysterical, conservative ninnies (or feckless, crap weasels if you prefer) tell themselves in order to justify their "fetishizing" of an overrated and, perhaps, mythical American national identity.

I reject the premise, however, that their is moral equivalence between Obamacare and "Ryancare," so I have no moral qualms about "ramming through" our agenda.  At some point, someone is right and someone is wrong and, ultimately, only history will be able to authoritatively make that call.  Ram it through, if need arises, or admit you don't really have any confidence in what your side claims to believe.

One way ticket from Italian coast to Gaza: E£385

Phone call to Italian consolate you were never permitted to make: E£2

Being captured by the savages you came to champion: See where I'm going with this...