Calling Sean Penn. Criticism of Chávez Stifled by Arrests And Vaclev Havel, someone Penn, et al. should admire, states Under Chávez’s rule, a radical form of state-sanctioned lawlessness has taken hold in the country. You could say that Venezuela now exists as a “lawless legality”, a political system within which officials deny that in making […]

Matthew Yglesias – Pelosi As Trailblazer Of course, the Pubs despise her. More, less than Obama? Is she Goering? Goebbels? (How did we ever revile people before we had Nazi references? I know – anti-Christ.) And, of course, Tom Delay was so much more attractive a figure. The truth is – one more “of course” […]

Tom Garafalo, The Havana Note – Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 1967-2010 Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a 42 year old political prisoner arrested by Cuban authorities in the crackdown of Spring 2003, has died after an 83 day hunger strike. Jonathan Chait, The New Republic – A Brief Reconciliation Primer As Mary McCarthy once said of Lillian Hellman, […]

Nick Meo, Telegraph – Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes (H/T Normblog) It’s all perfectly natural. I was unhappy about Tibet, so I attacked Chinese on the streets of Los Angeles. Christian Tau, Z-Word Blog – The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo Are we picking up a pattern here? Jonathan Chait, […]

The Long War Journal – All Headlines While conservative critics are gazing in the mirror, and the others are looking elsewhere, the Obama administration is waging real war. Adam Holland – Ron Paul website mourns anti-Semitic author A new crack sprouts in Paul’s pot’s spout. Barry Rubin, GLORIA Center – Why Isn’t There Peace? One […]