I’ve been reading Dreams from My Father. Given the way the book is written, and how frank it is, it seems clear that when he wrote it, Barack Obama had no idea he’d ever be running for president. I’m realizing that Obama is a more radical departure from previous presidents than I’d ever [...]
I present one of my favorite YouTube findings ever, William F. Buckley, at the height of his career as a political commentator, in a debate with Noam Chomsky, at the beginning of his, in 1969:
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I’d really like to see how Edwards, Obama, and Clinton would respond to this two part question:
(1) On what basis do we have the right to send in troops after Al Qaeda in Pakistan against the order of the Pakistani government, or to make the unilateral decision to launch an attack on Iran?
(2) Under what [...]