http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/weeklystandard/ en-us Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:06:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073369/posts Fred Thompson will forcefully defend the selection of Sarah Palin tonight in a speech Republicans are characterizing as "red meat." He will argue that the feeding frenzy over Palin's is the result of "panic" from the Democrat-friendly mainstream media. "What a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is. She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family. Let's be clear, the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073369/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071164/posts A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington--the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it. That spectre has a name--Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who's a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who's broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071164/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:26:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050409/posts You're not the only one unhappy about the Olympic mascots, collectively known as the Fuwa. If the Beijing Olympics' five cuddly mascots go down in history as a dud, their creator wants no part of the blame. After China's Olympics organizers gave him the assignment, folk artist Han Meilin initially sketched out five children representing the traditional Chinese elements of fire, wood, water, gold and earth. Then the bureaucrats got involved. "There had to be a panda, even though you'd think the public would have had enough of them," says the 72-year-old artist. Alas, mankind will never get enough of... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050409/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050277/posts The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050277/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:12:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048394/posts Almost anything can happen in an election year, but among conservatives, almost everyone seems to agree that no matter who captures the White House in November, the movement that has ruled the Republican Party since the 1960s and mostly dominated American politics since 1980 has lost its way. Across the spectrum of the right, writers and thinkers have turned their relentless analysis inward, a kind of political EST seminar aimed at self-transformation. The International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048394/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024954/posts Michael Goldfarb, online guru at the Weekly Standard, has taken a leave of absence from his post at the magazine to become deputy communications director for McCain. Standard chief Bill Kristol announced the move on their blog. In his new role, Goldfarb will use his grasp of the rightosphere to help drive the McCain message online and will also lend a hand in writing campaign materials. He'll focus especially on the rapid response element of a campaign that is already being fought hour by hour. A source at the magazine said that when Goldfarb announced his move at a staff... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024954/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:20:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012636/posts The NOTION THAT BARACK Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate is crazy. She passes the first test of a veep selection: she's a plausible president. But she fails the second. She doesn't qualify as a partner on the Democratic ticket (and possibly in the White House) that Obama would be comfortable with--far from it. But there is someone who does meet these two requirements, plus a third one and maybe a fourth. That person is Democratic Governor Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania. Yes, Rendell was the leading supporter of Clinton when she trounced Obama in the... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012636/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 20:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971679/posts Thomas Joscelyn has an excellent piece on the death of Imad Mughniyeh, and his possible connections to Al Qaeda and the terror attacks of 9/11: Death by Car Bomb in Damascus. Late Tuesday night in Damascus, Imad Mugniyah, senior terrorist of Hezbollah, was killed in a car bomb explosion. It was a fitting death for a founding father of Islamic terrorism, a man who himself had built many bombs. If you had not heard of Mugniyah before, there is a good reason. Terror chieftains like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri seek the limelight with their frequent and widely... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971679/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965262/posts THERE IS A LEFT-WING conspiracy at loose in the world, dedicated to undoing conservative governance, only the people who see it aren't sure what it is. John McCain is in it, of course, in fact he is the cause of it, as making him president is the ultimate goal. He is blamed for running, (and perhaps, for breathing), but beyond him the face of the threat is less clear. In fact, the faces are those of other conservative stalwarts, who were their heroes and brethren until--until, say, just after the Florida primary, when McCain emerged as a serious threat. These... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965262/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:26:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931951/posts PRESIDENT BUSH SAYS the presidency is still "a joyous experience" for him. "People ask if I would do it again. I would." And one reason for his upbeat mood in talking to a dozen journalists Wednesday is progress in Iraq, including revenue sharing by the central government with the provinces. Another is the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, though Bush cautioned that the creation of a Palestinian state won't come any time soon. Reconciliation between Shia and Sunni is occurring in Iraq, Bush said, but it's "bottom up reconciliation," not top down from the central government of Nouri a-Maliki. However, the... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931951/posts#comment Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905582/posts Justin Logan is a foreign policy analyst a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card famously remarked that the reason the White House ramped up the case for the Iraq War in September was that "from a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." To judge from recent developments, Americans may look back on August 2007 as the month the country again turned toward war—with Iran. The same network of think-tank analysts, media outlets, and government officials who brayed for war in Iraq have set their... Cato Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905582/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:07:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885046/posts It's hard to believe that, not so long ago, neoconservative foreign policy thinking overflowed with ideas and idealism. The descent has been steep, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the pages of The Weekly Standard--particularly in William Kristol's editorials, which have come to consist of stubborn denials of any bad news, diatribes about internal enemies, and harangues against the cowardice of Republican dissenters. Kristol's sensibility is perfectly summed up in one representative passage from a recent issue. The topic was The New Republic's decision to publish an essay by Scott Beauchamp, an American soldier serving in Iraq, detailing... The New Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885046/posts#comment Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877695/posts The Weekly Standard has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp -- author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns -- signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods -- fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source. Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad: "An investigation has been completed and... FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877695/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:59:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743571/posts Mike Fumento was a guest on the Mike Rosen show on 850am KOA here in Denver Wednesday (Nov. 23rd) to talk about his recent October 2006 trip to Ramadi, Iraq. Mike talks about the REAL story from the one of the most dangerous places in the country. Rosen Replay 11/22/06 10-11AM (about 45 minutes, MP3) Guest: Mike Fumento, journalist for "The Weekly Standard" talks about his latest article, "Return to Ramadi."Click here for part one of the interview Rosen Replay 11/22/06 11-11:45AM (about 30 minutes, MP3) Mike Fumento continued. Click here for part two of the interview --- Mike Fumento's... 'Rosen Replay' at his 850am KOA website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743571/posts#comment Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:01:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743363/posts Surrender as 'Realism' Retreat would win us no friends and lose us no adversaries. Foreign policy realism is ascendant these days, we are told. This would be encouraging if true, because our foreign policy must indeed be realistic. But what passes for "realism" today has very little to do with reality. Indeed, if you look at some of the "realist" proposals on the table, "realism" has come to be a kind of code word for surrendering American interests and American allies, as well as American principles, in the Middle East. Thus, the "realists" advise us to seek Syria's help in... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743363/posts#comment Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:34:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1734035/posts The Weekly Standard is bold in stating and supporting its ideology. Only it is not the traditional limited government conservatism devised by the movement's founders. The WS forthrightly informs its readers that George W. Bush is a "big spender," subheading a recent piece informing its readers that, "under Bush, the era of small government is over." Moreover, there is not much limited government conservatives can do about it. "Governing majorities can't stand still" the executive editor informs, they must spend more and more money on national problems because "that's what the public expects." Bush and the GOP Congressional leadership will... American Conservative Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1734035/posts#comment Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:33:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1667789/posts July 18, 2006 -- 'GROTESQUE" was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's characterization of the charge that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was responsible for the current Middle East conflagration. She is correct, up to a point. Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Rice called it "short-sighted" to judge the success of the administration's transformational ambitions by a "snapshot" of progress "some couple of years" into the transformation. She seems to consider today's turmoil preferable to the Middle East's "false stability" of the last 60 years, during which U.S. policy "turned a blind eye to the absence of democratic forces." There is,... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1667789/posts#comment Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:19:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632034/posts SHAME ON Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rupert Murdoch, the right-wing publishing mogul, is hosting a fund-raiser in July for her Senate reelection campaign. Her explanation is that Murdoch, based in New York, is an important constituent: ''I'm very gratified that he thinks I'm doing a good job." Murdoch runs Fox television, home of Bill O'Reilly and company. No far-right media enterprise has been more relentlessly dishonest in its efforts to destroy American liberalism in general and the Clintons in particular. Fox was prime cheerleader for the bogus Whitewater investigation and the impeachment campaign against Bill Clinton. Fox exists to oppose every... The Boston Globe...The New York Times Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632034/posts#comment Sun, 14 May 2006 14:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622853/posts The Weekly Standard turns 10. The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995–2005, edited by William Kristol, New York: Harper Collins, 534 pages, $27.95 When the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995, a frenzied guessing game began as to which major government program would be first to fall victim to Newt Gingrich’s merciless axe. Some observers wondered if one of the earliest casualties might be not a line item in the federal budget but rather the burgeoning conservative alternative media that aided the GOP during the previous year’s campaign. The idea was that these outlets would be victims of their own... Reason http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622853/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612508/posts There's a fascinating article in the Weekly Standard which grants a glimpse into the shadow war between state-sponsored terrorists and their pursuers. The accounts, based on documents captured in Afghanistan and Iraq, describe Saddam Hussein's support for the Abu Sayyaf terror group in the Philippines. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken. On March 16, the U.S. government posted on the web 9 documents captured in Iraq, as well as 28 al Qaeda documents that had been released in February. Earlier last week, Foreign Affairs magazine published a... The Belmont Club http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1612508/posts#comment Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608318/posts Okay. Let's not talk about substance--since the pro-immigration forces have in fact been winning that debate easily. Let's talk about ballot boxes John McCain, lead sponsor of a bill that resembles the Senate Judiciary Committee bill, has a pretty impressive electoral record in Arizona, a competitive state. George W. Bush, a pro-immigration Republican, has won two presidential elections--as did another pro-immigration Republican, Ronald Reagan. The American people are worried about immigration. In a Pew Survey released last week, 52 percent of Americans saw immigration as a burden, while 41 percent said it strengthened the country; 53 percent support sending illegals... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608318/posts#comment Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605028/posts The Document Refuseniks There is an effort afoot to discredit any material that may undermine the narrative that "Bush lied us into war" and that Saddam's connection to al Qaeda was tenuous at best. Consider this quote from an AP wire story today: [John] Prados, an analyst with the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute, dismissed the documents: "The collection is good material for somebody who wants to do a biography of Saddam Hussein, but in terms of saying one thing or the other about weapons of mass destruction, it's not there." Prados knows "it's not there," even if... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605028/posts#comment Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:58:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578645/posts TO ACCOMPANY the editorial in the new issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, we have reproduced the page with the Mohammed cartoons from the September 30 Jyllands-Posten. Readers should be able to see what this controversy is about. More important, in light of recent instances of capitulation to the threats of radical Islamists, and in response to eloquent pleas by individuals like Walid-al-Kubaisi in Norway to publish the cartoons in order to protect freedom of expression, we wanted to do our small part to stand against intimidation by extremists.--William Kristol The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578645/posts#comment Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:55:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577955/posts In discussion with a leftist friend he mentioned how badly the main stream media had done in buckling under to the pressure of the Muslim world by NOT actually reprinting the cartoons. Thus, we have another term for the Mainstream Media, the Dhimminized Press. Anyway, I was interested if people would list media who HAVE stood up to the attempted intimidation and printed the pictures. Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577955/posts#comment Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:23:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1577612/posts --> Weekly Standard Prints Mohammed Cartoons The Weekly Standard has reproduced Jylland-Posten's Mohammed cartoons, accompanied by this Editor's Note from William Kristol: TO ACCOMPANY the editorial in the new issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, we have reproduced the page with the Mohammed cartoons from the September 30 Jyllands-Posten. Readers should be able to see what this controversy is about. More important, in light of recent instances of capitulation to the threats of radical Islamists, and in response to eloquent pleas by individuals like Walid-al-Kubaisi in Norway to publish the cartoons in order to protect freedom of expression, we wanted to... My Pet Jawa - The Jawa Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1577612/posts#comment Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:16:40 GMT