The DiploMad: Some years ago, more than I care to recount, I served at the US Mission to the UN. Years later, again, more than I care to count, I served at the US Mission to the OAS. Much of the work involved fighting over obscure resolutions and parsing words, trying to wring every possible definition and interpretation out of words. To some observers, this exercise struck them as silly,

I’m assuming, after Libya, this is meant as a rhetorical question. Because really, who’s going to stop him?  The anti-war left isn’t really an anti-war left, save for a few fart-dusting sixties throwbacks. Instead, they are a progressive lockstep political movement that relies on antifoundationalism to bracket its own hypocrisies and rationalize its own ends-justify-the-means policies. Here, Obama needs to save face. And to do so, he needs to lob

Compliments of Doug Ross. Don’t despair, though.  Rumor has it that all of Speaker Boehner’s orange tears are being collected in a set of mason jars, and that, with a little work, the US military will be able to develop from them an aerosolized compound that actually forces our enemies to surrender pre-emptively, often before there’s even been mention of a possible dispute. So you see:  Life gives your and

Jim Pethokoukis: I am actually reluctant to comment on Slate’s trolling-masquerading-as-analysis piece “If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person.” And I certainly don’t want to spend much time refuting writer Allison Benedikt’s fact-free, data-free “argument”: If more upper-middle class and wealthy parents — a.k.a. Slate readers, I guess — sent their kids to their local public schools, the US education system would suddenly improve. 1.

Pro tip:  when Mother Jones thinks you’re overdoing it with the PC crap — however deftly they try to cover the implication — you’re probably moving so far left so fast that you are in danger of screwing yourself into the ground and burrowing directly through the earth. Which, if you happen to come out in China, well, how apropos. Last Thursday, as the jury in the trial of Nidal