Soul Bossa Nova would be cool even if wasn't the Austin Powers theme. It's a Quincy Jones number.

ArmedLiberal is hosting a debate tackling post-modernism, the search for universal truth, and totalitarianism. Just a little light reading for a lazy summer afternoon before the real fireworks start.

On the Ashleigh Banfield last night, the hostess conducted man-in-the-street interviews with half a dozen or so Iraqis in downtown Baghdad (a city name which will forever remind me of Woody Woodpecker

One of the foundations of the United States is this:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

BBC. Now that was unexpected. Johnny Spann's father is upset that Lindh (or Walker, whatever) will now only get twenty years instead of a possible life sentence. But I think the government made the ri

So Don Arthur repsonds to Paul Wright by saying that Paul is unthinkingly applying narratives he's learned from several cheesey movies to the current War on Islamofascists. (Ozblog 1 is here.)

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Bunch of posts on Demosthenes' site which make the claim that the US can't violate another nation's sovereignty by invading it or instituting "regime change" no matter what the political character of

A different perspective on American hegemony from Matthew Parris writing in the Spectator:
Has it not yet dawned on the British political class that this is how boss nations behave? What earthly use

There's a great (if longish) article at Foreign Affairs by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth that analyzes America's pre-eminent position in the world today and sizes up potential challengers

There's an interesting exchange currently underway among some Australian bloggers. Start here with Paul Wright. Then go here for Don Arthur's response. Paul continues here.

My opinion on this is ob

There was an interesting series of comments to a post by Demosthenes about just why the American constitution disallows our participation in the International Criminal Court. Demsothenes' post itself

There's a strain of thought that informs us that with power comes responsibility. When we're children and have little power, our actions have few consequences of any weight and we tend to be shielded

Jonah Goldberg, writing in TownHall.com, mentions a central problem with two of Gore's campaign issues (link via VodkaMan):

I think Gore would lose in the primaries, even if he weren't the weird ma

Daddy Warblogs misses the point somewhat in response to an Instapundit reader's comments on the significance of Americans' perceived overwhelming support for Brazil over Germany in the World Cup. Says