February 5, 2008

Recommended 2/5

Is Obama the latest empty vessel for the "politics of meaning"? Fred Siegel at City Journal; Bizarre Bedfellows for Barack. See also James Kirchick at contentions on the Dianafication of Obama.

Claudia Rosett reports on what passes for financial disclosure by United Nations officials. Try to keep a straight face.

The ninth and last of Jay Nordlinger's dispatches from the World Economic Forum in Davos, with links to the first eight.

Deeds...not words. Terry Eastland suggests that if Obama wishes to transcend race, a good start would be to call for an end to racial preferences.

If you missed Michael Totten's latest from Iraq....don't.

There are lots of people who supported the Iraq campaign in 2003 who are now, shall we say... less than honest about it. But not all of them left an Internet trail to prove it like Joe Klein did. Peter Wehner at NRO.

And Victor Davis Hanson gets more in depth on the same issue raised by Joe Klein. Was Iraq the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. history?

Posted by dan at February 5, 2008 11:02 PM