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...essential conundrum of 21st century conservatism--the notion that smaller government is what conservatives really want--was betrayed in three debates pitting libertarians against traditionalists on issues like immigration, gay marriage and the need for an alternative-energy plan. By my reckoning, the libertarians won none of them. My favorite moment came when Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute began pacing behind the podium, pulling his chin as he realized that his "let the market decide" rhetoric wasn't going over very well against former CIA Director Jim Woolsey's argument that, as a matter of national security...
...about none of the above? It should be obvious by now that the Bush Administration's attempt to inflate a serious long-term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally...
...lesson that Wendel has fully absorbed. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, he strutted onto a stage and faced all comers in the first-person shooter Quake 4. The first challenger lost, 23 to 0. Another scored -3. None of the 20-odd opponents scored a point. Afterward, Wendel talked up a new deal he had signed for the Championship Gaming Series. Instead of playing, Wendel will be announcing for DirecTV's new series. "I'm going to be the John Madden of gaming," says Wendel/Fatal1ty. That's when he's not being the Michael Jordan...
...minute exchange had none of the combativeness of a Rumsfeldian question-and-answer session. He started the brief by apologizing to the press for holding it on a Friday afternoon; he had pledged to reporters last week that he would hold one once a week, and rather than go back on his word, he asked his staff to set it up. Gates didn't stop the presses with his comments, but he answered directly and, even, dare say, respectfully. There was one exception - Gates was unable to explain why the Pentagon misled reporters in the initial reports about an incident...
...bizarre as the stories seemed, another chilling possibility was yet to be raised: that none of it had happened at all. In January, after an 18-month preliminary hearing that was the longest in California history, a judge ruled that the prosecution of the seven could go forward. But a week later District Attorney Ira Reiner dropped all charges against five of the defendants, calling the evidence against them "incredibly weak." The two remaining accused, Raymond Buckey, 28, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, were to be tried last month. Now their day in court has been postponed...