Showing posts with label niall Ferguson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label niall Ferguson. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

If I Said I Like My Eggs Scrambled It Would Be A Sign,...


Jeepers, out of all the crazy things I write about - and I've written about this one before, too - to some this is still going to seem to be the craziest:

 Niall Ferguson doesn't think the economy is the only issue at play in this election. 

Imagine that. This crazy man (who even Glenn Reynolds was recently saluting for the accuracy of his claims) thinks it's possible people might be considering picking a President Of The United States on more than a single issue. I know - it's insane.

 But that's what I cover here, poor ol' misinformed and thinking-for-myself me,...
 

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Then And Now: President Bush's Instincts Beat The Pants Off Of Liberal New Age Intuition

"Bush’s instincts—his supporters would argue these are bedrock values—seem to be paying off… "

-- Joe Klein, hypocritical former Iraq War supporter and liberal columnist for TIME Magazine, in February 2005

"Bush’s instinct was not wrong. In this war, we do need pre-emptive detention of suspected terrorists; we do need a significant increase of surveillance, particularly of electronic communications; we do need, in some circumstances, to use coercive techniques (short of torture) to elicit information from terrorists."

-- Niall Ferguson, in today's New York Times book review of Philip Bobbitt's “Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century"