It was a veritable blizzard of epiphanies today. George Will returned to Toryism in opposing the reflexive rush to war against Iran; the former head of Shin Beit argued powerfully that the occupation of the West Bank was a far more existential threat to Israel than Iran; Pete Wehner urged conservatives to care about poverty and inequality (but he has always believed that); Americans expressed the view in record numbers that the US should mind its own business in world affairs; readers revisited my calamitous misjudgment in Iraq. All in all, that’s quite a shift from 2003, isn’t it?
I didn’t quite expect a thread on lying to your kids to end up with a “shitting log“, but that’s Dish readers for you. The Face of the Day should easily win the year’s award for best in blog 2013. And liberal magazines were caught with their exploitative pants down.
The most popular post of the day remained my critique of Rush Limbaugh on Pope Francis; runner-up was Always Tell Kids The Truth?.
See you in the morning.
(Photo: A newscaster broadcasts from under the marquee at the historic Apollo Theater, which announces the death of former South African President and civil rights champion Nelson Mandela, on December 5, 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York, United States. By Andrew Burton/Getty Images.)
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