Here’s a great story by David Margolick on the neocons, those big-government conservatives and Middle-East warmongers who dominate the conservative movement and the Republican party. Read it all, but here is just one excerpt, about who attended Irving Kristol’s funeral: Filling the pews were his progeny, not just biological but intellectual, and they were an impressive lot. They came from the publications that neoconservatives either run, like Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, or work for, like The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Others came from the think tanks where neocons congregate, particularly the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). There were … Continue reading ‘The Return of the Neocons’ (As If They Ever Left)