Ben Bernanke: Bust of the Year – by Vasko Kohlmayer

Why should we expect the Fed Chairman to solve a crisis he didn’t see coming?

The Marijuana and Conservatism Debate – by FrontPagemag.com

Professor Mary Grabar and NewsReal’s David Swindle go toe-to-toe on the right response to the war on drugs.

Heartfelt Condolences to Teresa Heinz Kerry, Fighting Breast Cancer

I’m the author of two books on Teresa Heinz. The first, 57 Varieties of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Radical Philanthropy, came out weeks before the 2004 election. The second, Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Radical Gifts, came out four years later. In tandem, they document how she used tax-exempt grants t0 underwrite the 2004 Democratic National [...]

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ObamaCare: The Other Socialist Connection (Meet Marilyn Katz)

John Perazzo has another chapter in the ever-growing list of Obama Communist associations and influences at FrontPage Magazine. “The Communists Behind Obama’s Health Care Goals,” which draws on the research of Trevor Loudon, traces the influence of Dr. Quentin Young, a former Young Communist League who went on to join the Democratic Socialists of America  [...]

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Health care bill on brink of Senate passage – AP

emocrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system. via Health care bill on brink of Senate passage – Yahoo! News.

Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 – AP

President Barack Obama’s commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. via Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011 – Yahoo! News.

Are we Fighting the Left or the Counterculture? Because They are Not the Same Thing

Read Mary Grabar’s original Pajamas Media article here.
Read David Swindle’s NewsReal rebuttal here.
Read Mary Grabar’s NewsReal response here.

Mary Grabar’s response in our debate about drug criminalization has clarified her opposition to marijuana legalization in an important way. She concluded her essay with these words:
As I see it, this debate really is about more than [...]

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Media Matters left speechless by Mark Steyn

I teased Mark Steyn via email yesterday morning, because his guest stint on Hannity wasn’t generating any faux outrage or not-very-withering sarcasm over at the George Soros Steno Pool, a.k.a. Media Matters.
Steyn’s had a busy week, guest-hosting for Hannity on television and then today, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh. For whatever reason, that particular gig [...]

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Fort Hood jihadist consulted cleric about whether killing U.S. soldiers was permitted under Islamic law

But remember, this has nothing — nothing — to do with Islam, if you believe Army brass and, of course, Obama himself. That willful blindness has shown itself to be the root of the failures in intelligence (in more than one sense of the word) that led to this attack….

‘Tis the Season for Holocaust Revisionism

As millions of Americans prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, the Daily Beast’s James Carroll has a festive piece accusing the Catholic Church of a “shameful bid to rewrite Holocaust history.”  The problem: Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration that Pope Pius XII, who “knew early on of Hitler’s plan for the Final Solution of the [...]

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