Remember NewsHounds? These Fox-hating peddlers of arguments that are really, really lame even by lefty standards (the most spectacular of which was falsely accusing Johnny Dollar’s Place of supporting plagiarism using one of my own quotes) never seem to run out of spitballs to shoot at Sean Hannity. In the blog’s latest petty attack, Ellen [...]
This weekend, NewsRealBlog’s Lori Heine objected to Ann Coulter’s recent column attempting to tie WikiLeaks enabler Bradley Manning to the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Today, she responds to several critical commenters. I’m not terribly interested in revisiting DADT right now—my position is that I’ll defer to military experts on what changes should be [...]
Congressional Democrats are determined to do something with their power while they still have it, and since they’re on the way out anyway, it might as well be something the American people really don’t want, like “comprehensive” immigration reform. This week, Sean Hannity spoke with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) about the latest push for the [...]
Leftists want you to think this is what the Smithsonian uproar is about. Don’t buy it. The Christmas season just wouldn’t be Christmas these days without government-sponsored desecration of images sacred to most Americans. By now you’ve probably heard about the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s charming new exhibit depicting, among other things, a bloody Jesus [...]
In the wake of the Transportation Security Administration’s outrageous new pat-downs and full-body scans at airports, several prominent conservatives, including Sarah Palin and Charles Krauthammer, have called for racial/ethnic profiling as a more effective, less intrusive alternative security measure. But while leftists will react to them as they always do—call them simple-minded, knee-jerk bigots—they’ll have [...]
If conservatives are outraged about something, you can bet that Peter Beinart will soon be on the case, there to explain why it’s no big deal and you should just go about your business. Today on the Daily Beast, Beinart explains why the latest batch of revelations from Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks is an overblown drama: [...]
When it comes to wailing about the rise of “extremists” on the Right, few organizations play the game more doggedly than the Southern Poverty Law Center. Looking through their “What We Do” page on “Hate and Extremism”—which discusses suing “hate groups” for “murders and other violent acts,” and bears pictures of cross burnings and sieg [...]
Among the angry rantings of anti-war leftists and Paulite libertarians, you’ve probably noticed one name popping up again and again: Michael Scheuer. Scheuer is a former CIA officer who headed the agency’s unit on Osama bin Laden. His popularity with war critics stems from his argument that Islamic terrorist attacks against the United States are [...]
Harassing harmless American citizens in the name of national security is one thing; harshly treating terrorists is another story. For obvious reasons, we tend to be far less sympathetic to the interests of the people trying to murder us, but even with moral qualms out of the way, handling captured terrorists presents complications of a [...]
During the Bush years, Democrats and leftists came to loathe the stinging charge that their foreign policy views posed a threat to national security, and now that one of their own is the commander-in-chief, it’s payback time. At the Daily Beast, former Assistant Secretary of State Leslie Gelb accuses congressional Republicans of being willing to [...]
