For weeks, Chris Matthews– along with the rest of the mainstream media– has been promoting the idea that the Arizona immigration bill is aimed at all Latinos. On “Hardball” Friday, while talking with turncoat Republican (the only good kind) governor Charlie Crist, Matthews revealed he suspects this of Republicans because that’s how he lumps people together. [...]

Chris Matthews and Charlie Crist got so slobbery over each other Friday night that all reason and historical perspective was shed quicker than clothes in a parked car with Sam Cooke singing Don’t Know Much About History on the radio. CRIST: The 14th Amendment should stay the way it is …That’s the way it’s always been. [...]

Here is the way the Left lies.  Take something that’s an only slight distortion, then build from there until the end result has no relation to the truth.  Then, as the line goes from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, reprint the legend, over and over and over.
For instance: Iraq was not involved with operational [...]

At the height of oil spill frenzy, no one was more hysterical than Chris Matthews, wailing and gnashing his teeth on a nightly basis with the most dire prophecies.
“We are destroying this North American continent that God gave us!”
Matthews showed maps of the oil spill eventually polluting the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. [...]

What’s better than a good thriller in the summer?  How about 14 good thrillers.
In Agents of Treachery, billed as the first collection of original espionage stories ever assembled, Otto Penzler, literary agent extraordinaire, has assembled an unbelievable collection of today’s most prominent writers of international intrigue.
Among the highlights is an Alistair MacLean-like story of an OSS operative [...]

In a surprise move, the Obama Justice Department filed suit today against the State of Michigan and Macomb County for prosecuting a Washington Township man for bank robbery, under its controversial and tough bank robbery statute.
Scott Edward Berry, 38, was arraigned in May in Macomb County District Court, after being arrested by the county Sheriff.
“Bank [...]

Whenever the budget becomes a potent political issue, liberals target two areas in the defense budget– military demonstration teams, and weapons that assure America’s future dominance.
Lately, conservatives have started to join that bandwagon, to show they are not reflexively against defense cuts.  This is a mistake.
The pride and patriotism stirred by the Blue Angels pays [...]

Yesterday, John Guardiano’s post protesting Col. Ralph Peters’s supposed “cheap shots” at Petraeus, is far more personally pointed than anything Peters said on Bill O’Reilly’s program.
Col. Peters (who supported the “surge” in Iraq) is skeptical about nation building in Afghanistan, correctly pointing out that you can’t “rebuild” something that has never been built.
The key [...]

When I wrote movie reviews for about 15 years for a midsized (then) daily newspaper, I often heard the wisecrack, “I read reviews, then do the opposite of what they recommend.”  The polite people would add, “Except for you, of course.”
Perhaps the best illustration of the gulf between popular and elite opinion was the 2008 [...]

HBO and Showtime justify their subscription rates this month with two
superb documentaries.  HBO is giving prime time to For Neda, a biography of Neda Agah Soltan who was gunned down in a Tehran street durig a democracy demonstration.  Meanwhile Showtime is featuring one of the all time great war documentaries, Brothers at War, in which a [...]