“The Bush administration used the criminal justice system to convict more than 300 individuals on terrorism-related charges,” writes Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter to Republican critics in Congress. The letter is part of the Obama administration's aggressive defense of its decision to grant full American constitutional rights to al Qaeda soldier Umar [...]
Byron York: Who are the 300 terrorists held in U.S. prisons? – Washington Examiner
February 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Point/CounterPoint: Should We Be Concerned About Sarah Palin’s Endorsement of Rand Paul?
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Louisville Mojo:
As Republican US Senate candidate Dr. Rand Paul approaches his biggest campaign event yet—a Saturday rally at the Fairgrounds that will feature Paul onstage with his dad, former Presidential candidate and US Congressman Dr. Ron Paul—the big news is an upcoming endorsement from 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
David Adams, Paul’s campaign manager, [...]
Kicking the Palestinian Habit
February 2, 2010 By 10 Comments
The Middle East “peace process” is on hold – and that’s a good thing.
Praying for Socialized Medicine
January 22, 2010 By 49 Comments
As Obamacare implodes, the religious Left has a meltdown.
Rupert is a FOX but Time Warner was a Weasel – Part 3: Red, White & Football
January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2
New Year’s Day came complete with hangover remedies and football…but no government assistance required, thank you very much. We should thank the gods of television for the latter because John Kerry was willing to invoke Capitol Hill to make sure no American would be deprived of [...]
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Peter Beinart: The War on Terror Isn’t a War
January 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’re trying to kill large numbers of people who are trying to kill you en masse, most people would correctly identify this situation as a war. President Barack Obama knows this, which is why he bristled at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent claims that he doesn’t treat our counterterror efforts like a war [...]
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Yes, Calvin, Conservatism Shouldn’t Abandon Cultural Issues, It Should Just Be Smart about Pursuing Them
December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In reaction to my ongoing dialogue with Mary Grabar regarding drug legalization, conservatism and the counterculture, my NewsReal colleague Calvin Freiburger responded fairly to a poorly-worded statement of mine. Calvin highlighted these closing remarks for criticism:
A conservatism that can win is one which understands itself and defines itself as a political movement, not a cultural [...]
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Peter Suderman: How the CBO became the biggest impediment to ObamaCare, Reason Magazine
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It was January 2009, and Democrats were triumphant. Their party had won major victories in both the House and the Senate, and Barack Obama, arguably the most economically left-wing president in decades, had just won the White House on a promise to finally achieve what had eluded liberals for so long: universal health care. As [...]
Stimulus 3.0? – by Jacob Laksin
December 9, 2009 By 13 Comments
President Obama promises to spend the country out of recession – again.
Steven F. Hayward: Scientists Behaving Badly, Weekly Standard
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.’s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor [...]
