A Profile in Arrogance


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Jack Murtha’s sleazy political legacy.

Breaking the Taliban


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The capture of a top Taliban commander may mark a crucial turning point in the Afghan war.

U.S. curtails use of airstrikes in assault on Marja – washingtonpost.com


MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — To the Marines of Bravo Company, the black-and-white video footage from a surveillance drone seemed to present the perfect shot: more than a dozen armed insurgents exiting a building and heading to positions to attack U.S. and Afghan forces seeking to wrest control of this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Facing stiff [...]

Dick Cheney – Obama’s worst nightmare – Telegraph


Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again today with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end up as one of Barack Obama’s “great achievements”, as well as blistering criticism of the Obama [...]

David Horowitz and a Guided Tour of the “Ron Paul Revolutionary” Mind


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Debra Medina’s Truther exposure reignites scrutiny of anti-American libertarians.

John Murtha: Requiem for a Corruptocrat


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We’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared deserve to be defended.

Jeffrey Goldberg: Leon Wieseltier, Andrew Sullivan and Anti-Semitism – The Atlantic


Here are a couple of observations about Leon and Andrew, based on a more careful reading of Leon’s piece, and a look back at some of Andrew's greatest hits. 1 I don’t mean this as a cop-out, but Chait says much of what I would say, but better. 2 Like Chait, I don’t believe that [...]

The Homegrown-Terrorist Threat – Commentary


If 2001 was the year when international terrorism hit American soil, then 2009 was the year when Americans became the targets of domestic terrorism. In November, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, born in Virginia to Palestinian Muslim parents, killed 13 and wounded 30 in his one-man attack on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas. [...]

Exalting Khomeini’s Legacy


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Iran’s leaders try to reignite the cultish reverence for a bloody despot.

From the Writings of David Horowitz: February 9, 2010


A democracy at war is faced with problems dictatorships find avoidable. Its citizens have a responsibility—as the Left never tires of repeating—not to abandon the freedoms they are defending, in order to defend them. The imperative can be abused, however, as the Left’s actions constantly remind us. Justice Robert H. Jackson warned Americans, following the [...]