The president doesn’t seem to grasp when too much is a bad thing.
California’s Book Ban
May 3, 2010 By 14 Comments
A Golden State lawmaker pushes for ban on new Texas textbooks.
Mojave Cross’s existence poses problem for historical revisionists
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It was touch and go for a while, but the ACLU’s failure to produce a time machine convinced the Supreme Court that a 76-year-old Latin cross in the California desert was not erected by today’s fanatical, right-wing Christian theocrats who are trying to force religious tyranny upon historically godless America.
“I’m very disappointed,” said the Rev. [...]
Joe Klein Reads Off His Napkin: Beck and Palin “Rub Right Up Close To Being Seditious”
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Times columnist Joe Klein never misses an opportunity to make a fool of himself. His latest bufoonery was displayed on NBC’s April 18 edition of “The Chris Matthews Show.”
I did a little bit of research just before this show – it’s on this little napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct [...]
Mea culpa: MSNBC apologizes for implying Pope was child molester
April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’ll leave it to others more patient (and frankly, more interested) than I am to debunk the media malpractice coverage of the latest Vatican/sex abuse stories.
And “malpractice” isn’t too strong a word:
The Associated Press ran a story about how the mentally unstable man who shot Pope John Paul II believes that Benedict should resign.
Anyhow. I’ve [...]
NewsReal Blog Interview with John Yoo, Part 3: Good Presidents Make Their Own Rules
March 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
John Yoo is currently a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2001 to 2003 he was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Council at the U.S. Department of Justice. It was during this time that he co-authored the Bybee memo defining torture and American Habeas [...]
The Carter Syndrome: Why Obama Must Reconcile His Inner Jefferson with His Inner Wilson – Foreign Policy
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Walter Russell Mead Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one have a long history at the core of the American political tradition. In the past, such ideas [...]
Seven Miracles that Saved America – by David Forsmark
January 6, 2010 By 10 Comments
A new book examines the overwhelming odds the U.S. beat to become a nation.
Jon Rowe Gives Insight on the Founders in Grabar vs Swindle Marijuana Debate
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My friend Jon Rowe, a libertarian blogger and college professor, has written a thoughtful post responding to my debate with Mary Grabar on marijuana legalization, conservatism, and the counterculture.
Over the years I’ve found Jon’s blogging on the founding to be tremendously erudite and engaging. If you haven’t been following his writing then you really should.
Here’s [...]
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