NewsReal Blog Interview with John Yoo, Part 2: The Good (military commissions), The Bad (Federal Trials), and The Ugly (KSM)

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 [...]

Charles Rangel: A Profile in Corruption

Plagued by multiple serious scandals, Rep. Charles Rangel has stepped down from his post as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. The move, which Rangel said was “temporary,” came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the congressman that he did not have enough votes to survive an expected Republican challenge to his chairmanship. To view a [...]

From the Pen of David Horowitz: January 27, 2010

Another reason why radicals believe that their goals justify criminal means, and also why they can be relied on to lie and steal and, in the right context, either commit actual murder or justify murders when committed by their political friends, is because in their own minds they are engaged in a war for “social [...]

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The Left Doesn’t Mind Terrorism For A Good Cause

SEIU members aren’t Nazis but they sure seem to enjoy beating up their opponents.
The left has long favored terror and violence as a means of affecting change in society.
“We need to make ample use of terror,” said the infamous Felix Dzerzhinsky, V.I. Lenin’s internal security chief.
Marxist and terrorist sympathizer Naomi Klein called for riots at the [...]

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Sarkozy grows some spine: Burqa “not welcome” in France

Standing up for Western culture and mores. Got a problem with that? “Sarkozy says burka ‘not welcome’ in France,” from the BBC, January 14: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his view that the full burka is “not welcome” in France, as a debate continues on whether to ban it….

Sunday Flashback: David Horowitz’s Ultra-Popular “Alinsky, Beck, Satan, and Me” Series

In August, David Horowitz began NewsReal’s first series exploring Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. He explained how the modern Left had put Alinsky’s ideas into practice. Here’s the entire series for those who might not have been with us when it first ran:
Part 1: Alinsky, Beck, Satan, and Me
Part 2: Hell on Earth
Part 3: [...]

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Cass Sunstein’s Unrelenting Socialist Assault on the Constitution

Leftists keep arguing during the healthcare debate that healthcare is a “right.” The problem with this un-American line of thinking is that if there is a right, there is also a corresponding duty falling on someone else to provide it. (Cop arrests you, cop must Mirandize you. You have a right to vote so government must [...]

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