If you happen to live in Kabul or Jalalabad, Ghurian or Kandahar, then a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is, indeed, about Afghanistan. If you live anywhere else on the planet, a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is really about America — about American will, American purpose, American energy. How quickly the bright new dawn [...]
If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.” Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about Islam and the Afghan people. Cynicism, however, is the defining feature of Obama speeches. This one was no different: from its use of the United [...]
The Obama administration is using a nonprofit group to help make America more like socialist Europe, according to video aired on the Glenn Beck Program.
So says no less an authority than former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.
In Paris a few months ago, Dean described Organizing for America (OFA), as “a new innovation from Obama.” He [...]
Dean Obama – Victor Davis Hanson – The Corner on National Review Online.
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) abandoned its de facto “social justice” criterion, but ideological indoctrination remains.
As we all know from the mainstream media coverage of the Rifqa case, a Muslim father would never — never — call for the death of one of his children for leaving Islam! Why, it would be absolutely unheard of! If only Lamine Yansané’s father, El Hadj Aboubacar Yansané, could…
Comment about Iranian player gets Los Angeles Clippers’ announcers suspended.
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative think tanks that have offered dissenting views on what until recently was called—without [...]
Depending on our fellow man’s generosity is a dangerous proposition.
Back in July, Media Matters scolded conservative columnists George Will and Mark Steyn for making “false claims” about global warming:
In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will repeated National Review Online columnist Mark Steyn’s false claim that “[i]f you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating [...]
