If it’s a day ending in “y,” that means it’s time for more crappy political advice from the Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart. Beinart’s kind of a one-trick pony on the subject—I’ve noted before how, no matter the situation, he advises Republicans not to govern like conservatives lest they face certain electoral doom (the right electoral strategy, coincidentally, happens to be to govern exactly like Peter Beinart would).
Elena Kagan: A Cookie-Cutter Leftist Nominee
May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s official: Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Barack Obama’s second nominee to the US Supreme Court. Today on the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart revisits Kagan’s anti-military zealotry over “don’t ask, don’t tell”—unsurprisingly, it doesn’t bother him enough to oppose her confirmation (though he does offer an intriguing nugget about administration allies offering to help [...]
Peter Beinart: The Supreme Court Needs More Moms
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It looks like we need another refresher on what to look for in a potential Supreme Court justice. At the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart has stumbled upon the idea that what Barack Obama really needs to do is nominate a mother:
First, because female justices, on average, will be more sensitive to the problems women face. [...]
From the Wrtitings of David Horowitz: April 4, 2010
April 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So it was a welcome email I received from a friend the other day containing an Iraq News Network interview with British Laborite, progressive, Saddam ally and hero of such letwing websites as Counterpunch.org and CommonDreams.org, which should settle once and for all whether there are large numbers of pro-terrorist leftists [...]
The Teenagers Have Stolen the Credit Card – and Gotten Themselves Elected
March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Don’t spend money you don’t have” and “distinguish between essentials and frills” are lessons just about everybody learns at some point in their lives, whether from a basic economics course or from one’s parents explaining that a credit card is not magic.
Why, then, can’t Congress and the White House figure it out?
At the Daily Beast, [...]
mcCHRYSTAL’s METHod of war:
January 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The enemy will never submit to anything other than Islam or to our deadly force. It’s not surprising that General McChrystal was hand picked by Obama, a man who isn’t comfortable with the word “victory.” We haven’t even begun to fight against Jihad and this “soldier” doesn’t have any more fight left in him. What a disgrace.
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“Profiling” Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word
January 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hot off the heels of his brilliant case against considering the War on Terror a “war,” the Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart argues against conservative calls for racial & religious profiling in the wake of the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack, since profiling is “not only ugly, but counterproductive”:
With Pavlovian predictability, right wing pundits greet terror [...]
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Obama: Raising the White Flag to America’s Terrorists
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For al Qaeda and other terrorists across the globe, Obama is the gift that just keeps on giving. The fanatical Muslim terrorists who are intent on wiping out every man woman and child that doesn’t accept Allah as God was just handed another victory by the President of the United States.
In response [...]
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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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Peter Beinart: The Opposite of Rousing – The Daily Beast
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The goals were narrow, and delivered without regard to America’s moral obligation to Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on Obama’s missed opportunity.The best that can be said about President Obama’s West Point speech is that it was civil. Obama did not accuse opponents of the Afghan surge of appeasement; he did not imply that he has a [...]
