Winston Churchill once remarked that there was nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Perhaps that’s why he enjoyed being a conservative — it guaranteed he would frequently be a target.
Recently, I dodged my own political bullet when columnist Jack White smeared me as a “racist” in Time magazine. In fact, [...]
From the Writings of David Horowitz: February 5, 2010
February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Soros Billionaire Leftist Club Expands
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Even in these economically challenging times, super-wealthy leftist donors continue to build political infrastructure that they hope will survive and prosper in the future.
Research shows that art collector and retired plastics executive Stefan T. Edlis (pictured at right in above photo with his wife Gael Neeson) is a member of the ultra-secretive Democracy Alliance, a George Soros-led left-wing [...]
“Hey, Let’s Purify the Party from Party Purification. NOH8, haters!” Says Meghan McCain.
January 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ms. McCain: talk to me about how “creepy” ideological purity is when you wipe that dogmatic “NOH8” kiddie paint off your face. Your intellectual inconsistency is showing and it’s definitely not as cute as that airbrushed pap you’re so proud of.
In her current piece for The Daily Beast, she opines the latest in her [...]
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MotherJones.com Shamefully Blames Bush-Cheney for Haiti Disaster!
January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Theocracy of the Left or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atheist
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Perhaps it’s his accent, or the disaffected way he brushes his wispy hair from his face, but Christopher Hitchens is growing on me. Then again, it could simply be his latest piece in Newsweek, The Death of Theocracy, that has my heart all aflutter.
Hitchens, no stranger to religious debate, has trained his brazenly atheist sight [...]
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Where Are The Stories On What Pakistanis Actually Think About Drone Attacks?
January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The New York Times ran a short piece yesterday via Reuters news service which indicated that U.S. drone attacks in Afpak [Afghanistan and the Pakistani border] are “undermining efforts to deal with militancy.” A drone aircraft was reported to have killed 3 militants in a car traveling in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region. It also mentions [...]
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NewsReal Sunday: Secular Spirituality
January 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
One of the most common issues that I run up against with the NewsRealBlog community is my contention that spirituality is not the exclusive province of people of faith, but that secularists can experience the same feelings as well. On more than one occasion I’ve said that the feelings that I experience when looking at [...]
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Pro-Drug War Conservatives Need to Rethink, er, REMEMBER the Role of Government
December 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
At Pajamas Media today Mary Grabar, a thoughtful writer and an acquaintance, has an effective piece in response to a recent tragic death which has reopened an important issue that’s not discussed nearly enough:
A truly sad story about a 23-year-old Panama City man dying while being subdued by Bay County sheriff’s deputies has reawakened the [...]
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Ross Douthat: Did The Republicans Blunder On Health Care? – NYTimes.com
December 21, 2009 By 1 Comment
Yes, say Jonathan Chait and David Frum, in pre-mortems for the G.O.P.’s efforts to derail the Democratic bill. Chait argues that the Republicans could have sold moderate Democrats on a “vastly more limited” piece of legislation, if they’d been willing to compromise early in the process. Instead, by uniting in lockstep opposition and gambling that [...]
Lunch Break
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This piece is titled “Florrk.”
For more of Jacquie Dodes-Walter’s work click here.
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Lunch Break is NewsReal’s daily apolitical post. (We all need a break from this political stuff every now and then!) When commenting on Lunch Break posts do not start political, religious, or philosophical debates. In fact from now on any serious debating comments on [...]
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