No, Sean, Carter Isn’t Distancing Himself from Obama


Mediaite is calling Sean Hannity to task for a misleading characterization of recent remarks from former President Jimmy Carter.  It seems Foreign Affairs recently warned that the worst-case scenario of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy was that the current president would end up looking like the thirty-ninth.  Naturally, Carter was none too thrilled about being [...]

GOP Senate race grows heated over Israel – latimes.com


In a dispute that commingles foreign policy and a quest for political advantage, U.S.-Israel relations have taken an unexpectedly central role in the California race for Senate.Rivals in the race for the Republican nomination are questioning whether former Rep. Tom Campbell is sufficiently supportive of Israel. They base their criticisms on his voting record, statements [...]

Ron Paul: I’d Love to Fund the Holocaust Museum, But That Would Make Me As Bad As Hitler!


Let’s get this over once and for all. Is Ron Paul anti-Semitic?
We know from the Congressman’s own writings that he believes the United States is controlled by a small, group of power-brokers intent on diminishing citizen civil rights and militarily manipulating the destinies of nations. We also know that Ron Paul believes one of the essential, [...]

Joe Klein Needs History Lesson in Progressivism


Poor Joe Klein.  He has such a thing against Glenn Beck that he can’t write a sentence about Beck that bears any resemblance to the truth.
In one of his latest rants on the Swampland blog, Joe claims:
In Beck’s lunatic lexicon, a progressive is a slow-motion communist
What Beck actually said is that progressives believe in evolutionary ‘progress’ [...]

The Ideological Rigidity of Ron Paul’s Economics


Part 1 of my Ron Paul essay received more attention than I expected. His supporters are intense, to say the least.
As stated in that article, there are many things about Paul to like. But his monetary policies and his political rigidity are not among them. I do not dismiss the importance of sound monetary policies. [...]

Ron Paul and the Protocols of the Neo-Con Elders


Congressman Ron Paul is a Trojan Horse in conservative America. Deluded by his unjustly-appropriated mantras, “Constitutional Conservative and Washington Outsider,” citizens seeking alternatives to politicians who have betrayed principles of fiscal and social conservatism, have dragged the Paulist edifice into their stronghold and reconsidered its potential. Rep. Paul’s triumph in the CPAC Straw Poll is [...]

A Day in the Life of a Coptic Christian in Egypt


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Attacks on the Christian-Coptic minority by incited Muslim mobs have become a way of life.

Rescuing the Founders from Their Paulestinian Hijackers


Crackpot Ron Paul and his disciples have wrapped themselves in the American flag so tightly you’d think they were direct descendants of Paul Revere.  Whether it’s Paul claiming to “advocate the same foreign policy the founding fathers would,” or his fans claiming he fathered the tea party movement (a claim tea partiers in Paul’s home [...]

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and Don’t Even Pretend to Be Fair- Part V: Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls


Why is the media touting public opinion polls about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” when it ignores public opinion polls on other controversial cultural issues?

CPAC Speaker Condemns CPAC


Among the overwhelming exuberance and numerous standing ovations accorded to conservative speakers at this week’s Conservative Political Action Committee gathering in D.C., there remained one hold-out.

Ryan Sorba, representing Young Americans For Freedom in California, was roundly booed from the minute he stepped up to the podium. And no wonder - Ryan started [...]