April 5, 2011

Another one bites the dust

Curious, isn't it, how many of Sarah Palin's MSM critics have undergone significant career setbacks in the past year. The cool people, the smart people, the ones in the know. One after another, heading for the exits.The latest is Katie Couric. Then t...

October 31, 2010

Parcel Bombs Revisited

Fortunately, the Yemeni parcel bombs intended for American Jews failed to reach their targets.  And I wonder again, as I wondered before, if everything is rosy between Al Qaeda headquarters and the Yemeni franchise.  Headquarters can't be p...

February 13, 2010

Curious omissions from the Olympic opening ceremony

The so-called "Cultural Segment" of the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games featured a giant bear, killer whales, maple leafs, a Druidic ballet among the towering Douglas Firs, totem poles, golden fields of prairie wheat,...

January 27, 2010

Al Qaeda's internal politics

Recently, I asked, why hadn't we heard from Osama Bin Laden after the Christmas Day bombing attempt?  Did he approve or disapprove? Doesn't the rise of al Qaeda in Yemen inevitably mean rivalry within the jihadist movement?Bin Laden has now spok...

January 19, 2010

When Terrorists Have a Falling Out

Forty years ago, violent radical groups wanted to destroy America, but they ended up destroying themselves...with a little help from the FBI.We have faced down zealots before. Think of the passionate uprisings now consigned to the history books. Wher...

January 14, 2010

Trouble at Organizing for America

Politico reports that "Organizing for America," the Obama campaign organization that is supposed to muster grass-roots support for the President's program, is coming under fire from Democrats and disillusioned supporters. The article quotes...

January 14, 2010

Obama and Haiti

As always, the world relies on the U.S. to get to Haiti "the firstest with the mostest." This provides thankful reassurance that when Obama remarked at the UN: "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation," or when ...

January 11, 2010

Blood for Oil Chronicles

Remember "Blood for Oil?" Of course you do. But here's a quick refresher courtesy of Gore Vidal, who really connected the dots for us back in October 2002 by writing in The Nation that the May 2001 "National Energy Policy report, ...

November 20, 2009

When is it cool to bomb a courthouse?

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November 9, 2009

Bringing the War Home

"Bringing the War Home." That's what left-wing anti-Vietnam-war terrorists called their violent domestic bombing campaign. In addition to bombing the Pentagon, a radical group called the Weathermen was involved in a failed effort to murder ...

October 30, 2009

Obama's astroturf roots are withering

Organizing for America, the supposedly grassroots movement that morphed out of the Obama campaign, is the subject of a piece in The New Republic. Another Obama astroturf operation falters under scrutiny."OFA was supposed to be a new kind of perm...

September 21, 2009

Obama's WPA?

Of course, some folks are just fine with the idea of taxpayer money supporting Obama's political agenda. In February, photographer Cara Phillips blogged, that the "art world is a-twitter with stories about the possible resurrection of the depres...

May 19, 2009

Thought for the day

Progressives like to joke about Cheney's marksmanship, but they were aiming for Bush, Cheney and Yoo and they hit Pelosi instead....

April 23, 2009

Dear Leader Inspects Model Factory on Earth Day

State News wire service, dateline April 23, 2009 - Yesterday the Dear Leader continued his tireless work on behalf of the people of the Democratic Republic. He traveled almost two thousand miles from Washington and back to visit the Model Factory at ...

April 17, 2009

A glimpse into a disturbing psyche

There used to be rules. Rules about what a gentlemen would say about a lady. Even when we stopped being gentlemen and ladies, emancipated feminists would condemn any man who publicly threatened violence to women, who spoke of them in degrading and of...

March 31, 2009

Obama and compulsory service

"One can applaud" the Obama administration's promotion of volunteerism, writes Ronald Goldfarb at The Hill's Pundits blog,"and at the same time ask..... [w]hy not a uniform requirement of national service for every 18-year-old or high ...

March 20, 2009

Obama wants you to pledge loyalty to him tomorrow

They have taken a pledge of loyalty to Obama, and they say they are coming tomorrow for yours. Organizing for America, the Obama-for-President campaign morphed into Obama-for-Maximum-Leader army, will hit the streets for their "Pledge Proje...

March 18, 2009

The Knock on the Door

A sitting President of the United States is "organizing a political organization loyal to him, bound by a pledge, outside the government and existing party apparatus. The historical precedents are ominous." What is so ominous about an organ...

December 4, 2008

Harper wins temporary reprieve

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, facing the downfall of his government in a non-confidence motion, has been granted a temporary postponement by Governor-General Michaëlle Jean. Parliament has been prorogued -- that is, suspended -- u...

December 3, 2008

Canada's Conservative government faces challenge to its control

The Canadian political scene is usually pretty placid. Canadians are famously more likely to take to the streets after a hockey game than a disputed election.Prime Minister Stephen Harper has held power since February 2006 not only on the streng...

September 14, 2008

Alaska, the 'welfare state'

Alaska "is essentially a welfare state taking money from the federal government," the fiercely partisan Paul Begala fumed on CNN.Michael Kinsley, writing in Time, accuses the "good citizens of Sarah Palin's Alaska" of "leech[...

July 17, 2008

Israel weaker, Hezb'allah stronger

What do Islamic radicals think when Western-style governments show their soft side? Just look at the reaction to the recent prisoner and body swap between Israel and Hezbollah, in which Israel received the bodies of two murdered soldiers and rel...

June 23, 2008

Blood for Oil okay by Blitzer?

Wolf Blitzer wants to know "should the Iraqis be selling oil to the United States at a discounted price?"  On Sunday's "Late Edition" on CNN  he asked if the U.S. should get Iraqi oil at a discou...

April 23, 2008

Free speech in Canada

Two heated public debates are taking place north of the 49th parallel these days, and broadly speaking, both debates pit progressives against conservatives. The funny thing is that the progressives are illustrating how it is possible to believe two m...

January 29, 2006

Oprah and Fictitious Non-fiction

'My next guest was used also in worshipping the devil, participated in human sacrifice rituals and cannibalism,' Oprah Winfrey told her audience in a show aired in May of 1989. Oprah didn't say, 'My next guest alleges she was used in worshipping the ...

January 21, 2006

Canada's Conservatives and the bumpy path to power

Stephen Harper and his Conservative party may manage a victory at the polls in the Canadian election this Monday, but this electoral win won't necessarily translate into a Tory government for Canada. The Tories could win the most seats but still...

April 1, 2005

Mike Malloy, ace reporter

Mike Malloy, Air America's evening slot radio host,аmarked the first anniversary of the radical radio station by getting a major story wrong. Malloy is convinced that America is a fascist state and every night he stands vigil, hyperventilating into h...

March 6, 2005

Thirty-five years ago today

March 6th marks the thirty—fifth anniversary of the Manhattan town house explosion that killed radical activists Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins. Oughton, Gold and Robbins were all members of the Weather Underground, a radical of...

February 21, 2005

Out with the old slogan, in with the new

Critics of the Bush Administration are divided between those who tend to view Republicans as part of an ultra—secret, ultra—capable military—industrial cabal who control the world and everything in it, and those who view the Preside...

February 6, 2005

Ward Churchill, chapter two

Did anyone ask the officials of Hamilton College to produce the death threats they allegedly received over Ward Churchill's scheduled appearance? Did any journalist check with the local police to see if they had been consulted? Or must we take the de...

February 1, 2005

Ward Churchill, Bill O'Reilly, and freedom of speech

Ward Churcill has attained sudden fame as the author of an essay claiming that the victims of 9/11 deserved their fate, because of their implication in America's Evil System. His speaking dates on campuses like Hamilton College in upstate New York ha...

November 7, 2004

Stop the presses! Kerry won

Journalist Greg Palast says that John Kerry won the election. If all the votes cast for Kerry in Ohio and New Mexico had been properly counted, writes Palast, Bush would have been the one giving the concession speech on Wednesday. To make h...

October 16, 2004

Northern exposure

The Fifth Estate is a newsmagazine program that airs on CBC TV, (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), a taxpayer—subsidized television station. Their season debut in mid—October was an "expose" of Dick Cheney.  Anyone famili...

September 12, 2004

An analysis of the typing skills of the forger

Blogosphere analysis of the Killian documents to date has focused on the typography of the documents and whether they adhere to military style. This article examines what formatting commands the typist used to create the document and what this says a...

September 7, 2004

We want Zell! We want Zell!

The New York Times says that Zell Miller is President Bush's 'new best friend.'   The Georgia Senator's speech, Richard W. Stephenson writes, has 'touched a chord among voters of all stripes by voicing doubts about Mr. Kerry's record on national...

September 4, 2004

Why Chris Matthews doesn't get it

Judging by his appearance on The Daily Show Friday night, Chris Matthews still doesn't understand why his treatment of Senator Zell Miller, and his earlier roasting of Michelle Malkin offended so many people. Matthews told Daily Show host Jon Stewar...

August 22, 2004

Knaves or fools?

So are they knaves or fools at CNN? CNN's senior political analyst Bill Schneider exonerates John Kerry of having accused his fellow soldiers of raping and beheading innocent Vietnamese civilians. While Kerry is quoted in the soon—to—be b...

May 19, 2004

Rumsfeld and the Civil War

As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld looked at the faces of the young soldiers before him, you could see him hesitate for an instant. Should he mention the Civil War? Should he draw the comparisons which seemed to obvious to him? After all, many o...

March 9, 2004

Don't Look Back: Move On to the Next Cause

Mike Farrell, best known for his role as doctor BJ Hunnicutt in the 1970s television series M*A*S*H, is back in the news in California. Farrell is an ardent opponent of the death penalty, and this month's cause celebre is convicted killer Kevin ...