The Washington Times reports something rather remarkable: Former Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry and five fellow black Democrats on the county council excoriated their party yesterday and endorsed Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a Republican, for U.S. Senate. "The [Democratic] Party... More

Our contributor Vasko Kohlmayer wrote an op—ed for the Baltimore Sun today criticizing the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. You might be a bit surprised by it, if you are now familiar with Vasko's other writings: President Bush has asserted that many of the detainees at Guantanamo... More

Michelle Malkin has the details on John F. Kerry's unbelievable statement at a campaign rally for Phil Angelides (the guy running against Arnold) yesterday in California. Captain's Quarters and many others are picking up on the story. Here is what Kerry said: 'You know, education, if you make the... More

That's the first half of a quote by Clint Eastwood about Flags of Our Fathers. Have you read or heard the balance of that statement — "...I cared about these three fellows, the headliners on the war—bond circus." The latter part of that quote wasn't included in many if not most... More

Gawker has spotted what looks a lot like a propaganda operation in the making from our friends at CBS News. CBS is on Craigslist [and] wants someone like you to interact with some dirty Arabs. Do you get nervous when you see a Muslim on an airplane? Have your opinions about Muslims changed since... More

That 39% decline in profits last quarter, coming after a string of bad news quarters and disastrous decline in its stock price, has finally started to hit the New York Times where it lives: in its new offices, which are about to become a lot more cramped than planned. The Times is building a... More

Our contributor Paul Jackson, in his day job as columnist for the Calgary Sun, writes of Canadian—American relations, and actually has words for praise for our diplomats and spokesmen. I've always found Canadian diplomats and top government officials tight—lipped and evasive, while... More

Patrick Fitzgerald filed a Motion In Limine yesterday to preclude Libby from presenting any evidence, making any comment or argument respecting the government's decision not to charge Richard Armitage, who did disclose Plame's name and position to at least two reporters (Robert Novak and Bob... More

Our chief political correspondent Richard Baehr will be interviewed tonight on BBC Radio Five at 9:45 PM Eastern, 6:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, commenting on the forthcoming election. The program can be heard live on the internet via a link here. More

It was announced late last week that Liberals were going to take to the airwaves again.  Not content to have a biased media in print and on cable and television newscasts, now something called Nova M will step in and fall into the void (it can't fill the void if there isn't one, right?) of the... More

Hollywood during World War ll. What an entirely different kind of brew Of manly men and women with courage. You couldn't stop or even discourage A Dietrich, with a Nazi price on her head, From joining Bob Hope and others who led The way overseas to entertain gals and guys Who were the real stars in... More

Well here we go. Apparently our warnings that politicians were using the global warming issue as a pretext to impose a whole array of new taxes was spot on. Today's UK Sun reports the British Parliament is considering a whole passel of new bills to impose new taxes to "fight" global... More

That's the only word for the glimpse into the mind of George Soros provided by Steve Croft of 60 Minutes in an interview broadcast last night. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light does an excellent job of highlighting and commenting on a partial transcript of the interview, concerning Soros'... More

Jeffrey Goldberg's Prisoners is a admirably written book that tries to give insight into the passions that motivate both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Occasionally the book departs from that arena, and one section in particular should give one qualms about Pakistan and its possession of... More

And the global warming beat goes on.... From the Scotsman: A RAFT of new green taxes on flights, cars and wasteful household appliances is being considered by ministers. In a leaked letter to the Chancellor, David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, has proposed a package of environmental taxes... More

In his January 31, 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush delivered an aphorism aimed at his Iraq war critics that is even more timely these days, as the negative drumbeat intensifies.  It is a perfect riposte that hits the likes of the NYT and columnists such as the WaPo's Tom Ricks,... More

No, this isn't a discussion of homosexuality. It is about Hollywood today not wanting to talk about 1940s Hollywood stars who served in the military and who both entertained the troops and went on War Bonds fund raising tours. Such a discussion would get people to think about the decided lack... More

Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard wonders what on earth is wrong with these people? Lefty blogger Billmon's Whiskey Bar puts Wolf Blitzer in blackface. Answer: a core of racism smothered under a layer of self—righteousness, and guarded by presumed immunity from the media. Thomas Lifson  10 30... More

Our contributor Paul Jackson, Canadian jounalist extrordinnaire, wrote today for the Calgary Sun of a bit of Liberal Part history of which I was rather ignorant. It seems that at least a major faction of the Liberal Party and its leaders have been anti—Isarel and anti—Semitic for a long... More

The left and Robert Fisk trot out the tired "uranium based" weapons mantra; this time criticizing the IDF for supposedly using munitions that had spread radioactivity across Lebanon's battlefields.  Perhaps realizing that the depleted uranium mythology has been thoroughly debunked many times... More

From the UK Times: The BBC is placing Christianity at the heart of primetime entertainment for the first time, with programmes examining faith and spirituality set to replace copycat 'lifestyle' shows. However, the first fruits of the born—again fervour could prove controversial. Rageh... More

Death of a President, the controversial movie which depicts the assassination of George W Bush had a miserable opening weekend.   According to www.boxofficemojo.com,  Death opened on 91 screens nationwide and earned only an estimated $167,000, or $1,935 per screen.  Bush... More

Dr. Mary Davenport, whose article on embryonic stem cell reearch and Michael J. Fox's ads drew much attention, will be interviewed Monday morning on WHO Radio AM 1020, in Des Moines, Iowa, on the Jan Mikelson Show. The interview will begin at 10:20 AM, Central Standard time, and will be available... More

It is almost two years to the day since I last saw Red. It was October 29th 2004, one day after the Sox had clinched the World Series. Red was appearing at a local Chinese restaurant promoting a book, Let Me Tell You a Story, written with John Feinstein. I wanted to see Red in person to say thanks... More

The BBC's Radio 5 (which plans to include our own Richard Baehr in its coverage of the upcoming US Congressional elections) has uncovered another example of incompetence, waste, corruption, and ineffectiveness in a UN—based environmental initiative. Ministers announced that last year's... More

News For Those Who Don't Know If They're Comin' Or Goin'. While some hailed NYC's OK of transgender use of public restrooms as a victory, an Italian opposition MP and former showgirl (and ally of Silvio Berlusconi)has expressed outrage after meeting a transgender colleague in the parliament's... More

Though Powerline commented on this, I believe they missed a key quotation and the import behind it. Here is the quotation: We just have to realize that because of the way that the politics of the Middle East has developed for the last 60 years, that ideology of hope and a better future has not... More

Oh woe is me, oh woe, oh woe. To vote or not, I just don't know. To stay at home would really show Those idiots in Washington where to go.   But go they would, then where would I be? Between 'you know who' and the deep blue sea, Swimming upstream helplessly, The world going 'you know where'... More

I happened upon an interesting, quick read by Sarah Viren of the Houston Chronicle, about Muslim youths in America and there was one part in particular that points towards one of the main reasons/openings for Muslim youths — living in any Western culture — to end up on the... More

Our friends at Investors Business Daily continue to publish one of the very best collections of editorial comment anywhere, and they demonstrate that here once again. Bill Clinton is shilling for California's Poposition 87 alternative energy boondoggle and using Brazil as an example of a country... More

People who should know better are beginning to say foolish things about Iraq being better off under Saddam than it is today. Ray Robison has some video that they should watch. Thomas Lifson  10 28 06 More

To—date, War on Terror combattant casualties amount to 3,049 Coalition dead and 44,779 [US] wounded from Iraq, plus 497 Coaliton dead, and 5,729 [US] wounded in Afghanistan. Those total 3,546 dead and  50,508  [US] wounded, or total casualties of 54,054, plus  other Coalition... More

The Tehran Times carries an essay (via Ummah News Links) pleading for the creation of what the author calls a "New Folk Islam." It decires the tendency of urban intellectuals to look down on their simpler rural bretheren in the Ummah, because it hurts the "unity" of Islam. However, in general, the... More

Rahm Emanuel, Congressman from Illinois 5th Congressional District is reportedly overworked and underfed (now 14 pounds gone off an already lean frame). As Chair of the DCCC, he has been running around the country for a year, recruiting candidates, raising money, and developing campaign messages... More

Gerard Baker of the UK Times offers the sort of viewpoint one rarely finds in the European press: decidedly pro—American. In this column, he sees the difficulties in Iraq as minor, and the strength of America as lasting. The whole thing is worth a read, but the following passages struck me in... More

Julie Hirschfeld Davis has a nice portrait of some of Nancy's Pelosi's background in the Baltimore Sun. Her father Thomas D'Alessandro, Jr. was a legendary Baltimore mayor and Congressman, and more importantly, head of a political machine. It turns out her mother may be even a more formidable... More

As most readers know well, there has been a disgraceful situation developing at Minneapolis—St. Paul International Airport, where Somali taxis drives (who comprise a large share of taxi drivers locally) are refusing to carry passengers who bring with them wine or other alcohol. A friend of a... More

Polls are not necessarily to be trusted. But is certainly interesting that polls in the UK show Conservatives ahead. Tony Blair has been a loyal ally, but his replacements in the Labour Party would be bad news in power. Hat tip: Joe Crowley More

We noted the unusual coincidence of nonprofit, supposedly non—partisan CAIR sponsoring ads about Muslims disapproving of terror in Minnesota, where Muslim Keith Ellison is running for Congress. Today, our contributor Patrick Poole publishes an article on Front Page Magazine about the... More

Dr. Mary Davenport, whose AT article on Michael J. Fox's claims on stem cell research attracted wide attention, today co—authors an op—ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, advocating passage of California's Proposition 85, requiring parental notification for abortions performed on the... More

The New York Times has outdone itself in twisted victimology. In reporting on the efforts of Democrat candidates to stimulate black turnout, it manages to blame Republicans for the results of a Democrat and media—hyped propaganda blitz that is now backfiring. ...there are worries among... More

John Cook of Radar has put a name on the mysterious person who seems to have set up the bogus Stopsexpredators blog that was instrumental in outing Mark Foley in a premature October Surprise op. The Human Rights Campaign was quick to disavow and fire the (at the time) unnamed worker for it. But... More

Talk about aiming your fire at your own troops! Congressman Waxman attacks the Justice Department for a claim made not by the Administration, but rather by the leftwing Nation (undoubtedly helped by Soros' minions who are working to undercut AIPAC): A top congressional Democrat called on the... More

If the polls are right Americans will vote for national military defeat on November 7 —— which would be very stupid indeed. Question: Are voters really going for defeat? I just don't believe it. Americans were willing to support  fourteen years of fighting in Vietnam, with twenty... More

France's Foreign Minister is changing his opinion on Isarel's separation barrier. The European Jewish Press reports: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste—Blazy declared last week he has changed his opinion on Israel's controversial separation barrier in light of its drastic effect on... More

In the bizarre moral universe  that permeates any discussion of Israel one finds that most unmilitary concept —— disproportionate response. THis is nothing more than a declaration that the attacker has the right to call the shots (literally), set the rules and determine the... More

The next time some British politician talks about how awful Guantanamo Bay is, it is time to remind him of some scenes depicted in the movie Exodus, about the British military detention camps set up on Cyprus after WW II to hold Jewish refugees caught trying to go to Palestine. As long as they... More

MoveOn.org cites approvingly an attack on Jews as dual loyalists in the far left blog Counterpunch. This essay describes many of the familiar neo—conservatives as having "dual loyalties," making policy decisions in the interests of the State of Israel as much as the United States. A Rose... More

That old and rightly discredited canard about rape victims is being recirculated by the most senior Muslim cleric in Australia. Richard Kerbaj reports for The Australian: THE nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on... More

The Washington Times publishes a superb op—ed today by John R. Lott Jr. and Bradley A Smith on Air America and the absolute mess that Senators McCain and Feingold and the US Supreme Court have foisted upon our democratic republic. The starting point is the question of whether or not Air... More

A tsunami of outrage is sweeping across the globe over photographs of German soldiers posing with a human skull. Calling for an immediate investigation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised severe punishment for all involved. No doubt there soon will be demands to abort the whole mission... More

Yet a third raid is reported on Sadr's forces: BAGHDAD, Oct. 25, 2006  "Special Iraqi army forces, aided by coalition advisors, captured a death squad leader and three people believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of a U.S. soldier in separate raids in the Iraqi capital," Sadr City... More

The Washington Post profiles what it calls, with a typical postmodern touch of irony, an "atheist evangelist", Sam Harris. There are really just two possibilities for Sam Harris. Either he is right and millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews are wrong. Or Sam Harris is wrong and he is so going to... More

AT has received yet another letter of complaint regarding Alyssa Lappen's article "Islam's Useful Idiots", published on October 23, from one of the speakers at the meeting on which she reported and commented. Here follows the letter from Nick Fielding, formerly of the UK Sunday Times, and... More

Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom is not swept up in the Obama wave. He voted for him and quickly regretted it: Within a year, I recognized him for the fake he is. Voting down the highly qualified Justice Roberts was the tipoff. Even the Washington Post endorsed Roberts. It was the calculated move of... More

The Washington Post runs an article by two of its prime DNC megaphones (Weissman and Eggen) accusing Arizona Congressman Renzi of self—dealing in a land transaction. (A brief  respite from the paper's naked  and failing effort to defeat Senator Allen in nearby Virginia.) You have to... More

The mysterious blog spot (stopsexpredators) that first reported Mark Foley's original ambiguous emails to a former page, has been tracked to Human Rights Campaign, a purportedly non—partisan group that  claims to advance the interests of lesbian,gay , bi—sexual and transgendered... More

Our frequent contributor Noel Sheppard has an important post at Newsbusters. Assume for a moment that a conservative advocacy group was accused of voter registration fraud four weeks before the upcoming elections, and had been accused of similar activities in 2004. Further imagine that this group... More

The EU's political leaders behaved just as their diplomatic posture requires. Be "nice" and polite to Russia's Putin, and, of course he would reciprocate. Unfortunately for them, Putin is not a man for whom the opinions of polite society count more than his own self—interest. So they are... More

Jerry Brown, former governor and current mayor of Oakland, is running for California Attorney General. But if he wins as expected (with the support of talk show host Michael Savage!), there may be quite a battle in court. From the Political Vanguard:Jerry Brown is not qualified to be Attorney... More

I see that Anne Appelbaum of the Washington Post has a similar reaction to my own at the sight of veiled women. Just this month a Michigan judge dismissed a small—claims court case filed by a Muslim woman because she refused to remove her full—face veil while testifying. Critics call... More

Matt May has posted a review of Andrew Sullivan's new book The Conservative Soul, and uses a lengthy quote from Yours Truly as a rebuttal to some of Sullivan's argument. Thomas Lifson   10 25 06 More

Yesterday's campaign appearance by Michael J. Fox in support of Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth made for a heart—wrenching sight. Watching two severely handicapped people — Duckworth lost both her legs in Iraq — demagogue an issue (stem sell research)... More

We received a rebuttal from Alexis Y. Debat to Alyssa Lappen's article "Islam's Useful Idiots", More

See for yourself. CNN Headline News reports on Harold Ford, Jr.'s campaign adviser's claim (in response to a newspaper's report that he never passed the bar examination) that he "never held himself out to be a lawyer". Then, on CNN, Harold Ford states "I'm a lawyer." More

Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator In Jolly Old England where abortion is an everyday thing, burning the bodies of aborted babies is causing an outrage.  "One local woman, who asked not to be named, said after the heartache of deciding to have an abortion she was... More

One might expect the worst with a title like that, but the current holder of that office, thanks to a recently—elected conservative governemnt in Sweden, is quite a surprise. The Times of London describes her as, not only black, beautiful and Muslim; she is also firmly against the wearing of... More

There has been much buzz about the admission  of New York Times 'public editor' Byron Calame that the paper should not have published information on the SWIFT program that tracked financial transactions of terrorists. The new information food chain was in display. First off the mark, bloggers... More

And the trouble is for Sadr. It looks like we are showing the Sadr militia we've run out of patience. Iraq the Model reports: Looks like there's something big going on in Baghdad to night.Flares are filling the skies and fighter jets are striking targets in the city. In the last 30 minutes I... More

The New York Times has until Wednesday to provide a federal District Court with the names of its confidential sources for its stories written by Nicholas Kristof suggesting Steven J. Hatfill was the source of the anthrax attacks in the U.S. The order was entered on the 20th of the month... More

The Council on American Islamic Relations is a nonprofit, non—partisan group. So it must be purely a coincidence that it is to begin airing television spots in Minnesota affirming that most Muslims are against terrorism during a Monday night Minnesota Vikings game. Keith Ellison, a Black... More

While reading Bill O'Reilly's new book, Culture Warrior, I came across this gem, starting on page. 70: To prove my point, let's turn again to holy writ for the secular—progressive movement: the pages of the New York Times. Every Sunday, a man named Randy Cohen writes a column in the paper's... More

"In 1999, espionage author Christopher Andrew revealed that Soviet archives smuggled by defector Vasili Mitrokhin described an unnamed KGB agent recruited from California Democratic Party circles in the 1970s." Fedora, the well—known researcher who posts at Free... More

Faithful readers must have noticed many hat tips to Larwyn, a discerning reader of many blogs, who takes the time to email the day's best commentary to other websites. Over the years, she has earned the gratitutde and respect of many a poster, including this one. Finally, Larwyn is blogging,... More

Spain and Morocco have commissioned a new formal study — a second one following an earlier 1996 plan that was dropped — for a plan to build a rail tunnel across the Straits of Gibraltar, linking North Africa directly to Euorpe. The tunnel would be roughly 25 miles long. Given the... More

There is a history of Democrats outsourcing our government policy to children (also known as greats moments of Democrat oratory). See Jimmy Carter (on the prospects of nuclear war and disarmament): MR. CARTER: I think, to close out this discussion, it would be better to put into perspective what... More

Not yet ready for prime time. That's the only conclusion I can make about the comments of New York's  Republican candidate for the Senate. The New York Daily News reports, Hillary Clinton's Republican challenger is getting personal and it's not pretty: He says the senator used to be ugly... More

A BBC article says $170 million in food aid will be needed to feed 2 million people in southern Afghanistan this winter. That works out to a per—person price equal to the street price of one gram of heroin. Since the food shortages are being blamed on the cultivation of opium poppies instead... More

Continuing its policy of stepping up to the plate by stages in matters of military security, Japan has announced it will begin patrolling sea lanes for North Korean ships which might contain contraband cargo. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, reports: The government intends to... More

According to the AP, The late Oriana Fallaci, an avowed atheist and extraordinary journalist, has left most of her books and notes to a pontifical university in Rome because of her admiration for Pope Benedict XVI, a school official said Saturday. The collection, which includes manuscripts as old... More

Let us now praise UN envoys when they do the right thing.  UN representative Jan Pronk is being expelled from the Sudan for telling the truth about its murderous activities on his blog (according to the Washington Post. Among his blog points: As said above, the Government is taking some... More

Senator Barack Obama appeared on Larry King the other night. You can read the transcript here and view the interview here. Obama's comments to King are very telling of how he views American foreign policy.  He calls our war with the Taliban in Afghanistan "proportional" (is this in... More

Some of the best war news has come to us through the milblogs and imbedded reporters. And they have helped us see beyond the terrible coverage in the mainstream media. So what does the Pentagon do? Hamper them , that's what by a series of regulations and restrictions that is cutting off this flow... More

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia and grew up in the Netherlands, where she became an extraordinarily talented (and beautiful) commentator on the biggest problem confronting Europe: How to survive Islamic totalitarianism (as she calls it). The Dutch got very nervous about Hirsi Ali, even after... More

Asra Nomani (a Daniel Pearl friend and colleague) writes in the Washington Post of the abuse of women by some Muslim men and the culture /worldview it creates When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options. First, he should remind her of "the importance of following... More

A California judge has tossed out an indecent exposure charge against a woman because the law, he says, only applies to men. Via ABC News: Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who "exposes his person." "It's gender specific,"... More

Blogger and AT contributor Teri O'Brien catches the hypocrisy of the man all but annointed the first black president. Maybe with his superior intelligence he can explain to me how he reconciles the suggestion we should send troops to Darfur because '[t]here are certain things that are not... More

Apparently the learning curve for terrorists [let's face it, all terrorism is about power — not religion] is more of an arc. Quote: Mexico Gangs Displaying Severed Heads VILLA MADERO, Mexico — The drug lords at war in central Mexico are no longer content with simply killing their... More

Professor Paul Kengor's new book on President Reagan draws attention to a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D—Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy... More

The Democratic Party is one sick puppy. When betraying national security secrets becomes an active goal of a major political party, we are approaching a kind of civil war. This is not good.  Prominent Leftists like Soros and Chomsky seem to passionately believe that national defeat in Iraq is... More

I saw the "adult" modern war movie Flag of Our Fathers, (reviewed today by AT's Douglas Hanson) produced by Clint Eastwood. It is a great, sophisticated movie about the people who raised the flag on Mt. Surabachi on Iwo Jima and became national icons with their famous photo, even though this was... More

Dr Sanity hits one out of the park.   Clarice Feldman   10 21 06   More

Two French Total executives,Bernard de Combret and Christopher de Margerie, scion of the Tattinger dynasty, are apparently being held accountable for their roles in the Oil For food scandal and one of them, Christophe de Margerie , may as a result  be unable to take up his position as the... More

In response to 'The Islam Conundrum' published yesterday on AT, while the essayist's heart is in the right place — the critique of Islam and its relegation to a political ideology as opposed to a religion that deserves recognition by the West, the author goes terribly wrong. The author makes... More

Reading Power Line led me to this essay by famed war correspondent and author Robert S. Elegant. It is a lengthy read and for that reason I have excerpted a few quotes from start to finish to inspire you to persevere and read the whole thing. For those who won't take the time, the quotes below... More

In news announced Thursday, but amazingly not covered by the media, a jury has found an illegal immigrant guilty under the human smuggling law in Arizona.  The immigrant was convicted for allowing himself to be smuggled illegally into the United States.  This is an historic first. ... More

Julia Gorin, conservative writer, has put together a demo video of a conservative comedy/commentary show, meant to rival the likes of The Daily Show. It is posted on YouTube. She writes that she is shopping it to television outlets. Given the orientation of most people int he entertainment... More

Fox has identified Hanauer as the Intel committee member suspended upon suspicion of leaking the National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. From Sourcewatch, here is what we know of him: At the Department of Defense, Larry Hanauer worked at the "Israel/Syria/Lebanon desk ... Near East... More

We know that Senator Kerry while still a reserve officer, negotiated with the enemy during the Viet Nam War and that Senator Rockefeller traveled to Syria before the war in Iraq to tip off our enemies about our battle plans. Now we know that Senator Kennedy  offered help to the Soviets.... More

The last few days have had some encouraging Senate polls for Republicans, while House polls are still mixed. Zogby has Talent up 3% in Missouri, Allen up 3% in Virginia,and Corker up 7% in Tennessee. He also has Kean up 2% in New Jersey where the New Republic exposes the smell of scandal emanating... More

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial today on our small military budget. The key line is the following: "More than half of the fiscal 2006 budget deficit of 1.9% of GDP can thus be attributed solely to this [Administration's] rebuilding of American defenses after the Clinton... More

Christian Streiff, who left Airbus after proposing a major plan to save the company, is favored to become the next CEO of PSA Peugeot, the second largest automaker in Europe after VW. Peugeot is highly respected for the quality of its engineering, though American consumers are generally unfamiliar... More

When the political world is in misery, (In this season that's all I can see), I pull out an escapist DVD, And now it's Jack Bauer and me.   Each heart stopping moment takes me To a place of  impossible dreams Where Jack  thwarts international treachery With the incredible CTU... More

The power to tax is the power to destroy. The internet has proven rather a bother to many of those with power, allowing anyone with a computer to reach a worldwide audience. Now, our friend David Kaspar, of Davidsmedienkritik, a fine site keeping track of media and events in Gemrany, brings news of... More

Democratic candidate Keith Ellison for the 5th District House of Representatives seat in Minnesota has some areas of his past — both recent and longer term — that he and the Democratic Party would prefer the public not come to the foreground. Frontpage Magazine reports that... More

Over the past few days, Venezuelan analysts have commented over the uneven horse race taking place at the United Nations, where Venezuela and Guatemala are competing to take a seat as one of the ten non—permanent members of the UN Security Council, next to permanent members Britain,... More

Julia Angwin of the Wall Street Journal writes a devastating analysis ($link) of the billion dollar boo—boo Pinch Sulzberger made when he bought the Boston Globe and related properties. When the New York Times Co. bought the Boston Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion, the family—run New... More

That's apparently what the New York Times—owned Boston Globe advises in an editorial today. The soundest way to resist the spread of Iran's influence —— which worries Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the smaller Gulf states as much as it does Israel —— would be for... More

I have to say "nice try" on this but Rick Moran misses a few key points about Reynolds in his article.  First, Reynolds is neither a Republican nor a conservative —— he is a libertarian who to the best of my knowledge has never disclosed a party affiliation (other than to say he is... More

The Chicago Tribune reports, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday that he would not return campaign contributions raised by an Arab—American organization even though an internal investigation determined the state employee who heads the group organized a Blagojevich fundraiser on state... More

This is one more example regarding the delusions that international experts feed the world. From Vital Perspective: Former IAEA Director—General Hans Blix says that President Bush's nuclear policies are responsible for worldwide nuclear proliferation. In an interview in the German daily Die... More

A few days ago environmentalist fear—mongers sounded another dire prediction. This time they tell us that the clean up costs resulting from global warming will come to several trillion dollars a year by 2100. But everything considered this is actually great news. Only a couple of months ago,... More

Today in The Hill, Clinton Advisor and Republican fair—weather consultant Dick Morris prophesied 'A [2008] Hillary Clinton candidacy would obviously help them to regain the fierce loyalty of their base, but she would also bring in millions of single women voters who would support her... More

And thanks to Michelle Malkin for posting this very flattering comment and audio link from Rush. RUSH: I knew I was going to do it. I left out some blogger names that I routinely read. One of them is Michelle Malkin, and she's just fabulous and extremely valuable. The American Thinker, which I... More

ABC's Brian Ross is now squeezing the last little drops out of the Mark Foley IMs—to—teenage—boys story. The Democrats know they must hold down GOP voter turnout less than three weeks from now. We know how they operate. They're going to drop more stinkbombs just before the... More

Russ Smith reports in the New York Press that New York Times writer Alison Leigh Cowan topped even fellow Times writer Adam Nogourney in giving a warped and distorted picture of the truth in 2006 election "reporting." Here are examples of events as reported and distorted via the Times'... More

I'm tired of hearing Jimmy Carter try and tell us all how we should do things!Or, in the words of Katie Couric's daughter 'Who made him the boss of us?' After all: Jimmy Carter IS the man who gave us Jihadist Iran! Jimmy Carter IS the man who gave us a Nuclear North Korea! Jimmy Carter IS the man... More

Jihadists admit they are killing for the the camera and for the Democrats. A new twist for the "Party of Death". From behind the Times Select wall: But while there may be no single hand coordinating the upsurge in violence in Iraq, enough people seem to be deliberately stoking the fires there... More

Boston Globe editorial on North Korea: let the Koreans have everything they want. "The fallacy of sanctions" concludes: Only America can grant the package of energy supplies, economic assistance, and security assurances that the North consistently demands as the price for divesting itself of its... More

Men who seized an Italian journalist in Afghanistan offer to exchange him for a convert to Christianity who fled to Italy. The Italian they seized is a convert to Islam. Welcome to the ummah. Now beg for your life from your co—religionists. Hat tip: Joe Crowley Thomas Lifson  10 18 06 More

China has joined the growing ranks of countries that are thinking of or have erected fences/barriers to either imprison their citizens or to keep outsiders from illegally entering.  Like Saudi Arabia, for example. And so far, not a peep from the UN nor a blistering release from Human Wrongs... More

North Korea just exploded a small nuclear weapon; there are concerns that Iran may be next.  So what are the liberal, lefty chattering classes foaming about in their media, their meetings, their demonstrations?  Why the evil of one of their usual villains, Israel. (The US is their... More

The times they are definitely a changing — especially in the media. New technology brings new media or old media in new forms so the ever fluid, ever evolving  media is expanding in our lives in such new and different ways that the full impact hasn't been understood. ... More

We have a raft of books that slam George Bush and other Republicans right before the midterm elections. Then we will be treated to a noxious book by Democratic "icon" Jimmy Carter that calls Israel an apartheid state, coming out right after the mid—term elections.  His book would... More

Arutz Sheva of Israel reports on the Reuters approach to fair and balanced coverage. On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman was remanded to prison until trial for his part in rock—throwing attacks on security forces in Bil'in, where the separation fence is a constant target of protesters. The... More

Iraqbodycount.org does a reality check on the widely—publicized study in the Lancet, a British medical journal that used to be prestigious, claiming 650,000 deaths from the war. That's more twice the maximum death tally from the Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki bombings with Dresden thrown in... More

In today's White House press conference during which Tony Snow attempted to explain the ramifications of Pres. Bush's signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the press corps & Helen Thomas subjected Tony Snow to questioning which some might consider torture.  Here is the... More

Bono, the famous lead singer for the rock band U—2, may practice a misguided form of economics with his renowned world aid program but at least his business management understands the subject.  U2 has reacted to a repeal of an Irish tax break on royalties by moving its publishing company... More

The Rev. Al Sharpton delivers a keynote address at Yale University in New Haven, CT at 7:30 pm ET to discuss "the backlash of the Christian right" and mobilizing the Christian left.*  Myabe he can bring some insight regarding threats: after all he has engaged in them himself towards the jewish... More

Another sure sign that Hillary is running for president in 2008 is her belated virutal admission that she has been lying about the mis—spelling of her name. The New York Times, of course, serves as her megaphone. ... yesterday, Mrs. Clinton's campaign said she was not named for Sir Edmund... More

Michiko Kakutani all but canonizes first term Senator Barack Obama, in her New York Times review of his second book, The Audacity of Hope. This particular passage really sticks in my craw. Reporters and politicians continually use the word authenticity to describe Mr. Obama, pointing to... More

Our friends at Vcrisis.com do some well—deserved crowing about Hugo Chavez's defeat in his bid for a seat on the UN Security Council. Wasting Venezuela's money on payoffs while poverft still afflicts his own people, he was still unable to defeat Guatemala. I count as another big winner John... More

And Alan Dershowitz wonders why he was lambasted a couple of years ago for the same policy Clitnon advocates now. For suggesting this approach to the terrible choice of evils between torture and terrorism, I was condemned as a moral monster, labeled an advocate of torture and called a Torquemada.... More

The film of 12 year—old Mohammed Al—Durah dying in the Gaza Strip, made by a French journalist, sparked outrage throughout the Arab world (and in pockets of the Western world). His death was the subject of a stamp in the Arab world, thereby prolonging the impact.  A... More

As previously noted on AT, hedge fund billionaire George Soros, who has become the  single largest source of financing for the Democratic Party and allied 527 Groups, has recently made his single largest financial political committment of the year to Wesley Clark. Last week, Clark delivered a... More

Christian Streiff, who proposed strong medicine to get the A 380 superjumbo jet into customers' hands, either resigned or was fired when the prospect of job cuts in Hamburg and elsewhere caused political resistance. Airbus was and remains a "social enterprise" whose goals include keeping... More

The French will flex military their "military muscle" to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used... More

The FBI gets a lot of tips on politicians. But it doesn't act on all of them in a great blaze of publicity, just a few weeks before elections.  And not many of them are specifically tipped by the Soros outfit CREW. Well, Curt Weldon and his daughter are getting the full CREW treatment. Weldon... More

The recent report that Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis—St. Paul International Airport are refusing to accept passengers who are carrying alcohol because it offends their religious beliefs, raises an obvious question:  Whatever happened to the separation of church and state? It is... More

Democrats have always tended to advocate a legal approach towards dealing with terrorism.Yet, now we have liberal Democrats striving to apply the most obtuse and absurd reasoning they can (which is offensive on its face) to try to free defendants from prosecution. The Washington Times... More

Our contributor Rick Moran, proprietor of the extraordinary blog Rightwing Nuthouse, is profiled in the suburban Chicago paper, The Daily Herald, quite fitting as Rick is a resident of the Chicago suburbs. I agree with all the good things everyone says about him in the article. Follow the link and... More

After years of silence, Gillo Pontecorvo has died (at age 86, in Rome), taking with him the last remnant of left—wing artistic humanism. Born in Pisa, Pontecorvo spent a large part of his life in Paris after fleeing the Mussolini regime in 1938. He was a diehard communist (his brother... More

Chuck Todd of the Hotline appeared on C—SPAN this morning, and reportedly revealed that George Soros has given $75,000 to Wesley Clark's PAC. Meanwhile, Soros has yet to donate the $5000 he could to Hillary, raising the question, is the General Who Rarely Blinks the chosen instrument for the... More

It may be happening even faster in Canada than in the United States, thanks in part to a public spasm of PC on  the part of a leading contender for leadership of the Liberal Party. Ted Byfield writes in World Net Daily, Michael Ignatieff, a longtime Harvard authority on human rights and... More

One of the biggest donors to the Democrats of Tennessee was arrested on Friday for embezzling millions in retirement funds he was managing (including employee accounts of the TN Democratic Party, the TN Board of Regents and Nashville Metro). But the Democrats announced late last week that they... More

Yesterday, I pointed readers to an excellent book review of Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Jihad, written by Lee Harris for Policy Review. Today appears another worthwhile book review, this time in the Washington Times, with the review written by Andy. The subject is Robert Spencer's new book The... More

The Los Angeles Times, reeling from some of the worst circulation declines int he newspaper industry, and just having fired its publisher, says that it is turning over a new leaf, and has assigned crack invetsigative reporters to the topic. Rather awkwardly, they call it the "Manhattan... More

Eagle—eyed Noel Sheppard, our contributor and also a blogger at the estimable Newsbusters, watched Bill Maher's latest edition of Real Time on HBO. (Noel has a stronger stomach than I do.) Evidently, Bill and his guest Ben Affleck had their heads handed to them by the lone conservative guest... More

Why do I have the feeling that if this chemist (English usage for druggist) were an Orthodox Jew or a devout Christian and he refused to dispense the Morning After Pill, he would be brought up on charges in Britain? A Muslim chemist repeatedly refused a mother the "morning after" pill because of... More

I am writing to propose an alternative interpretation to the one proposed in article 'The Desperate Dictator' regarding Kim Jong—Il's hold on power. In this article you refer to a previous article 'Confusing Signals' to support the theory that KJI was in the midst of an ongoing power... More

Morgan at  Flares Into Darkness has done an excellent job of dissecting the Lancet study which makes fantastic claims 650,000 additional deaths by violence in Iraq. The authors of the Lancet study make a political statement while cloaking the study in pseudo scientific methodology, and Morgan... More

Jim Gerraghty of NRO's TKS blog highlights the declining rate of response to telephone polling on political races.  If you're only completing a shade less than 21% of your calls — way, way down from the traditional 30% response rate threshold pollsters traditionally enjoyed —... More

The news that the Department of Interior has banned certain websites (see our left hand column) has made it to The Federal Times, which means that at least some senior level attention is going to be paid to this attempt at censorship. The Federal Times is very widely read at management levels in... More

Sean Gleeson kindly sent us the emblem seen for the first time today in our left column, proudly proclaiming us to be one of the sites banned by the US Department of the Interior, whose kindness to Harry Reid has proven so lucrative for the Minority Leader. Sean has a website worth checking out.... More

Lee Harris, the author of the wonderful book Civilization and its Enemies, reviews Andrew Bostom's book The Legacy of Jihad, in Policy Review, published by The Hoover Institution at Stanford. When you get a big thinker reviewing another big thinker's book, the results can either be... More

If you have cable TV and something to record it on, don't miss capturing for your library a virtually unknown classic film — an anti—communist classic film, I Married a Communist. Today (Friday) at 6:15 PM Eastern, 3:15 PM Eastern, Turner Classic Movies is showing it under its later and... More

The school year is well underway across North America and Europe.  And now that the fall holidays are over, the same is true of Israel.  And despite youthful grumblings and complaints most students are happy to be in school; they enjoy the structure, their friends and yes, sometimes even... More

'The Plank' at The New Republic On—Line reports the breathtaking news that in early 2006, disgraced ex—Congressman Mark Foley was thinking of not running for re—election, until....(sinister Phantom of the Opera type sound track, please!) Karl Rove talked him out of it! Apparently... More

That's the conclusion of A.J. Strata, who examines the complex maneuvers whereby Harry Reid walked away with a over a million dollar profit on a land deal, following government decisions which suddenly added enormous value to the property in question. So far, the Senate Minority Leader has mainly... More

The current inattention Harry Reid is receiving from the MSM regarding his shady land deals prompted me to enter his name at Google.  Very interesting info out there on Dingy Harry.  For instance, at Political Gateway you can read a Steve Bowers column "The Log In Harry Reid's... More

Last night, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice delivered the keynote address to the  American Task Force on Palestine Inaugural Gala. In her remarks, she spoke out that, Palestinians deserve to live better than they do and be "free of the humiliation of occupation" in a state of their own,"... More

In today's Washington Times, Bill Gertz displays a lack of understanding of intelligence matters despite his extensive works on the subject.  He reports on the NK nuclear test that, Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack... More

USA Today has publicized the refusal of many Muslim cab drivers at Minneapolis—St. Paul International Airport to transport riders who have closed liquor bottles, often gotten at duty—free shops or in trips to California wine country. Muslims make up about half the cab drivers at the... More

Wild temper tantrums as displayed by  suppressing free speech and censorship are the order of the school year at Columbia University. Now, apparently frightened of their own students the administration has begun a campaign of appeasement by canceling a controversial panel... More

The Guardian, the British left wing newspaper, proclaims that charges of vote fraud in America are overstated. But in Missouri,  the left wing activist group ACORN has just been found to have submitted thousands of phony registrations for new voters. If ACORN turned in 40,000 new... More

Gates of Vienna has reported, based on an email from a reader, that a number of conservative websites have been blocked within the United States Department of Interior. The reader wrote: Here's a quick runthrough of what I've found so far at work. You'll see hat its pretty one—sided. Blocked... More

As I noted several months ago in opposition to Mark Steyn's constant gloom about a dying Europe, birthrate trends have been known to change with rapidity.  This AP article by David Crary seems to indicate that large families have become the new suburban status symbol.  It's barely... More

Those self centered Columbia University students, some of whom undoubtedly were admitted to the school under affirmative action programs,  who disrupted a talk at the university by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist and were subsequently arrested, are throwing, or more accurately, petitioning a... More

Something about this poll doesn't add up to me. Politics is a water—cooler topic, a dinner—table subject, an issue to discuss after Sunday services, and this year the interest of American voters is at its highest level in more than a decade. That renewed attention could translate into... More

George Soros is discussing possible funding of efforts to create  a group to counter AIPAC. Call it the anti—AIPAC. Or maybe just Bizzaro AIPAC. Soros, of course, seeks to influence Us Policy towards Israel because earning a large fortune in the currency markets has taught him so many... More

Susan Estrich, noted Democrat and Dukakis campaign manager, is the defense lawyer in an Islam terror case according to the site Vital Perspective. Ms. Estrich also is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton—having written the book, "The Case for Hillary Clinton"  which suggests the... More

David Zucker* may be the most important man of the political campaign. His YouTube video,  now marked as "inappropriate" by Google but still available with an extra click, is all over the internet, after being posted by Drudge. Zucker places responsibility for the NoKo nukes where it... More

The Black Panther Party was a violent criminal organization, which employed murder and torture. There is no serious dispute on this point. But for the Sixties generation lefties, the Huey Newton—in—wicker—chair poster was an exciting icon of the revolutionary potential they... More

Thousands of years ago man domesticated stronger animals then himself to do the physical work he needed done. While it's still true today that some people now in a mechanical age use some of their physical abilities to earn a living on close examination these jobs or services are really more skill... More

I admit it. I'm a Detroit Tigers baseball fan. There, finally—it's out in the open. No more hiding, no more pretending, no more trying to be something that I'm not. It's not easy being a lifelong fan of the Detroit Tigers. I have no 'normal' association with the Tigers—I'm not from... More

Davids Medienkritik discovered deep condescension toward America from a German executive whose company makes most of its money here. Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking defends the German "social model" of capitalism, and implies that we Americans are barely out of the backwoods with our rifles.... More

NBC White House correspondent David Gregory provided another example of his arrogant idiocy during the Oct. 10th press briefing by spokesman Tony Snow. Q Looking back, is there anything that the President would have done differently? Does he believe he has made any mistakes in this? MR. SNOW: Oh,... More

The Islamic world loves the shape of the crescent. Check out the design of Jeddah's new airport terminal complex. I am not certain the shape is all that functional. But when it comes to a memorial for the heroes of United 93, I still think a crescent is inappropriate. Thomas Lifson   10... More

A bankruptcy judge denounces US policy on detentions. Via BusinessWeek, A judge who usually constrains his opinions to the technicalities of bankruptcy law broke from habit last week and denounced U.S. policy on the detention of "enemy combatants" as "the tactics of the old Soviet Union." In an... More

Of all people in the world to hurl the "race baiting" label, who could possibly be less appropriate than the Rev. Al Sharpton? And of all the people to accuse, who seems less likely than mild—mannered Joe Lieberman? Maggie Haberman reports in the New York Post, The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday... More

While hundreds of thousands of ordinary people were starving to death in North Korea, Kim Jong Il invested in nukes, not food.  If that doesn't tell you the character of the Kim regime, nothing will. It's expensive and difficult to develop nuclear weapons. Iran is reportedly having trouble... More

The American Spectator's Prowler today reports matter—of—factly on efforts of CREW to dig up opposition research, and the coordination between tax—exempt CREW and the political party's arms. One of the stories going around Democrat Party circles is that party operatives like... More

Most people don't read all the way to the bottom of Internet news reports, as anything after the first few paragraphs is usually a re—hashing of information given in previous articles on their respective topics. However, yesterday I happened to read all the way to the bottom of a... More

Today the Washington Post ran a stunningly vague article saying that Congressman Jim Kolbe, saw Foley messages in 2000. The lede graph says: A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley's inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally... More

Our contributor Olivier Guitta writes in the Weekly Standard, approving of the denial of a visa to Tariq Ramadan, whom we have covered extensively at AT. Meanwhile, some US newspapers are publishing Ramadan's response. Ramadan is very accomplished at wearing the cloak of reason. Decide for... More

Caroline Glick, a clear headed editor of The Jerusalem Post, an English language newspaper in Israel, has an ominous article, "As the Storm of War Approaches." The perpetrators?  Those old time instigators, the Russians, back in business once again helping the Iranians, Syrians and anyone... More

James Baker "leaks" (before the election) that his Commission will depart from Bush on Iraq. Thanks, Jim. I guess you couldn't wait 4 weeks or so until after the election. Inviting Iran and Syria to help solve the problem—that they are causing. Isn't that called appeasement?Ed... More

James Arlandson today takes on the verse about Jesus and the sword, so I would like to take up a biblical verse of my own: the Sixth Commandment. One of the oldest pieces of political correctness, still spun today, is the King James Bible translation of sixth of the Ten Commandments as "Thou Shalt... More

As American Thinker predicted on Thursday, Richard Clarke's appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show provided another platform for him to posture and preen, but not to respond to any serious questions about the growing threat of Islamofascism through the 1990?s. I hope you won't be too stunned to learn... More

In the immortal words of Elaine Benes, that's what the DNC website page called  Veterans and Military Families is. Fake concern for soldiers. Fake support of soldiers. And most embarrassingly, a fake picture of an American soldier. Michelle Malkin has the entire delicious story, based on a tip... More

Is it too soon for the forlorn Yankee fans to connect the dots? It seems that by now maybe we can say it out loud. Baseball, long a game of arcane tradition and superstition, may have a new curse on its hands. Boston had to live with the curse of the Bambino for 86 years and the Cubs are still... More

On one hand, George Soros—funded groups CREW  and CAP played a key part in the Foley brouhaha, in which the claim is that Republicans were not doing enough to protect pages who are not minors. But Soros also funds the ACLU through the same Open Society organization that funds... More

Samizdata spots what it thinks is a coming trend in the UK. Muslims in Britain should start taking a good look at the auguries. Windsor, a town known for its genteel (and tourist infested) tearooms, has been playing host to low level riots and violence by enraged English youths for several nights... More

One blogger, Corvus of Smart Retorts,  thinks he's unmasked the owner of the fake blog that purpotedly was the basis for the Mahoney demand for an investigation which Brian Ross used as a tag to run the story that started the Foley Firestorm.  Perhaps he is Frederick Clarkson, who is... More

David Frum hs been blogging through the New Woodward book State of Denial, and noticed something Harvard Professor Stephen Walt and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer should contemplate. They are worried about the influence of the Israel Lobby. They should check out the power of the... More

Former VP candidate, congressman, and football star Jack Kemp, decried Hugo Chavez's apparent path toward open Jew—hatred. JTA reports: Jack Kemp, prominent in promoting U.S.—Venezuelan commercial ties, says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is 'fanning the flames of... More

Another Soros project (CAP) suddenly refers readers to a sister project (CREW) just as CREW puts up the pdf emails of the page. CAP had made many references to CREW's site before but never before to CREW's blog which had been around for a while.   Two blogs help us see this.   From... More

The A 380 delay announced by Airbus is generating a spasm of adjustment on the part of suppliers, with engine make Rolls—Royce suspending work on the Trent 900 engine. The pain will spread downward. Layers of suppliers will reduce their work forces and may experience financial stress as... More

USA Gallup is out with several new Senate polls in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee,Rhode Island, Missouri and New Jersey, via Real Clear Politics. Likely reflecting fallout from the Mark Foley affair, the GOP candidate in each race has slipped from their previous standing in recent polls by other... More

The Clinton war to refute The Path to 911 is being fought on many fronts, but perhaps the most important is the soundbite mechanism. Generate memorable language, get it spoken first by celebrities and "experts" and then by your side. If you can popularize it, the culture starts to accept your point... More

The "Hitler Room" at Vienna Volkstheater has been awarded cultural heritage status as part of offical project to protect Third Reich architecture. The Austrian Federal Office for the Care of Monuments (BDA) ordered the room, which was specially erected for a planned visit to the Theatre by Hitler... More

The New York Post this morning quotes  Dick Wolf, creator of the TV mega—franchise Law & Order, as saying that "In America, we've managed to hide it better than a lot of other countries, but anti—Semitism, anti—Muslim sentiments, and racism in general is the dark soul... More

Ever since 9/11 analysts have tried to discover what draws an individual to terrorism, how to identify them, how to prevent them.  Ah, not so easy warns Fouad Ajami. The very "normalcy" of the new terrorists is perhaps their most disturbing characteristic.  An official inquiry for... More

French chickens are apparently coming home to roost.  The French, who for years have been one of Israel's most serious critics, accusing Israel of terrorism regarding the Arabs who want to eliminate them, while cozying up to those same Moslem/Arab countries, seem to have an intifada of their... More

Theoretically, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a 501 C 3 corporation ( non profit) organization which purports to serve a non—partisan public watchdog purpose.  A view of its 'brag list' of 61 Legal Actions reveals precisely one involving a Democrat, giving the... More

Drudge has a world exclusive, as most readers already know. According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of... More

On Sunday we predicted conspiracy theorists would soon be buzzing. thanks to facts artfully published in a way to fan the flames. Here's what we said. The New York Times artfully feeds the conspiracy theorists with some facts, true in and of themselves, which can be taken by those with little... More

So now that the Foley imbroglio has been exposed  as case of Democrat operatives revealing personal communications between two consenting adults, I wonder if the left feels any shame over the hypocrisy of their own witch hunt of a gay man. Under other circumstances, it certainly would cause no... More

Macsmind notices that Rep. Patrick McHenry R—NC  put Pelosi and Emanuel on the spot. From the Hill, which notes tha he ...  called on Democratic leaders yesterday to testify under oath about when they knew of former Rep. Mark Foley's (R—Fla.) Internet communications with a... More

John McIntyre, editor of Real Clear Politics, sums up the ineptness of Speaker Hastert in handling the accusations hurled at him. It is already clear that he was not on top of the matter, but he is compounding the damage by changing his story. ... it is increasingly looking like Hastert's... More

Much more information will be coming as the investigation continues. In the meantime, We now have "sex pedophilia scandal" with no sex and no pedophilia. A partisan witch hunt by serial protectors of sexual predators  and miscreants which amounts to homophobia and an attack on Hastert for not... More

How can we be sure that the Democrats will turn every media lob in their direction into a foul hit? Because that is their consistent record. With the Washington Post having magnified beyond all significance George Allen's remark to a rival campaign worker who was dogging him and with a reporter... More

But suppose the Republican  leadership had Outed Mark Foley and called him bad? How fast would the tar be heated to boiling And poured over the outers while the crowds were roiling With outrage, screaming to the heavens to be heard As they plucked the feathers from each colorful bird To throw... More

German Chancellor Merkel will oppose the move of Airbus A 380 production from Hamburg to Toulouse, according to ($link) the Wall Street Journal. Politics may prevent a logical part of the restructuring I described yesterday as a battle for the survival of the company.  The Journal... More

Saudi Ambassaor Prince Turki al—Faisal alludes to campaign contributions and their impact on foreign policy. Think he might buy into the canard about Jewish control of government, recently on offer from American academics?   This is the man New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd... More

In State of Fear, Michael Crichton drew our attention to the way a pseudo—science can establish itself as gospel in even the most hallowed institutions, averred as 'scientific truth' beyond dispute. His example is Eugenics, a pseudo—science that warn[ed] of an impending crisis, and... More

Last week I wrote an article for American Thinker on Al Gore's Global Warming Crusade. I mentioned in that piece, which drew some unhappy response both from skeptics of global warming and advocates of the cause, that much of Gore's analysis amounted to anecdotal 'evidence', clearly not meeting... More

Hundreds of thousands, no millions, I guess, Of Americans get up each morning and dress In denim or tweed, polyester or silk, Wash down some breakfast with coffee or milk, Pack lunch for the kids, see them off to school, Catch the 8:05, 'can't be late, stay cool'. Noses to grindstones or buried in... More

Stephen Sprueill at NARO's Media Blog looks a bit closer at what Brian Ross has been saying about his sources for nailing Foley. he told the Wall Street Journal, Brian Ross, chief investigative correspondent at ABC News, said a nonpartisan source provided the "tamer" emails that the network... More

A poster at Free Republic reminds us how the Dems who are calling for Hastert's remova,l and who would certainly hold key slots if the Dems won Congress themselves, voted when asked to censure Congressman Studds for having an affair with an underage page:   July 20, 1983, roll call vote 259,... More

Some dhimmis, (those infidels who are not Moslem but succumb to their will)  are helping their Moslem masters celebrate the holy month of Ramadan without even being asked.  Last week a book publisher told Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst and lecturer on counter—terrorism, that they... More

Human Events has broken the story of Democrat congressional candidate Mike Arcuri, [who] while serving as district attorney of Oneida County, N.Y., has billed taxpayers for several questionable expenses, including a call to a phone—sex hotline. There are no teenage boy victims, to be sure,... More

Mark Levin has alerted his readers to what FR posters found: A liberal group called American Family Voices with ties to the Clintons is calling Republican voters suggesting they call Congress and demand the resignation  of the party leaders. He updates with this background on its head Michael... More

Rick Moran of Rightwing Nuthouse has been on top of the Foley story from the start and shows us how desperate the left is to prevent studied attention on its record, a record that puts the lie to the Dems' new new new campaign theme "We'd be Better Sex Cops" A good friend of this site who blogs at... More

Senator Inhofe has been mounting a major campaign exposing the litany of lies being advanced by the global warming promotors and their accomplices in the MSM. Last week, he made a speech on the floor of the Senate ripping the media for their ridiculously lopsided coverage of  the global... More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light  uncovers a very interesting item from the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, about Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, who have come under scrutiny elsewhere as possibly involved in the black blog stopsexpredators.com. Rogers had posted about Foley on... More

A reader makes an excellent point. Instead of attacking Bush and failing to support Bolton the Save Darfur (by backing all the wrong institutions and players, I might add) group might better put their attention to  exposing those who are supplying those who are slaughtering the innocents. I'm... More

One of the stupidest moves the Republicans made in the Plame case —— in which there were many missteps to be sure —— was Steven Hadley's decision to retract the perfectly accurate "16 words" in the SOTUA which said that there was evidence that Iraq had sought to buy uranium... More

As Muslims continue to celebrate their holy month of Ramadan by fasting during daylight hours and feasting at night (and by rioting over the pope's quoting a medieval Christian theologian's observation on Islam's spread by force, some optimistic results from last year's Muslim riots over the... More

Another Ramadan Muslim holy day, another round of Muslim—on—Muslim killings.  As mentioned here recently there is definitely a Muslim genocide underway —— but the perpetrators are other Muslims. The following is just another small sampling of Ramadan holiday... More

The Hotline Blog carries an interesting description of the playbook Democrats seem to be using on the Foley affair. No actual sources are names, but party committes are referred to, so I assume that some concrete evidence beyond inference from actions is involved. Here are the basic elements, but... More

Speaker Hastert is asking the FBI to investigate not only former Rep Foley's actions, but also who had posession of the salacious late—breaking IM messages for the past years. The New York Times reports.  'Since the communications appear to have existed for three years, there should be... More

On One CosmosаBob Godwinаably describes the bind the Left finds itself in, They keep stridently referring to Foley as a 'pervert.' While I certainly agree that he is a pervert, I am quite sure I don't understand why they do. Is it because he is attracted to young men? If that is the case, why... More

I saw an ad the other day blaming Bush for the failure to rescue Darfur. The sponsors SaveDarfur are a collection of organizations opposed to the President and his policies. Odd that the same folks who think the President hasn't been doing enough to save the beset people in Darfur... More

With a third of the country still in deep denial about 9/11 and what it means, somehow the NYT and WaPo have forgotten about another group of 9/11 survivors: The Pentagon employees, military and civilian, who were killed and injured by the third jihadi suicide plane that day. The Washington Times... More

It's just one sign, but a hopeful one nevertheless. The Saudis are laughing at both fundamentalists and terrorists. MSNBC reports: Tash Ma Tash," a wildly popular Saudi TV series that is deploying satire to poke fun at the fundamentalists. Staff on the show have received death threats for what... More

It'll be a cold day in Hell when the BBC recognizes the threat of Iranian nukes. Well, it's just happened. But Hell must be getting near Absolute Zero  for Ayatollah Rafsanjani to be originating the warning from Tehran.  His message to the world? It sure sounds like: Help me! —... More

Attention is turning to "The website that started it all" — the title of Rick Moran's post at Rightwing Nuthouse. Stop Sex Predators came on line in late July with one post announcing its intention to 'serve as a clearing house for the public to report sex predators and as a resource for... More

The New York Times artfully feeds the conspiracy theorists with some facts, true in and of themselves, which can be taken by those with little experience or knowledge as evidence of a vast right wing conspiracy, to borrow a phrase from Senator Clinton. With enough time, the left wing media food... More

I wonder why this has gotten no attention at all. From the New York Daily News: UN Report Says U.S. Breaking Al—Qaeda — James Gordon Meek (New York Daily News) A survey for the UN Security Council made public Wednesday concluded that al—Qaeda "may see more losses than gains"... More

Our frequent contributor Vasko Kohlmayer makes the case for waterboarding in Front Page Magazine. He finds it the most moral of coercive interrogation methods: While other interrogation procedures employ raw force, intimidation or long—term duress, waterboarding brings the terrorist face to... More