Howard Kurtz’s A Hard Right Punch: Michelle Malkin’s Conservative Fight Has Others Coming Out Swinging in the Washington Post today is hard not to come out swinging against. It paints Michelle Malkin as a martyr, firmly standing up to bigotry and persecution – an Ann Coulter sans anorrhexia. Like Ann, Michelle interprets the attacks on […]
Anti-evolution memo stirs controversy Thursday, February 15, 2007, 01:37 PM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish […]
John Amato [Crooks and Liars] has Chris Matthews’ and David Shuster’s report from last night’s Hardball posted [Libby Trial Recap:All Roads Go To The White House]. I’ve found it hard to keep the salient pieces straight among all the legal harangues and courtroom antics. Matthews et. al. have done a good job pulling out the […]
The trial today was beyond tedious. I’ll leave it to the ladies of the night to recap it. It was just too legal for the likes of me. Libby’s Attorney, Ted Wells, is annoying and persistent. One suspects that he wins by boring people to destraction with endless whining, and that people “give in” for […]
The Spring 2003 Iran Proposal: The Story is Not Yet Complete or Correct I have been digging deeper and deeper into various aspects of the alleged Spring 2003 Iran proposal. I may have just stumbled across some huge part of the story — and it could be shocking to nearly every commentator who has thus […]
A Prewar Slide Show Cast Iraq in Rosy Hues When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq, it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.
Libby Is Guilty Libby is guilty. And he’s going to be found guilty. The jury might not convict him on all counts, but he has no chance of surviving the perjury count that was proved beyond a reasonable doubt with Tim Russert’s testimony. The multi-million dollar defense, which provided no defense at all, did not […]
INTELLIGENCE LEAKS Cheney’s Call By Murray Waas, National Journal Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 Some writers just can’t be summarized. Instead of leading with an explanatory opening paragraph [like my high school newspaper teacher forced us to do], they write more like novelists – taking us through the story piece by piece as they build a […]
The Way Forward in Afghanistan In an address hosted by AEI, President George W. Bush discussed progress in the War on Terror, focusing on the front in Afghanistan. He announced a five-point plan to help the young democracy grow and become more stable: increasing the size and capability of the Afghan Security Forces, strengthening […]
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