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October 2009

Obama Administration Attempts to Erase Honduras Report

Ed Morrisey: To the embarrassment of the White House and State Department, the [Law Library of Congress] determined that Honduras...

"Follow the Burqa"

Phyllis Chesler proposes hatred of women as one of the dominant forces motivating al-Qaeda-style Islamic radicalism. She recounts Osama bin...

UK's Mess: A Side-Effect of Labor's War On "The Right"

Daily Mail: Jack Straw and Tony Blair 'dishonestly' concealed a plan to allow in more immigrants and make Britain more...

Obamessiah

I saw a blog where a young person posts, "I have pictures of Obama on my wall. He gives...

Iranian Negotiation Breakdown

Surprise! President Obama's policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran is close to collapse as Tehran backtracks on a crucial deal...

Lamar Alexander's Olive Branch

I found the contents of yesterday's Senate speech by Lamar Alexander commendable. After warning Obama to avoid a pitfall which...

Bush's Gift to Obama

I didn't always agree with Bush, but, gosh darn it, the guy was decent, even to those who considered him...

This Christian Supports Blasphemy

Jonathan Turley, via Instapundit: While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in...

"Tragedy of the Commons" Debunked

Nice write-up over at TierneyLabs in the New York Times. True confession: I'd love to say, "Oh, I always knew...

Salon Portrays the Right

Steven Lubet in Salon apparently slept through the Bush years: American political discourse has gotten increasingly nasty over the past...

Green Hell's Brilliant Comment on Apple

As you may or may not have heard, Apple pulled out of the US Chamber of Commerce because said institution...

Reagan's Personal Character

Liberal Democrat Gary David Goldberg created Family Ties during the Reagan administration, probably, it seemed to me as rare viewer,...

Governmental Failure is "Capitalism"

In Michael Moore's latest movie: One such tale involves a for-profit juvenile-detention center in Pennsylvania whose operators allegedly bribed two...

Richard Dawkins on Sex

"Enjoy your own sex life (so long as it damages nobody else) and leave others to enjoy theirs in private...

The End of Human Rights

This is why I find "Theodore Dalrymple" brilliant: On October 23, 2007, [Fiona] Pilkington, a single mother of low intelligence,...

Bush Lied! (Updated)

... or he should have at least known better. For once, I believe the allegation to be at least plausible....

Who Cares About Fusion?

Who, we are told, cares the most about our dependence upon foreign oil — the left, correct? And which party...

Conservatives and the Civil Rights Movement

Cleaning out some old "to do" projects: In response to this: Beck and every modern-day movement conservative would have stood...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Jewish

According to the Telegraph, anyway. Oddly, some of the more virulent anti-semites in history have been Jewish. Karl Marx, notoriously...

Thoughts on Obama's Copenhagen Defeat (Updated)

A lot of people, including those far up north, are remarking that Obama's first-round Danish knockout means he's no longer...

Breaking News: More Conservative Fury!

Amidst a backdrop of ACORN's support for prostitution, and ties to the highest levels of the administration; Letterman's sexual hypocrisy,...

Polanski as a Radioactive Isotope

Jonah Goldberg: His defenders don't care. They are above and beyond bourgeois notions of morality, even legality. And that's the...

David Letterman's Preening Moralism

By the time you read this, Letterman's public admission, about an hour ago — of having had sex with several...

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