UPDATED WITH LINKS The New Republic has re-fact-checked it's previously fact-checked reports and come to the conclusion that they were mostly right. Beauchamp's essay consisted of three discrete anecdotes. In the first, Beauchamp recounted how he and a fellow soldier mocked a disfigured woman seated near them in a dining hall. Three soldiers with whom […]
The Council on American Islamic Relations threatened to do something (what exactly they don't say) to the Young America's Foundation if they allowed Islamic scholar Robert Spencer to speak at their conference. YAF spokesman Jason Mattera responded appropriately: “CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.” CAIR's threats may […]
This post has been updated. Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama is trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials after what was seen by many as a faux pas when he agreed to meet with the leaders of rogue states Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Syria without precondition in the first year of his presidency. […]
It's amazing what you can do with some creative editing.
Majority Whip James Clyburn -- the No. 3 man in the House -- revealed something that just makes you truly sad for the state of the Democratic Party which was once represented by Harry S Truman and John F. Kennedy. Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker […]
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Cohen wrote a column yesterday arguing against people having guns -- especially young adults -- except for him. According to [Fred] Thompson, the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech ( 32 dead) proved not that the shooter should have been in some sort of […]