...when they're silent. As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on Iraqi casualties. The moderator largely freaked out. When other members of the panel tried to answer his question, he demanded they "stand down." He […]
The New Republic has another fabulist on its hands. After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegations made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the "Baghdad Diarist", have been "refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false" [emphasis […]
There's good news and stupid news today on the judges front -- and both include Democrats. First, the good news, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California bucked the insane left and voted to send the nomination of Leslie Southwick to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to the full Senate. Feinstein said she decided to break […]
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 […]
According to Robert Novak (via Newsbusters) Young conservatives looking to get into mainstream journalism face a very difficult path according to veteran journalist Bob Novak. The syndicated columnist made those remarks on a conference call with bloggers about his new book "The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington." Novak blamed liberal discrimination which […]