It's apparently taboo now to describe any African-American as "articulate." Though it was little noted, on Wednesday President Bush on the Fox News Channel also described Mr. Obama as “articulate.†On any given day, in any number of settings, it is likely to be one of the first things white people warmly remark about Oprah […]
In the months following 9/11, if you'd have taken a poll of the general public most would have predicted that the United States would not go another five years without a major terrorist attack. For all its mistakes in just about every other aspect of governance -- from out-of-control spending on the domestic front to […]
Former Democrat vice presidential hopeful John "the hair" Edwards had a bad week -- and it's not clear he realizes it. Edwards, whom we last mocked for having a book signing at a Barnes & Noble (starting salary $7 an hour) instead of a Wal-Mart (starting salary $7.50 an hour) because Wal-Mart is evil, unveiled […]
Up is down. Right is wrong. Sen. James Webb of Virginia was on Fox News Sunday this morning and host Chris Wallace confronted him with the intellectual disconnect that I mentioned a week ago: It doesn't make sense to unanimously confirm Gen. David Petraeus for a fourth star and at the same time tout a […]
The Washington Post's William Arkin forgot the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging. After more than 1,000 responses to his original bile -- the majority of which questioned his intelligence, sanity, sincerity and the circumstances of his birth -- Arkin doubled down on stupid. Contrary to the typically inaccurate and […]
The Washington Post's national/homeland security columnist crossed the line Tuesday. William Arkin, who served four years as a military intel guy in Europe in the mid- to late-'70s followed by jobs with every left-wing group from Greenpeace to the National Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch, made the mistake of watching an NBC Nightly […]
Iowahawk has discovered the first draft of history professor David A. Bell's controversial piece "Was 9/11 really that bad." An excerpt: No disrespect to the victims of 9/11 or to the men and women of our armed forces, but by the standards of past wars, 3000 yuppie bond traders and a couple of high-rise developments […]
I got Microsoft Windows Vista Business edition and Office 2007 in the mail yesterday. Seven hundred bucks worth of software for free -- all for playing six Webcasts -- including one or two that I actually did listen to (and didn't understand more than a fraction of what they were talking about). The strange thing […]
And the radical left always claims that the right wants to restrict freedom of speech. (via The Volokh Conspiracy) Former New York Times reporter and now senior fellow at The Nation Institute, Chris "American Fascists" Hedges: This is the awful paradox of tolerance. There arise moments when those who would destroy the tolerance that makes […]
New York Times public editor Byron Calame -- and the Times as an institution -- are a disgrace. They've taken the "citizen of the world" idea and embraced its anti-Americanism. At the end of Calame's Sunday column, we learn that the Times' chief military correspondent, Michael Gordon, was recently reprimanded for comments he made on […]