Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin again refused yesterday to apologize for comparing American troops to Nazis, the jailers of Stalin's gulag and Pol Pot and his murderous regime. Michelle Malkin has a handy roundup of links. Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson dipped his toe in the sewer and got a little "Screw Them" Kos infection. Among […]
Wired News has an interview with Rep. Dick Boucher (D-Va.) on his efforts to return fair-use rights to the public. WN: Fair use is all well and good, but isn't the entertainment industry saying, "You can use this stuff, but we are not obligated to present it to you in a form that is easy […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin -- in an outrageous display of historical ignorance, hyperbole and idiocy [link PDF document] -- compared U.S. servicemen and women to Nazis. When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have […]
Poor and Stupid's Don Luskin points to an article (which has unfortunately fallen behind a subscription-only wall) that suggests something rather obvious -- that without abortion, there would be more Americans alive to pay Social Security taxes. Look at the amount of Social Security taxes paid by the average taxpayer in 2004...and then multiply that […]
The political classes of Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, are in a tizzy over this week's Time magazine report on Guantanamo Bay's Prisoner 063 -- the terrorist who would've been the 20th hijacker, but was turned back at the border. Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska was among those criticizing such metholds [sic]. "It's not […]
During the roundtable discussion portion of Friday's "Special Report with Brit Hume," The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes said that if Clarence Thomas were appointed to the Supreme Court today, the Democrats in the Senate would filibuster him as an "out of the mainstream extremist." National Public Radio's Juan Williams said: "I don't think they'd filibuster […]
City Journal's Katerine Ernst rips California's dimmest bulb, Sen. Barbara Boxer, a new one. After detailing Boxer's nutty attacks on Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Ernst gives us a little history lesson. The Barbara Boxer of four years ago, you’d like to think, would find today’s Barbara Boxer appalling. After all, back then, the senator based […]
Still no Social Security plan, and I only have to go 1 sentence into Krugman's latest column to call it bolshevik storytelling. Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal society. Says Krugman about late '40s, '50s and '60s -- as millions of blacks were fighting for their civil rights.
In a classic case of burying the lede, Friday's Washington Post got Democrat Party chief Howard Dean to make a startling confession -- but only if you read far enough into the story. "Have you had advice for Governor Dean about his most recent comments, sir?" Reid replied that there isn't anyone who hasn't "misspoken" […]
Back during the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat nominee, refused to sign what is known as a "Form 180". A 180 waives privacy rights with regard to military records and allows others to see them. Bush signed a Form 180 long before the 2004 election cycle -- though he got flak from […]