If you're not making the Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com part of your daily reading list, you're missing out From yesterday we have Anne Bayefsky's speech to the useless United Nations that has finally discovered that there are a lot of anti-Semites in its midst. Today they have an excellent indictment of the politicization of the […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, after attacking the left's favorite hobgoblin, Attorney General John Ashcroft, for failing to capture any real terrorists -- blames him for ... uh ... catching a terrorist. A correction? Don't make me laugh.
Listen to Sean Hannity on Monday, because I can bet you he is going to raise holy H-E-Double Hockeysticks about the following statement by Bill Clinton -- one not challenged by slow-pitch softball extrordinaire Dan Rather. Rather: (9/11) Commission member Bob Kerrey, former Democratic senator, someone you know well, said that you, President Clinton, let […]
An Osama bin Laden-affiliated terror group today beheaded American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia. You won't find photos here, but you can find them on the Drudge Report. Sadly, I'm not surprised. It's gotten to the point now that you've got to know that if you're captured by terrorists in the Middle East, you're as […]
Two articles in today's San Diego Union-Tribune are well worth your time. The first is an editorial taking the media to task for yesterday's inaccurate characterizations of the 9/11 commission's report and the relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al-Qaeda," Bush […]
Link after link to media reports of today's 9/11 commission staff reports contain stunning inaccuracies -- claiming that Iraq and Al Qaeda were not involved with each other. (Saddam: "Al Qaeda? Never heard of him.) From the Los Angeles Times: No Signs of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties Found 9/11 report appears to dismiss a key rationale […]
The 9/11 commission's declaration that they have found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States" is being turned into a stick to beat the president with the "Bush lied" canard. The panel investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks found "no credible evidence that Iraq and al […]
No suprise, really, but in today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing he "questioned" Attorney General John Ashcroft. Ashcroft: I condemn torture. I think it ... it ... Biden: So it's not justified then? Ashcroft: I don't think it's productive, let alone justified. Biden: Well, I don't either. And, by the way, there's a reason ... I'll […]
Human rights organizations, and others, often make the argument that we should follow the Geneva Conventions because if we do not, then our opponents in future wars would use that as an excuse to mistreat American soldiers that they capture. This argument is often applied (bizarrely) by human rights organizations to terrorists who do not […]
A day after most other newspaper editorial pages had weighed in on the brutal execution of Nick Berg, the New York Times has its say -- and they still don't get it. But this manipulative attempt to establish a moral equivalence between the gruesome execution of Mr. Berg and the torture of Iraqi prisoners is […]