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The details still aren't clear, but it appears that CIA interrogators can aggressively question terrorist suspects without running afoul of the Geneva Conventions. Andrew McCarthy reports: Early predictions that the President was getting rolled seem to have been greatly exaggerated. And the McCain bloc got its principles validated without disabling the CIA program, which they […]

It doesn't have quite the kick that the "Virginia is for Lovers" campaign by the Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, but apparently for WUSA 9 TV, the voters in Virginia aren't fond of Jews (Hat tip: ThirtyAughtSix). In a promo for their sharp-as-a-bowling-ball reporter Peggy Fox, WUSA9 had this to say: Our Peggy Fox raised […]

After the mini-debate we've been having here over tough interrogation techniques and their use against terrorism suspects, I found the timing of this Bill O'Reilly interview with ABC reporter Brian Ross fortuitous. [Follow the link for video.] In the interview, Ross reveals that he has solid evidence from multiple sources that tough interrogation techniques (including […]

A letter to the editor in Wednesday's Union-Tribune raises the question: What are they teaching in our schools? Two speeches, two agendas In his political cartoon Sept. 13 Steve Breen apparently wanted to compare Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to President Bush's 9/11 speech. The difference is that Lincoln's speech was designed to bring the country together. […]

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, having solved all the other problems facing the state, has decided to sue carmakers over greenhouse gas emissions. Lockyer - a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election - said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by […]

The Heritage Foundation's James Jay Carafano has a short primer on the current debate before Congress. For those who are interested, we also have a debate on a post down below on the same issue.

Avast, maties! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

You just can't make this stuff up. In a debate yesterday between GOP Sen. George Allen and Democrat Jim Webb in the race for one of Virginia's Senate seats, local television journalist Peggy Fox posed an insightful, intriguing, relevant question: Following the "macaca" episode, the Jewish press published stories that appeared on the Internet that […]

I'm sure you're tired of it -- I know I am -- but former federal prosecutor Victoria Toensing had an excellent piece on "the Plame kerfuffle" in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Toensing takes ambassador Joseph Wilson, journalist David Corn, leaker Richard Armitage and prosecutor Peter Fitzgerald to the woodshed over the giant nothing which was […]

It's a little bizarre that much of the past week's discussion on giving full Geneva Conventions protections to terrorists reminds me of an old Bill Cosby schtick. In his comedy routine, Cosby imagined what it would be like if, during various battles in U.S. history, a referee had been present to do a coin toss. […]