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Fox News talker Glenn Beck has drawn the ire of some on the Christian left after calling on people who attend churches that preach “social justice” to leave that church. The Rev. Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, a network of progressive Christians, says Beck perverted Jesus' message when he urged Christians last week to leave […]

The only news hook for this post is the fact that it’s been bugging me for months and I haven’t written about it. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama characterized U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan as little more than indiscriminate bombing. "Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the […]

Tom Hanks is a fine actor. He’s also done a lot of good work on bringing some American history to the big and small screens – including “Band of Brothers,” and “John Adams.” But it appears as though his latest project is more of the typical Hollywood fare – America is evil and racist. But […]

Politifact.com, which is routinely an object of scorn here, has this interesting bit in its latest mailbag feature. There are the e-mailers who criticize us generally for perceived liberal bias. (For the record, we are an independent, nonpartisan journalism organization.) For the record, I’m often mistaken for Brad Pitt and have women throwing themselves at […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was revealed to be one yet again today. Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls "the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties": Today, Democrats and Republicans live in different universes, both intellectually and morally. "What Democrats […]

The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto highlights some totally predictable partisan hackery by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. What Did the Founders Say Today? "If the Republicans pushing against the filibuster love majority rule so much, they should propose getting rid of the Senate altogether. But doing so would mean acknowledging what's really going on […]

Victoria Toensing has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal taking the Obama Justice Department to task over the handling of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Unfortunately, I can’t read the entire piece because the Journal recently reverted to making most of its Opinion Page subscriber-only after about two years of it being free of […]

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Obama’s polling numbers continue to drop. Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It's probably a good thing he doesn't have to run for reelection this […]

Have you ever wondered why your flood insurance doesn’t pay off when your house burns to the ground? No? Well, then you’re smarter than that guy in the White House.   When I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t […]