No one fully understood how corrupted the American military had become by the corrosive influence of “political correctness” — which more properly should be call “fascism of the mind,” since it seeks to control thought by controlling speech — until
The great Victor Davis Hanson, over at his blog, Works and Days, in the peroration from yesterday’s column, “Where Did Our Real Wealth Go?” Why am I not too optimistic right now? Our President, who submitted the largest deficits in
You probably already know that Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times‘s Week in Review and Book Review sections, published a book last year that must have seemed like a good idea at the time he pitched it
No matter what you think of J.D. Hayworth — former Congressman, talk-show host, anti-illegal immigration hardliner and Abramoff-scarred beneficiary — one thing you’ve got to like about him is that he is mounting a primary challenge to Sen. John McCain
If there’s one thing the Snowpocalypse-hastened collapse of the Great Global Warming Hoax has shown us, among other things, it’s that Mark Steyn, as usual, was right all along, and “Anthropogenic Global Warming” — ridiculous on its face, as anyone
Oops! The wheels may have just come off Al Gore’s Oscar-winning, eco-friendly tricycle/global-warming scam. From the U.K. Times on Line today (Sunday): World may not be warming, say scientists The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists
Is there something in the water at MSNBC that makes everybody there crazy? Morning Joe, which ought to be the premier political talk show on morning television — but won’t be until it expands its guest list beyond Mrs. Alan
As anyone who’s ever lived in our nation’s capital knows, Washington D.C. — which, as JFK famously remarked, combines northern hospitality with southern efficiency — is abysmal at snow removal. And with two major blizzards within a week, the city
Short answer: nobody knows. But given that the West has consistently underestimated — or misrepresented — the Iranian government’s intentions and capabilities, maybe we ought to be paying attention. Especially since they’ve warned us about a stunning “punch” today. Farsi
Try to control your incredulous laughter as Jim VandeHei of Politico heatedly explains to Bill O’Reilly that most MSM reporters don’t really hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. VandeHei acknowledged that the mainstream was late to the tea
Fascinating essay in Sunday’s Washington Post by Gerard Alexander, an associate professor of politics at the University of Virgina: “Why Are Liberals So Condescending?” Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and
What could be more fun than watching the humorless nags of the Left consistently walk into the business end of the same half-open door time and time again and pick up a fresh shiner? Because they can’t help but project
Jack Murtha, one of the most corrupt congressmen in modern history, has died. The obits will start appearing shortly. Until the media frames his colorful but checkered past to depict him as one of the lions of the Democrat Party,
A blast from the past, and a warning for the future. There’s some typical KGB boasting here — and remember that, in the end, they lost — but it’s worth watching and paying heed to: [youtube zeMZGGQ0ERk nolink] Maybe it’s
Surely, the White House has someone on the staff who can teach the President how to pronounce the word “corpsman.” It would also be great if someone in media knew what a corpsman is, but the Harvard-educated press’s knowledge of
Doesn’t it strike you as odd that of the two most recent losing Democratic presidential tickets, in 200 and 2004, the erstwhile vice-presidential candidate has become either a pariah in his own party (Joe Lieberman) or, well… this guy: That
J.D. Salinger, the celebrated author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey has died at the age of 91. Having outlived his reputation, but never having quite escaped it, Salinger spent most of the latter half of
Howard Zinn, the progressive Marxist historian, has died at the age of 87. Some choice quotes: There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. We need to decide that we will not go to
Return with us now to those glorious days of yesteryear, when honest reporters were just starting to turn into “journalists,” and CBS’s 60 Minutes was the top-rated program in the nation for a reason: it played fair. Exhibit A is
The captions write themselves, but go ahead, give it a try. You might start with this: I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
What else is there to say? FALLS CHURCH, VA – JANUARY 19: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the ‘Race To The Top’ program at the Graham Road Elementary School January 19, 2010 in Falls Church, Virginia. The President
For long-suffering conservatives, Christmas arrived about a month late this year. But considering all the presents we got this week, it was like coming downstairs and finding the Budweiser Clydesdales under the tree, instead of that crummy used Radio Flyer
You know you’re out of the loop when your only source of news is the New York Times, which is why you’re probably in a deep funk at this moment, suffering from near-terminal cognitive dissonance. Because, as Matt Welch of
Remember back in November when Major Malik Nadal Hasan went on a shooting rampage on the Army base at Fort Hood, Tex., and the media’s first impulse was to reflexively wonder why he had done it? Was it because he
Michael Kinsley, the former editor of Slate, once defined a gaffe as what happens when a politician inadvertently blurts out the truth. But what about when a card-carrying member of the MSM does the same thing? David “advisor to presidents”
