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CAIR Takes Muslim Media Manipulation to New Heights

Imagine the reaction if a newspaper hired a former National Rifle Association employee to cover a gun control referendum. Or if a former Goldman Sachs trader was offered by a television network as an objective journalist on financial reform. Even

The 9/11 Mosque's Peace Charade

By Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer A massive fifteen-story mosque and Islamic Center going up in what was once the shadow of the World Trade Center claims to offer “the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.” The Center organizers,

Daily Gut: The New Extremism

So President Obama faced a few hecklers yesterday, who went after him about the “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Take a gander, gander takers: Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Now I, for one, think it’s awesome to see

Daily Gut: A Comedy of Terrors

Chris Morris is a phenomenally brilliant British comedian responsible for some of the most viciously funny programs I’ve ever seen (Check out “Brass Eye” or “The Day Today,” if you don’t believe me). But now he’s coming out with a

Inside the Cult of Insanity: The Westboro Baptist Church

Fred Phelps and the congregants of his hate-infested Westboro Baptist Church have been terrorizing their fellow Americans for more than 50 years. Through explicit exploitation of Christianity, the group has picketed against, exploited and demeaned any and all of the

The Center Of American Politics

Despite what Congress and the current administration would have the people believe, the inconvenient truth is that fiscal conservatives are the dead center of American politics. Amidst accusations of extremism, Americans are responding to a message of limited government, fiscal

Daily Gut: Blotting Out the Fort Hood Dots

So while Republicans rejoiced over a huge victory in Massachusetts, a far bigger win took place at the Pentagon. The winner, sadly, was political correctness – that infectious mist of brainlessness that turns normal men into Jell-O. A bastard child

Gloom and Fury as Pakistan Attack Toll Nears 100

AP: Tribal elders in a Pakistani village where a suicide car bomber killed nearly 100 people insisted Saturday that residents will keep defying the Taliban, even as the bloodshed laid bare the risks facing the citizens’ militias that make up

Wednesday Open Thread: Napolitano Edition

In April 2009, the Department of Homeland Security published an “Assessment” of the threat of Right-Wing extremism. One section identified returning military veterans as a particular danger: DHS/I and A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize

Daily Gut: Soldiers on Drugs

Their valor is second to none. But are drugs helping them get the job done? According to Men’s Health, American troops are taking piles of prescription meds – citing a U-S army survey that found 12 percent of soldiers in

Insatiable Extremism: Where Right and Left Meet

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks and a pair of comics named Bob and Ray. Bob Elliot was the father of Chris