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Articles by Gregg Opelka

Need To Find 'Nuance' In Times Square Bomber Drives Liberals Nuts

In Robert Wright’s May 11 New York Times essay,“The Making of a Terrorist,” we learn a very interesting and useful fact: terrorists are complicated. No offense, Hamlet, but there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this.

Obama to Grads: A Little iPod Is a Dangerous Thing

President Obama delivered the commencement address at Hampton University in Virginia on Sunday and, for those accustomed to his usual dose of narcissism, hypersensitivity, and self-serving historical revisionism, the Kvetcher-in-Chief didn’t disappoint. Here’s the text of the speech, courtesy of

E. J. Dionne's Ode To the Wonders of Government Twists Reality

You can’t accuse E.J. Dionne of not trying. In this Washington Post article he does quite a Cirque du Soleil contortionist routine in his effort to convince us that “big” government is to be trusted and that the Tea Party

Inspector Robinson-Clouseau Rides to Arizona's Rescue

When otherwise intelligent writers like the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson lose their minds, one has the audacity to hope that Michele Obama and her Obesity Police will add Kool-Aid to the list of sugary drinks they’d like to ban. With

Dr. Ambinder Will See You Now, You Screaming Nutjobs

Marc Ambinder poses this question in his April 23 article in The Atlantic : “Have Conservatives Gone Mad? ” Ambinder lays blithe and, according to no less a source than himself, undeniable claim to the liberal journalism’s monopoly on political

Rachel Maddow Thinks Her Audience Is Almost Too Dumb To Function

It’s a good thing we have Rachel Maddow to help us understand the “way more interesting” things that are going on “underneath the surface.” And by “interesting,” Maddow means “gross.” Nevertheless, we’re lucky to have Ms. Maddow to disambiguate such

When They're Not Actually Racists, Tea Partiers Are, You Know, Kooks

Heaven help Richard Kim. That’s not my wish, it’s his–expressed in a piece entitled “Loose Tea” he wrote for the venerable left-wing magazine, The Nation. Honoring the liberal playbook by attacking the Tea Party on everything except substance, Kim starts

Just As To the MSM, To Bill Clinton, Tea = TNT

On Friday, former president Bill Clinton delivered a speech at the seven-year-old Center for American Progress, a left-wing advocacy organization based in Washington, in a symposium on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and what lessons can be

Why Is the 'Master Communicator' Ducking the Media?

It’s a notion commonly peddled by both Democrats and the MSM that President Obama is a “master communicator.” This notion is repeated by liberal television pundit and scribe ad nauseam apparently in the belief that endless repetition can turn Wish