Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:33:12 pm
There was good news from Iraq yesterday; the US announced through Vice President Joe Biden that the two most senior leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who masterminded numerous terrorist attacks against Iraqis and Americans, have been terminated in a joint effort by Iraqi and US security forces: Statement by ...

Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:46:06 am
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Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:30:22 pm
Ron Paul’s legions of devoted followers are slipping. They used to be the champions of poll spamming. Mitt Romney Wins GOP Presidential Straw Poll. NEW ORLEANS — By a single vote, Mitt Romney won the straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership conference here Saturday in a victory that will ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:19:45 pm
Some very frightening news from the world of climate science, as an international scientific team discovers that the Arctic permafrost in Siberia may be starting to leak huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere. And if this proves to be true, my friends, it will put every other concern of human ...

Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:59:00 am
President Obama is revising the nuclear strategy of the United States, substantially limiting the conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons. The most controversial part of the new strategy: Obama is committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that comply with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:29:48 pm
There’s a lot of buzz on the web about this video released today by Wikileaks, showing a 2007 incident in Iraq in which a Reuters cameraman was killed by fire from an Apache helicopter, along with several other people. After the initial shooting, a group of adults and children arrive ...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:52:15 pm
Every day seems to bring ever more horrifying new revelations about the German Catholic school child abuse scandal. Today we learned that the German archdiocese headed by Josef Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) ignored a psychiatrist’s repeated warnings about a priest accused of molesting children, and simply let the priest ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:34:23 pm
Blatant hypocrisy — it’s spelled P-A-L-I-N: Sarah Palin sees eye-to-eye with Albertans in Calgary speech. The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse. “We used to hustle over the border ...

Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:06:42 pm
Texas Governor Rick Perry may have won the Republican primary yesterday, but one of his main operatives, creationist dentist Don McLeroy, got thrown out. In the March 2, 2010, primary election, avowed young-earth creationist Don McLeroy narrowly lost his bid to be the Republican candidate for the District 9 seat ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:26:04 pm
At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing To Be Unfamiliar With Tea ...

Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:31:53 pm
Anybody want to talk about Coakley vs. Brown? It’s looking like right wing tea party candidate Scott Brown will ride to victory on a wave of Fox News-fueled populist anger, so here’s a thread to discuss it. (Yes, I’m still traveling, and won’t be back on solid ground until late ...

Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:31:28 am
Tim Blair is still outrageously outraged that Danny Glover said global warming caused the Haitian earthquake. (He didn’t.) Blair links to a Bill O’Reilly segment that blatantly misquotes what Glover did say: [Video] Here’s the misquote: There’s all this hell because of global warming, there’s all this hell because of climate change … ...

Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:07:54 am
Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter was a fierce critic of President Clinton for not being tougher on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but suddenly had a radical change of opinion about the dangers of Hussein immediately before the Iraq War. He became a very outspoken antiwar activist, turning ...

Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:00:22 pm
Here’s Sarah Palin making her debut on Fox News, admitting that during the lead-up to her 2008 vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden she “questioned” whether Iraq might have been responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. (This is the second half of her appearance on the O’Reilly show.) [Video] Interviewed by Fox ...