The Spies Who Came In Under The Radar

The AIPAC spy trial has been delayed once again. It was supposed to start on January 16: the new trial date is April 29. I’ve been covering this story since it first broke—in the summer of 2004. Briefly, the ...

The Huckabee Horror

John Fund cites Phyllis Schlafly on the Huckabee Horror: “‘Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. ‘He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the ...

Bill Donohue Is Right About the Huckster

I understand the, uh, over-sensitiveness of Christians when they believe they are being forced to take their Christianity out of “the public square,” as my good friend Scott Richert avers, but the ...

Norman Podhoretz: Unknown Soldier of the War Party?

How clueless is Rush Limbaugh? This clueless: “You know, when I talk about people who labor behind the scenes and are working hard down there in the basements and they get no notoriety or very little, very little ...

Anti-Ron Paul Spam Hits the Internet

The first phase of the smear campaign against Ron Paul was all about “spamming”—sending unsolicited email with pro-Paul messages. This was and is a lot of malarkey, as spammers notoriously glom on to ...

Ron Paul: Don”€™t Take Him For Granted

Some Democrats, as I said here, are baffled that Ron Paul is such a successful politician, what with no pork-barrel appeal and his refusal to kowtow to the intellectual and party elites, but others, such as Shane Sklar, his ...

Give the Money Back? Hell No!

The Smear Bund is busy, what with the Ron Paul campaign and all. I’ve covered the controversy here, but there’s more to say. The brouhaha is over the fact that the Bund’s crack investigators have been ...

Tom Lehrer

Big Stories

The U.S.A. is a country, not a ...

Data Security 101

It'd be worth it in the long run, but ... politicians don't concern themselves much with the long ...

Covering the Ron Paul Beat: Prelude to Iowa

Neocon blogger-GOP “insider” Patrick Ruffini —described by the New York Times as a former “e-director for the Republican National Committee”— who previously tried to downplay Ron ...

The Demagogue Express

Here’s the video of Mad John McCain going ballistic over the anti-Petraeus Moveon.org ad in the New York Times: <object width=“425” height=“350”><param name=“movie” ...

Fear of the Smear

I’ve said it before and will say it again: Fear of the smear is the Israeli lobby’s chief weapon. Here’s Charles Freeman Jr’s., Obama’s choice for a major intelligence post, reasons for ...

President Barack Obama in Israel

You Cannot Be Syrious

These are children of the Civil Rights era, remember, taught from childhood that good people must go out and confront ...

Chavez in Wonderland (Episode Two)

Why not regulate everything? That seems to be the central canon of what Hugo Chavez calls “Bolivarianism,” which is Venezuelan for bollocks. Chavez started out as a nationalist, who pledged to clean up ...

Remember the Liberty

Israel is our friend—right? Well, not quite, as the latest revelations about the sinking of the USS Liberty make all too clear, and the survivors of that attack—in which 34 US servicemen were killed, and at ...

A Republican Realignment?

House Republicans have put up a united front in opposing Obama's stimulus package. Writes conservative columnist Robert Stacy McCain "€œMan, if all it took to get Republicans to vote conservative was to elect a Democratic ...

A Slow News Week

Life under Jim Snow "”€ Guilty of Bad Thoughts? "”€ Stand Your Ground stupidity "”€ Immigration bill roundup "”€ The Naked and the Bread "”€ Name that moon! "”€ Pee pee power "”€ How to jam a bat "”€ Shi Tu ...

The Huckabee Horror Continues

I’m looking at the Huckster saying that people who are wealthy and those who just happened to be dirt poor should get the same health care. So, if he’s nominated, will the Republicans change their name to the ...

Have a Hopeful Weekend

There is hope: <object width=“425” height=“366”><param name=“movie” value=“http://www.youtube.com/v/jgs2S_BCzJE&rel=1&border=0”> <embed ...

Elton, the 'gay' dog

A Lot of Small Stuff

Electing a new people "”€ Israel reality check "”€ Israel hits Syria "”€ The forever war "”€ World’s most fearless translator "”€ Homo hound hunch "”€ The next angry minority "”€ Law schools emptying out ...


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