In the Times today, David Brooks takes on those in the media who would lay the acts of an apparently quite mad Jared Loughner at the door of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, et al. “These accusations — that political actors contributed to the murder of 6 people, including a 9-year-old girl — are extremely grave,” …
In an article that appeared in The Washington Post, Michael Waldman, a former speechwriter for President Clinton, points out that while members of the Tea Party and other right wingers like Michele Bachman say they are committed to upholding the Constitution, they in fact favor changing the Constitution in countless ways. Here are some Waldman …
I was sorry to see government officials like Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton overreacting to last week’s Wikileaks’ data drop, but it’s appalling to see CNN trying to poke a reaction by asking “Is Julian Assange a terrorist or a journalist?”, which the network did on a December 12th broadcast. FBI profiler Greg McCrary toed …
Way to go, Ron Paul! The iconolclastic Texas Congressman Ron Paul has rousingly defended speech WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange on the floor of the House of Representatives. “Why is the hostility directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?” asked Paul. He went on to compare …
Angry over tuition increases, protesters in London trashed the limo in which Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are riding yesterday.
Paul Krugman is unhappy. “After the Democratic “shellacking” in the midterm elections,” he writes in today’s Times, “everyone wondered how President Obama would respond. Would he show what he was made of? Would he stand firm for the values he believes in, even in the face of political adversity? On Monday, we got the answer: …
Sunday on The Chris Matthews Show, during the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment, Reihan Salam of National Review said “Conservative backlash against the TSA is just part of a huge revival of civl liberties talk on the right. We’re going to see more of it in the next couple of years.” First, all …
Most of my liberal friends (yes, true, that’s practically the only people I know) are mystified by the success of Sarah Palin. They don’t like her positions, they are condescending about her background and preparation, and they are disdainful of her intellect. For what it’s worth, the more I think about politics, the more I’ve …
Many airline passengers are rebelling at the alternatives that have been presented to them by the Transport Safety Administration. Either they have to undergo a full body scan which yields an image oddly detailed, or submit to body search (similar to the one being undergone by actress Kate Beckinscale, left.). Certainly each has its icky …
Here, as reported in The New York Times, is a reason to be thankful: `Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful and divisive Republican lawmakers ever to come out of Texas, was convicted Wednesday of money-laundering charges in a state trial, five years after his indictment here forced him to resign as majority leader in …