Author: Donald Douglas

You know someone’s packing some REALLY powerful intellect when every other post on their blog is a Jon Stewart video. Perhaps it’s generational change, where we see a lazy kind of media-induced resistance to hard thinking and analytical reasoning, but it’s out there, and not just among hardline netroots denizens. I’m tempted to try to […]

Wonders never cease! From the Los Angeles Times, “Billy Carter’s Old Gas Station: A National Monument?“: In the age of the $787-billion stimulus package, it is, perhaps, a modest question: Should the American taxpayer foot the bill to enshrine the gas station run by the late Billy Carter — the beer-swilling, wisecracking, self-professed redneck brother […]

The headline up top is borrowed from Power Line, “Why is This Man Bowing?” (via Memeorandum): Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same […]

It’s big news. From CNN, “Accused 9/11 Plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Faces New York Trial.” And perhaps a bit dangerous. From Red State, “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Be Sent to New York for Trial.” There have been reports in the past month about another potential terrorist attack disrupted in New York City. Bringing these high […]

From Fox News, “New York-Based Radical Muslim Hails Fort Hood Massacre“:: :  :  A New York City bicycle cabbie who mocked the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl and posted a prayer on the Web calling for the murder of Jews is now sending a “Get Well Soon” message to the suspected Fort Hood gunman, the […]

From Jawa Report, here’s the webpage for Anwar al Awlaki, Nidal Malik Hasan’s religious mentor at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia. Al Awlaki boasts of the Taliban “making U.S. soldiers” cry in Afghanistan and argues for destroying enemy armies: “Establishing Islamic sharia is an obligation, and fighting in the cause of Allah […]

Publisher’s Note: It is my pleasure once again to publish a guest essay from a reader, Bill Dawson. A U.S. citizen, Bill has lived in Austria since 2000. He blogs regularly about German History rather than contemporary politics, but he has his finger on the pulse of the German-language media and offers an interesting perspective […]

The GOP establishment’s definitely getting a shake-up! This calls for some be-bopping: Okay, from CNN, “Gingrich Endorses Hoffman“: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede Scozzafava in next week’s special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Gingrich made the announcement […]

From Jamie Kirchick, “The Fork in J Street: Will the New Israel Lobby Disavow Its Extreme Left Flank?” After the introduction, Kirchick writes: In the weeks leading up to its conference, J Street was wracked by a series of controversies. The group had to cancel a poetry session after it was exposed that one of […]

People often criticize me for “dishonoring” the office of the president (the anarcho-socialist James Webb, for example), but I wrote a respectful post yesterday in response to President Obama’s visit to Dover: “Obama Honors Fallen Troops at Dover.” Sure, the president’s visit was perhaps the worst instance of political grandstanding since taking office, but knowing […]

From Michael Ledeen, at the Weekly Standard, “We Have Met the Enemy … And it is Iran“: Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan–which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information–seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor surprising. Iranians, and Iranian-trained terrorists from organizations such […]

At last weekend’s ANSWER’s “teach-in” on Afghanistan, one of the speakers was Tamara Khoury of Students Fight Back, a college protest group out of Cal State Fullerton. Ms. Koury denounced the “war economy” that was siphoning funds from public education: “I can’t get into my classes, my tuition this year was doubled, and yet hundreds […]

From the Politico, “NY-23 Race First Test of Tea Party Power” (via Memeorandum): :  Tea party activists from across the nation are rallying around the House special election in upstate New York, viewing it as the first electoral test of the nascent conservative movement’s political muscle. Organizers up and down the East Coast report that […]

The Los Angeles chapter of International ANSWER sponsored an antiwar “teach-in” on Afghanistan, October 17th at Los Angeles City College. The event was the group’s latest “local action” in its intensifying “struggle” against alleged U.S. imperialism in “Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, the Philippines, Latin America and beyond.” ANSWER is accelerating its calls for grassroots resistance to […]

If there’s one thing leftists hate more than anything else about the foreign policy of George W. Bush, it was the administration’s bold willingness to use force in defense of American interests. So as the Pentagon prepares for its Quadrennial Defense Review, leftists are getting a chance to demonize the previous administration once more (see, […]

Well at least she didn’t go out there in black face. Gay rights activists are TFU enough already, so I’m sure they didn’t need additional civil rights hypocrisy to compound the deep schisms in the Democratic Party’s homosexual coalition. As the Washington Post indicates, “For Gay Activists, The Lady Is a Champ: Fans Go Gaga […]

Well, this an unwelcomed update to my entry last night, “As Obama Dawdles, Taliban Mount Terrorist Offensive Across South Asia.” The Taliban continued their siege of South Asia Saturday morning with another brazen incursion, storming Pakistan’s military headquarters and killing 6 soldiers, with 4 militants dead in the fighting. Here’s the report at the Los […]

Well, it’s not taking long. It certainly didn’t escape the Nobel Commmittee that President Obama hasn’t actually achieved anything. So, what better way to facilitate further capitulation to the terrorists than by emoldening the Islamist/socialist alliance to bring pressure on the administration? As Fox New reports, “John Bolton, a U.N. ambassador in the Bush administration, […]

From Dean Esmay, “Is Conservatism Becoming More Muscular?“: Eric thinks so, but me, I’m not seeing it. Sure, people who call themselves conservatives are more angry right now, but they also seem a lot less thoughtful and well-informed than the conservatism I remember from 10, 20 years ago. A movement once full of stellar intellectual […]

From Pat in Shreveport, “Rachel Maddow Attacks Stacy McCain“::  Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press this morning, called Robert Stacy McCain a white supremacist. I’m thinking she’s been listening to Charles Johnson a little too much. The panel was discussing the Sarah Palin book, Going Rogue, when Maddow offers her criticism of Lynn Vincent, Palin’s […]

From the New York Times, “Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait” (via Memeorandum): President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen. The […]

Brett Stephens had a great essay last week, “The Neocons Make a Comeback.” But check out Dr. Sanity, “NEOCONSERVATIVE REALISM“: Neoconservatism has been pronounced dead by its opponents many times in the decades since its ideas were first formulated. The reasons tha these rumors of its death are constantly exaggerated is due to the fact […]

From Dan Balz, “A Republican Comeback?“: Are Republicans at a low ebb or making a comeback? The question is prompted by the new release from the Gallup organization, which showed that the gap in party identification is now the smallest it has been since 2005. Democrats are still in the lead, but not by the […]

You know, it’s bad enough that we have cowardly Congressman Alan Grayson attacking conservatives as “knuckle dragging Neanderthals.” That slur apparently received a warm welcome by the Democratic leadership. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Represenative Grayson has no need to apologize, and that’s despite widespread condemnation of Grayson from mainstream quarters. Gloria Borger decried […]

A great report at today’s Los Angeles Times, “In Canada, a Move Toward a Private Healthcare Option“: When the pain in Christina Woodkey’s legs became so severe that she could no long hike or cross-country ski, she went to her local health clinic. The Calgary, Canada, resident was told she’d need to see a hip […]

I never cease to be amazed at the despicable political opportunism of radical leftists today. The latest episode involves the death of Kimberly Young in Ohio. The 22 year-old was a recent graduate of Miami Univeristy of Ohio. She died of complications from Swine Flu after a two week struggle. Condolences go to her family […]

From Gallup’s new poll on public support for the Afghan deployment, “Americans Tilt Against Sending More Troops to Afghanistan“: Americans are more likely to say they would oppose (50%) rather than favor (41%) a possible decision by President Barack Obama to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. The possibility that Obama will need to make […]

Charles Johnson, who has launched a jihad against anyone not capitulating to his own ideological supremacism, linked the British blog Harry’s Place the other day. Note this quote there, from a post entitled, “Out of Power, Going Bonkers“: Demoralised by defeat, the moderates appear to have utterly lost control of their movement, which has become […]

Back in February, interestingly, I thought Meghan McCain had a good point when she argued that “Republicans don’t get the Internet.” Not any more. With Americans witnessing the dramatic impact of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, which along with Fox News has been the main outlet breaking the ACORN prostitution scandal, we’re really seeing the power […]

I kinda broached the possibility in one of my Glenn Beck entries the other day. Could the ACORN scandal bring down the Obama administration? It’s seems like small potatoes, really. ACORN’s under the radar for most folks, but considering the importance of the group in the president’s political ascendancy, yeah, it’s pretty serious. And of […]