Author: Donald Douglas

See the full report, with photos, at American Power: “David Horowitz at ‘Securing America’s Future’ in Beverly Hills.” An excerpt: While I was impressed with both Cliff May and Mona Charen — and I was thrilled at the chance to see them speak — the night truly belonged to David Horowitz. During the audience question […]

Cross-posted from American Power. ********** At CNN, “Nearly three-fourths say recession not over” (via Glenn Reynolds): Economic experts may believe the recession is over, but try telling that to the public. Seventy-four percent of Americans believe the economy is still in a recession, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll. Only 25 percent think […]

Cross-posted from American Power. ********** At New York Times (via Memeorandum, iOWNTHEWORLD, and Pirate’s Cove): Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents and save their Congressional majority. […]

Cross-posted from American Power. ********** Last I heard Jerry Brown was running a shoestring campaign, but he’s come up with the cash for a major ad buy with this clip, “Serious.” And that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Seriously? That’s all he’s got? A pledge for no new taxes without voter approval, just like the current […]

Via Chicks on the Right, “Mike Malloy … should never be dressed in anything other than a straight jacket.” And cross-posted from American Power. Mike Malloy is an Atlanta-based talk radia host. His show used to appear on Air America Radio and he’s a contributor at Huffington Post. Thus, there’s no doubt of this guy’s […]

She’s a beautiful woman, and she’s moving up in the movie world. Ben Affleck talks with Blake Lively at Interview, c/o American Power.

See, “Protesting Ahmadinejad: International Community Walks Out on Iran President’s Speech at U.N.”

John Schwarzman sent me this fabulous clip. More information at Freedom Works. Cross-posted from American Power.

That’s a pretty harsh castigation. Via Breitbart TV and Memeorandum. And this is local to me as well. I drive through this Garden Grove congressional district on my way to work. The Vietnamese are hardly “anti-immigrant.” And of course the O.C.’s historically been home to the biggest Vietnamese community in the nation, initially composed of […]

Following the recent flame war, I found my name slurred with the most vile racist comment at one of the leftist hate-blogs. And as I write at the conclusion of my response: I know the moral clarity that is my trademark. Such hatred only strengthens me for the fight ahead. Conservatives are turning the tide […]

I had a brief exchange the other day with Brendan of BJKeefe blog. I don’t normally go over there, but his link showed up in my Sitemeter and I found a post suggesting that someone should “take the shovel away from Donald Douglas.” Brendon apparently thinks leftist demonization is a barrel of monkeys, and as […]

Here’s how Maureen Dowd describes Christine O’Donnell: This anti-abortion, anti-masturbation, anti-premarital-sex, anti-stem-cells, anti-gay-marriage, dubious-about-evolution Christian conservative has rocked politics by snatching the Delaware Republican nomination for the Senate away from the seemingly sure-thing moderate Mike Castle. Interestingly, Dowd goes on to say “We the People in the Ruling Class Elites do think O’Donnell comes across […]

From my entry today, smashing the commie haters at Sadly No! … Man, when you’re subjected to a leftist death-wish campaign of this magnitude, you know you’re really over the target! ” :  So, yeah, you know it’s hard out there in the ‘hood sometimes. But when you be hangin’ low you toughen up, mofo! […]

That’s Molly Norris of Seattle. She was placed on an “execution hit list” by fanatical Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki. FBI recommended a change of identity and complete relocation and seclusion. It’s kinda unreal. I understand the fears. But I’m sick to my stomach (and my heart) that it’s come to this. Anyone speaking out against Islamist […]

See the full report: “Faith, Freedom, and Memory: Report From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010.” I took hundreds of pictures. I’m still going through them, and will post more later. It’s hard to describe just how meaningful it was for me to travel to New York to cover the event on my blog, but mostly […]

Programming Note: I will be reporting on the 9/11 memorials and mosque protest at Ground Zero today. Expect an update late Saturday/early Sunday. And from last night: “Safe Landing in New York!” ********* The first clip is Part I from a Port Authority documentary, made in 1983. Interesting. At bottom is a Fox News report […]

Imam Rauf claims that he has “a responsibility” to build the mosque, otherwise radical Islamists around the world will threaten “national security.” In other words, screw the sensitivity concerns of Americans, you’ll be blown to bits if you don’t back off from my Victory Mosque. See Atlas Shrugs, “Ground Zero Supremacist Imam Rauf Threatens America: […]

I had to catch myself for a second. Sides with the Obama administration on terrorist rendition? The ruling is on “extraordinary rendition,” of course. The policy for which leftists wanted Bush administration war crimes trials. And now we’ve got Barack Obama in power continuing the policy. Hey, way to “regain America’s moral stature in the […]

I tweeted Markos Moulitsas yesteday, with the link to my review of his book: “Misunderstanding Markos Moulitsas and American Taliban.” He’s a netroots bigshot, of course, so he’s ignoring me. Fine. I’ll tweet him again a little later. He can “behead this,” as far as I’m concerned. (The reference is to the Ring of Fire […]

Actually, no. See, “The Myth of the Struggling Antiwar Movement.” The old-fashioned understanding of the “antiwar” movement hardly explains the left’s anti-everything protest agenda nowadays. But wouldn’t you know it, the folks at Politico played right into the sweaty palms of America’s domestic enemies with its whitewash of a report: “Anti-war groups battle for survival” […]

Via Bare Naked Islam, “While Netanyahu and Abbas meet in Washington to humor the clueless American foreign policy decider-in-chief … Muslim radicals and their diehard leftie supporters (i.e., Code Pinko) gather in Washington to call for the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel“: And at the Investigative Project on Terrorism, “Another Islamist Rally for […]

The New York Times decided to use its major story on the World Trade Center Sunday to hammer critics of the proposed Victory Mosque at Ground Zero. Indeed, the Times basically claims it’s time to bury the hallowed terminology of “Ground Zero” altogether. I guess that’s just so much Bush-era jingoism in the new age […]

More details and photos here: “My Buddy’s 1913 American Underslung Traveler Type 56A 7 Passenger Touring.” My youngest son and I visited my good friend and colleague Saturday afternoon. He showed us his car, estimated at about $1.3 million, out in his garage in temporary storage: More photos at the link. And more blogging at […]

Astute Bloggers breaks the story, once again. But see BBC story (via Memeorandum). This is a feature interview with the former prime minister, on the eve of the publication of his memoirs, where he indicates that: “There is the most enormous threat from the combination of this radical extreme movement and the fact that, if […]

Newsweek‘s Jonathan Alter just doesn’t get it. See, “‘The Illustrated Man’.” Obama’s certainly socialist — or neo-socialist, as Jonah Goldberg has explained — and that’s to say nothing of “terror-coddling.” Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the […]

At FrontPage Magazine, David Horowitz has some background on his new book, Reforming Our Universities: The campaign we launched can only be understood in the context of previous developments in higher education. The modern research university was created in the second half of the 19th Century during the era of America’s great industrial expansion, its […]

Astute Bloggers has the scoop, and it is big. See New York Times, “New York Poll Finds Wariness About Muslim Center.” (And click the image for the full survey.) The most amazing thing here to me is that a full 69 percent of those polled approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance, but an almost […]

Figures. See Politico, “Few Options for Barack Obama on 9/11“: Every year it’s a challenge for the White House: how to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. This year is especially awkward, given the controversy around President Barack Obama’s remarks in support of an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned for a neighborhood near […]

I’ve laid out a full analysis here: “Biden Grudgingly Credits Bush on Success of Iraq Surge.” But check the clip. Man, this guy is hatin’ it! Can’t give the dreaded Bush neocons the slightest acknowledgement of firmness and resolve, not to mention pragmatism and smarts: