Author: Donald Douglas

Follow up to John’s essay: “My Short, Obligatory Obama Speech Review.” *********** I anticipated the president’s address in my previous post, “President Barack Obama Claims Credit on Iraq War.” I can’t add too much here, except to reiterate that I’m ashamed at Obama’s political posturing. I’m ashamed at Obama’s political opportunism, and I wish for […]

For all of the socialism and Islamist-appeasement of this administration, the one thing that has bothered me the most about this president (and candidate in 2007-08) is his screechingly perverse antiwar ideology and opportunism. Barack Obama was the most antiwar Senator in Congress throughout 2007 and in 2008 he tried to play both sides of […]

Tweets Amanda Carpenter: More photos at Instapundit and Weasel Zippers. Michelle will be linking pics throughout the day, and she has this: We’re hearing a lot about people criticizing the timing of the event, calling it insensitive for having the rally on the anniversary of Dr. King’s speech – but since most of this criticism […]

I love this! From the House GOP Conference: While President Obama and Vice President Biden continue to seek credit for “ending the combat mission” in Iraq, this video praises the contributions of our troops for helping bring greater stability and security there — significant progress that was only made possible through a surge strategy most […]

After yesterday’s smackdown, Charles Johnson is doing Olympian twists and turns (safe link) to try to salvage his “right-wing bigotry and hatred” slander regarding the New York cabdriver attack. To see people like this is to witness those who inhabit another world apart from reality. It’s a world that Melanie Phillips explained in The World […]

At U.S. News: One of Washington’s principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the […]

See, “Charles Johnson Blames Right-Wing ‘Bigotry’ and ‘Hatred’ for Leftist Non-Profit Employee’s Attack on New York Muslim Cabdriver.” And as always, lot’s more good stuff at American Power.

At JWF: Obviously a Michael Bloomberg and Barack Obama supporter. Classy guy. He calls the old man an unpatriotic, treasonous piece of garbage. A shame how the lamestream media ignored this. Cross-posted from American Power.

So much for moderate Muslims repudiating jihad: Experts worry the controversy surrounding an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing right into the hands of radical extremists. The supercharged debate over the proposed center has attracted the attention of a quiet, underground audience – young Muslims who drift in and out of […]

The full post is here, “Imam Rauf’s Hush-Hush Taxpayer-Subsidized Middle East Tour – Plus, Inside the Victory Mosque’s Shady Washington-Riyadh Finance Trail“.” ********** Tammy Bruce identifies Imam Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan as “Obama’s favorite Hillary Clinton Department funded Islamists.” And while “Little Miss Daisy” made some rounds on the Sunday talk show circuit, […]

Claire Berlinski lives in Istanbul. She’s got an interesting blog post, “Is Islam Itself the Enemy?“, and there’s a raging debate on her Facebook page. This comment struck me as profound: I’ve just walked down a street filled literally with thousands of Moslems of exactly the kind many people are seriously arguing do not exist. […]

I’ve got a beefy post on this: “Daisy Khan: Moving Islamic Center ‘Not’ On the Table for Now.” But watch the clip. Leftists keep talking about “interfaith understanding,” but you’re not getting it from the Victory Mosque developers. What a bleedin’ scam: And more great posting over at American Power.

Well, since I’ve got a FULL CONTENT WARNING video at the post, I think I’ll just send folks over to my place. And as always, great blogging all night and tomorrow at American Power.

In other big news today, “Code Pink Tells Gold Star Mom: Your Son Deserved to Die.” In 2008 they [Code Pink] barricaded the recruiting office in Berkeley with the blessing of the Berkeley City Council. We at Move America Forward had all we could stomach when we heard them tell the Marines they were unwelcome, […]

The movie’s homepage is here. I saw the film Friday afternoon, and I’ve reviewed it here: “Thoughts on ‘A Film Unfinished’.” And as always, more great commentary and analysis throughout the weekend at American Power.

Combine Bush-hatred and exteme political desperation and it looks like the Democrats have arrived on a party platform for November. They’re right, though: The choice is clear. We can vote for a president and party who are presiding over massive and rising unemployment nationally and in the high double-digits in Democratic states. The horrible job […]

That’s a key quote from Pamela’s lecture last night. She actually prefaced that by saying “You have no idea how much terrorism Israel absorbs” from the Middle East, thus providing the West with a bit of under-appreciated inoculation from Jihad. This was an extremely interesting point. I was really impressed with Robert Spencer‘s profound knowledge […]

O-Box Cutters. At American Digest: At Barack Hussein Obama’s taxpayer-funded Ramadan dinner last night, not only did the alleged president give the assembled Muslims the tremendous gift of support for building the Ground Zero mosque, but he also gifted them with the multi-purpose “Presidential Seal Boxcutter” which will soon be available in the Cordoba House […]

I’ve long written about this – most recently at “Progressives Are Communists (If You Didn’t Know“). It’s a done deal now. Leftists can quit lying about it. The Democratic Party is a socialist party. (I call them commies, and while there’s some additional steps in the Marxist dialectic before you get there, the ultimate destination […]

Byron York calls Obama’s Ground Zero statements “Clintonian“: … there is simply no doubt that Obama’s Friday evening speech, in the context in which it was delivered, was an endorsement of the Ground Zero project. It was certainly widely understood as such. The headlines of the three New York papers reporting the speech were: “Obama […]

A couple of posts this morning: * “Bloody WikiLeaks.” * “Pfc. Bradley Manning, Atheist Gay Loner, Hailed as Antiwar Hero in Criminal WikiLeaks Case.” And more blogging throughout the day at American Power.

I’m still astounded that idiots like Charles Johnson make the unbeatably peurile argument that the mosque is “two blocks away from Ground Zero.” It’s really not a matter if distance. It’s the symbolism. Still, how close is close enough? A landing gear away? Above photo: A piece of the landing gear that crashed into the […]

Via Tammy Bruce: Ronald Brownstein referred to “lunch-bucket” Americans in a recent piece on Democratic Party weaknesses: “Dems Face Losses In Blue-Collar Districts: The House districts of the late John Murtha and retiring David Obey are lunch-bucket Democratic seats that may turn Republican in the fall.” I’m still trying to figure out the upside for […]

At Wall Street Journal (via Daily Caller): WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama defended the plan to build a mosque near the site of the 2001 terror attacks in New York, telling Muslim guests at a Ramadan dinner at the White House that the nation’s commitment to freedom of religion “must be unshakable.” RTWT. The White House has […]

At MAinfo, “September 11th Was NOT About ‘Optics’ as Kos Kook Says“: What a bunch of whiny, immature fools write over at the Daily Kos. They are upset because our memories of 9/11 get in the way of their progressive agenda. And by minimizing that happened that day, they hope to get beyond it. But […]

I’m missing something. Either that, or Portia de Rossi’s gone badly off the radical feminist reservation: If you take your husband’s name, you must be dependent and incompetent. If you don’t, of course, you’re a ball-busting feminist – or that even more pitiable creature, someone without a husband at all. And, in most cases, you […]

I love the fact that you can almost take out Obama and Osama at the same time. But seriously, I’d say the leftist outrage is a bit much, since everything from guillotines to Bush assassination movies greeted the 43rd occupant of the White House. Well, at least it gives desperate lefties another chance to scream […]

Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, previously at Foreign Affairs, “Preserving the American Deterrent“: The success of nuclear deterrence may turn out to be its own undoing. Nuclear weapons helped keep the peace in Europe throughout the Cold War, preventing the bitter dispute from engulfing the continent in another catastrophic conflict. But after nearly 65 years […]

This Ground Zero controversy is shaping up as a defining political and security issue in American politics, timed perfectly for the 9th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. I’ve commented previously at length. It’s to the point that folks left and right are talking past each other and it’s doubtful a whole lot of additional […]

It’s one thing when you have communist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewing convicted computer hacker and communist activist Julian Assange on the U.S. government’s response to WikLeaks. It’s quite another thing when mainstream newspaper editors also come down on the side of the WikiLeaks/communist alliance. But that’s what’s happening today at LAT, “WikiLeaks and […]