My love for the U.S. Naval Institute’s blog is second only to my love of Coke Zero. Over the last week, the blog has sparked a far-reaching debate about how the Navy reacts or doesn’t interact with the blogosphere after a vice admiral left some comments on a More…
A lesson: When Glenn Reynolds asks whether “Barack Obama’s popularity has already plunged 15 points,” he is linking facetiously to a post that makes no sense. In this case, one by Don Surber.
Citing a Gallup Poll, the London Sun reported President Obama is
Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, read The Associated Press’ story about President-elect Barack Obama possibly ordering the military to plan the closure of Guantanamo Bay as one of his first acts in office and emailed this to reporters:
“While the news from unnamed sources in the Obama
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the support of Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel More…
I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?
This is why.
I’m in one of the two massive ballrooms of the Washington Convention Center, where in a few minutes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to present a tour of the foreign-policy horizon. That’ll kick off a day-long event sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace called More…
Marc Ambinder reported this morning that three top diplomats — Richard Haass, Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross — will be President-elect Barack Obama’s envoys to various global hellholes: Iran, Israel/Palestine, and Afghanistan/Pakistan/India. He says it’s “confirmed,” but I’ve heard otherwise.
It appears, particularly with Haass, the chairman of the More…
First Read reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director is current deputy director Steve Kappes. Kappes, unlike Leon Panetta, is a consummate intelligence professional. He played a key role in the nuclear disarmament of Libya, speaks Persian and Russian, and was purged by Porter Goss More…
It’s still just the embryonic Barack Obama administration, of course, but the light-speed downfall of Bill Richardson, Obama’s nominee for Commerce Dept. secretary, has brought back a conservative meme that had faded after Obama escaped blame in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scandals.
I should be clear: This is a More…
Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (“Bullcrap.”), suggests the work of Bay Area-based Zombie.
Internet journalist/blogger and Little Green Footballs regular Zombie (not “conservative” per se, but rather anti-sharia/anti-jihad/anti-anti-American/anti-extremist Left) did extraordinary work digging up documents
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