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A Blast from Charles Johnson’s Past

By | 04.27.09 | 8:50 am

My story about Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs turning on the more extreme members of the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere is prompting commentary from other “warbloggers” who have worried about their fringes and done occasional “purges” from their movements. Joshua Trevino comments that “lost in the shrill din of More…

Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere

By | 04.21.09 | 12:48 pm

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jazz musician and Web designer Charles Johnson has devoted his blog, Little Green Footballs, to exposing Muslim extremism in and outside the United States. His targets have included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filmmaker Michael Moore, Reuters, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), More…

Tea for the Bitter Man

By | 02.25.09 | 11:42 am

IF you read the blog of Glenn Reynolds, the libertarian-leaning Instapundit who reigns over the right-ish blogosphere with a carpal-tunnelled fist, you see mention after mention of a “new American tea party.” There’s more in an ad by Pajamas Media, a new media network of which Mr Reynolds was More…

Hating Sam Stein

By | 02.11.09 | 9:51 am

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at President Obama’s Monday press conference. Apparently, this was a pretty controversial move by the president. The Heritage Foundation More…

The Navy in the Blue-Water Blogosphere

By | 01.28.09 | 2:54 pm

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…

This Week on the Right

By | 01.23.09 | 7:02 pm

Here’s a look at some worthy articles from the right side of the blogosphere and journospheres in this, week one of the Obama presidency.

1.) James S. Robbins, “Giving Up on Guantánamo” (National Review, 1/23/09)
A representative take, from the right, on the closing of Gitmo as “domestic political More…

Do We Really Have To Call Steve Kappes A Torturer?

By | 01.06.09 | 11:50 am

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…

Obama Pledges Details on Staff Meetings with Governor’s Office

By | 12.11.08 | 12:25 pm

During a press conference this morning in Chicago, ostensibly to officially name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services and director of the White House office of health reform, Obama found himself talking mostly about the More…

The Cost of Looking Vice Presidential

By | 10.22.08 | 5:50 pm

Imagine you land a new job, and just as you start — even before you’ve had the chance to prove yourself, let alone figure out how the coffee maker works — your boss stops by your cubicle and says, “Hey, here’s $150,000. Go to town and get yourself looking good.” More…