national review

National Review is riding the Sarah Palin phenomenon this week with a blog all about “Going Rogue,” but Newsmax.com is really setting the standard – it’s offering copies of the book either for free or for $4.99 with different subscription deals. (I first saw this offer on TV while I was in a Rochester, N.Y. [...]

The author of “Liberal Fascism” falls hook, line and sinker for Bill Ayers’ joke about serving as Barack Obama’s ghostwriter.
I am not sure what to make of the story that Ayers has now admitted to writing Obama’s autobiography. If it pans out, that is to my mind a very big story. Stay tuned. But I [...]

He’s made the cover of National Review. Why worry about that? Well …

He should, anyway. The conspiracy-minded attorney responds to the magazine’s measured denunciation of the “birther” movement with a 3,700-word rant about how his president “presents complex dual-citizenship issues” and how his magazine let the scoundrel off too easy. You could spend an entire afternoon picking this apart, starting with McCarthy’s decision to rely on “a [...]

The latest in high-minded criticism from National Review’s in-house conspiracy theorist Andy McCarthy. He’s infuriated because Jennifer Daskal from Human Rights Watch is working at the Justice Department, as she — get the smelling salts ready — worked for years to bring the Bush administration’s detentions and interrogations regime in line with civilized understandings of [...]

It went largely without notice, but in its last issue (with the “Beauty of Drilling” cover), National Review’s editors responded to criticism over its “Wise Latina” cover of Sonia Sotomayor, which portrayed the judge as a Buddha. In “The Week,” the front-of-the-book roundup of news, editors made fun of “lefty bloggers” who found the cover [...]

National Review’s conspiracy-minded legal writer is angry, furious, shocked at a weekend New York Times story on President Obama’s approach to nuclear disarmament:
[N]early six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya [...]

Ed Kilgore’s analysis of the reignited strategists-vs-Sarah Palin slow-news-week imbroglio is on the mark:
This base of support for Palin — maybe not that large, but very passionate, and very powerful in places like the Iowa Republican Caucuses — isn’t going to abandon her just because the Serious People in the GOP laugh her off in [...]

National Review’s Andrew Stuttaford reports, in disgust, on protesters disrupting a British National Party press conference by tossing eggs and chanting “off our streets, Nazi scum.”

Fighting fascism the fascist way, I guess.
I suppose there are more polite ways of interrupting a Holocaust denier’s speech, but what’s “fascist” about it? Would Stuttaford cry “fascism” if, say, [...]

The Weekly Standard and Greg Sargent are both reporting that the House Democratic leadership is boldly (my characterization, not the Standard’s) standing up to the White House and the Senate, which last week passed an amendment to the appropriations bill that would allow Obama to keep those much-discussed detainee abuse photos secret.
The Lieberman-Graham Amendment, also [...]