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Protesters in New York City Rally Against 9/11 Trials, Call for Holder to Resign

By | 12.05.09 | 5:32 pm

NEW YORK — Despite a cold and steady rain, the 9/11 Never Forget Coalition managed to attract a few hundred people to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan today to protest Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged co-conspirators in the Sept. More…

Get ‘Going Rogue’ for $0.00!

By | 11.16.09 | 1:10 pm

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 More…

Jonah Goldberg Flirts With the ‘Ayers Wrote Obama’s Memoir’ Theory

By | 10.07.09 | 11:03 am

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

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Bad News for Marco Rubio

By | 08.20.09 | 4:27 pm

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

Andrew McCarthy Embarrasses National Review

By | 07.30.09 | 2:56 pm

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, More…

The al-Qaeda Justice Department

By | 07.17.09 | 11:01 am

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 More…

National Review on Sotomayor Cover: ‘She Has Squinty Eyes’

By | 07.10.09 | 3:48 pm

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 More…

Andy McCarthy Learns to Read

By | 07.06.09 | 9:45 am

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 —

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Why Do Liberals Hate Sarah Palin?

By | 07.02.09 | 1:41 pm

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

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I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means

By | 06.09.09 | 1:19 pm

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 More…