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The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 10, 2010 10:36 AM EST
Kevin: Andrew Biggs jumps into the ring from the top rope to join your wrestling match with Jonathan Chait. Jonah Goldberg
Jihad Watch | Links | Related | Sep 08, 2010 05:01 PM EST
And it's about time. 'This Is Where We Begin to Say No: On the Ground Zero mosque, Americans reject the opinion elites that empower the Islamists,' by the peerless Andrew McCarthy at National Review , September 8: [...] Americans have had our fill. We are willing to live many lies. This one, though, strikes too close to home, arousing our heretofore dormant sense of decency. Americans have now heard Barack Obama's shtick enough times to know that when he talks about 'our values,' he's really talking about his values, which most of us don't share. And after ten years of CAIR's tired tirades, we're immune to Feisal Rauf, too. We look around us and we see our country unrivaled by anything in the history of human tolerance. We see thousands of thriving mosques, permitted to operate freely even though we...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Sep 07, 2010 04:51 PM EST
TWS senior editor Andrew Ferguson's latest Commentary column is available online: Peter Beinart is one of those journalists, common in Washington, who is less interesting for what he says than for who he is, or who he wants to be thought to be. He’s an exemplar, and when, this May, he published an essay in the New York Review of Books announcing that “morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral,” he deserved the considerable notice that the article brought him. As a piece of reasoned argument, or even as an anguished moral plea, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” was a mess: a goulash of overstatement, baseless accusation, statistical sleight-of-hand, strategic omission, and wince-making self-regard. As a piece of attention-getting, however, it was a masterstroke, and it’s on...
The Volokh Conspiracy | Links | Related | Sep 06, 2010 08:42 PM EST
(Kenneth Anderson) “Say goodbye to Mr. Chips with his tattered tweed jacket; today’s senior professors can afford Marc Jacobs.” Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — And What We Can Do About It. I share many of the concerns expressed in Christopher Shea’s Sunday NYT book review essay, The [...]
RCP Blog | Links | Related | Sep 03, 2010 05:07 PM EST
Let's just say Andrew Ferguson doesn't have the warm and cuddlies for Peter Beinart and leave it at that, shall we?
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Sep 03, 2010 05:06 PM EST
The massive revolving door between the mainstream media and the Obama administration has spun once again, this time as former White House budget director Peter Orszag signs on as a New York Times op/ed columnist. Orszag is the eighteenth individual ( that we know of ) to transition between the White House and the mainstream press. He will surely not be the last. That amazingly high number again underscores the ideological similarities between members of the Obama administration and members of the press. The New York Times Co. broke the news in a press release today: 'We welcome Peter Orszag's expertise and insight to our Op-Ed lineup,' said Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York Times. 'As a Washington insider and one of the most recognizable names in economics, his writing will...
Atlas Shrugs | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 10:39 PM EST
Despite the overwhelming evidence that radical Imam and rat and roach slumlor Feisal Rauf has ties to extremists (Qaradawi, Tantawi) and terror organizations (Perdana Organization) and is funded by Al Qaeda/Bin Laden corporations, and one of the financial backers of the Rauf's Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan contributed to Hamas, socialist dynasty heir and silver spooned Andrew Cuomo proclaimed that he will defy the will of the people and the rule of law to protect and defend the public, and will not investigate the shady funding behind the $150 million needed to build the Ground Zero mega mosque. Reason enough to cast your vote for Carl Paladino. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. More on Cuomo to come. NY1 reporting here State Attorney General and gubernatorial hopeful...
The Corner | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 10:35 PM EST
Via the Daily Telegraph : Russia’s finance minister has told people to smoke and drink more, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services. Speaking as the Russian government announces plan to raise duty on alcohol and cigarettes, Alexei Kudrin said that by smoking a pack, “you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates”. “People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state,” he told the Interfax news agency. Andrew Stuttaford
Jihad Watch | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 07:06 AM EST
Trouble for religious minorities in Iraq is on the increase. 'Remember religion's role in Iraq,' by The Rev'd Canon Dr. Andrew P B White in the Washington Post , August 31 (thanks to AINA ): The withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq is a significant event for the religious communities and those, who like me, serve those communities in Iraq. Even as U.S. troops leave, it is important to know that violence here is on the increase. We are in the midst of war. As I write this, I hear rockets blasting and my people are afraid. By my people I mean Iraqi Christians, but I am involved with all religious groups here: the majority Shia, the smaller Sunni Muslims and all the minority groups. The minority religious communities here have very little faith in the Iraqi forces; many are actually scared of them....
Tim Blair | Links | Related | Sep 02, 2010 02:35 AM EST
Moralising drone Andrew Wilkie backs Labor: Mr Wilkie - one of four independents left holding the balance of power in the House…
WSJ.com: Washington Wire | Links | Related | Sep 01, 2010 11:25 AM EST
The latestQuinnipiac poll in New York shows Andrew Cuomo well ahead of his Republican rivals in the governor's race, and Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, once thought to be among the vulnerable incumbents this year, the clear frontrunner in her contest.
Red County | Links | Related | Aug 28, 2010 09:27 PM EST
Post To County: McLean County (IL) Post to Other County: If you would like to post in any additional counties please list the counties and why in this text area. ShareThis McLean County Pundit invited to cover Right Nation 2010 -Chicago event: . . . at least ten of Illinois’ most talked about bloggers have agreed to make public appearances at Right Nation 2010′s Activist Training Conference in the afternoon hours leading up to the Right Nation 2010 Convention Saturday night, September 18th. They’ll be joining the controversial Andrew Breitbart, founder of BigGovernment.com and reporting on Glenn Beck’s keynote later in the evening. These gutsy,...
Power Line | Links | Related | Aug 28, 2010 09:44 AM EST
(Scott) Prominent Islamic leaders, like the imam fronting the Ground Zero Mosque, have a difficult time answering straightforward questions such as: Is Hamas a terrorist organization? Even if they can deal with that not very difficult question, they tend to stumble over this one: Does Israel have a right to exist? As a Jewish state? Andrew McCarthy explains why these questions tend to stump Islamic leaders when speaking to Western journalists. McCarthy's column demonstrates in some detail that the United States has been penetrated by followers of the Muslim Brotherhood seeking to expand the realm of Islam. As the Communists had their useful idiots (thank you, Mona Charen), the Islamists have theirs. Among them is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who adds disgrace (thank you, Debra...
Astute Bloggers | Links | Related | Aug 26, 2010 06:36 PM EST
'The time has come to call things by their proper names: a theocracy that applies the precepts of sharia to its society today, is one that violates individual rights, discriminates between its citizens and oppresses its women and its religious minorities.' So speaks Dr Elham Mana'e, a Yemenite living in Switzerland. Christians murdered in pogrom by muslims in Nigeria The rest here from Andrew Bostom.
Cato-at-liberty | Links | Related | Aug 17, 2010 04:22 PM EST
By Andrew J. Coulson An anonymous contributor to the NY Times Freakonomics blog asks “How much does school choice matter?” And answers in much the way you might expect: Probably less than you think, as [economist Stephen] Levitt has previously argued. Now, in an analysis of seven years of test-score data from 6,000 Los Angeles teachers, the L.A. Times and [...]
Power Line | Links | Related | Aug 15, 2010 09:11 PM EST
The 'Jobsgate' story seems to have taken another turn. Readers will recall that Joe Sestak, the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania, stated back in February that the Obama White House offered him a job if he would decline to challenge incumbent Arlen Specter. The White House eventually admitted that it did indeed offer a position to Sestak and, in addition, offered a choice of three jobs to Andrew Romanoff if he would back out of the Senate race in Colorado. In a memo written by the White House counsel's office, the administration stated that Rahm Emanuel 'enlisted' Bill Clinton in its effort to induce Sestak to concede the nomination to Specter. According to the memo, Clinton 'agreed to raise with Congressman Sestak' potential job 'options' that were to be considered as...
Jihad Watch | Links | Related | Aug 14, 2010 09:15 AM EST
Our June 6 protest Stand up and join us at our FDI/SIOA 9/11 rally against the Ground Zero mega-mosque on September 11 at 2pm at Park Place, between Church Street and West Broadway. Confirmed list of speakers joining Pamela Geller and me at the FDI/SIOA demonstration: 911 WTC families Ambassador John Bolton Newt Gingrich Geert Wilders, Dutch Parliamentarian NY Senate Candidate Gary Berntsen Jordan Sekulow (ACLJ) Ginny Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Michael Grimm, Staten Island House of Representatives, 911 First Responder Andrew Breitbart Join the largest Caravan in America coming cross-country to 9-11 Rally. For those of you who do not use Facebook and want to join a carpool and the Caravan, send your info to starsandstripescaravan@yahoo.com. Give your...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | Links | Related | Aug 13, 2010 04:32 PM EST
Recent discussions about libertarian philosophy and intellectual property got me thinking about Andrew Galambos, the not-very-well-remembered Southern California based libertarian lecturer active in the 1960s and 1970s (and original libertarian inspiration to former LP candidate and best-selling author Harry Browne .) Galambos famously had a vision of intellectual property so strict his followers didn't feel it just to ever discuss his ideas openly. But one Galambos ally, Jan Snelson, continued lecturing in the Galambosian spirit and his vision of the Galambos libertarian vision is now available to sample or purchase on MP3 via the 'V-50' website . It makes me want to take a moment like a character in a 1920s Gernsbackian SF utopia story to marvel and explain to everyone these amazing...
Worldwide Standard | Links | Related | Aug 13, 2010 04:30 PM EST
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a very interesting column this week examining the signal sent by GM’s purchase of AmeriCredit. The short answer: GM looks like it’s trying to revive the old patterns of demand before the recession. It’s doing so by following some of the same business practices that led to its bankruptcy filing last summer. AmeriCredit currently serves 11,000 dealerships, but only 4,000 of those are associated with GM. The company has plans to expand across all auto companies: It recently announced to investors that loan originations could total as much as $900 million over the last quarter (ending June 30), up from $175 million over the same period one year earlier. GM’s recent purchase of AmeriCredit was designed to put the company on a level playing field with its competitors (Ford and...
Megan McArdle | Links | Related | Aug 13, 2010 04:13 PM EST
Matthew Yglesias has some smart things to say about the somewhat wishful comparisons between Obama and Reagan's somewhat similar poll numbers: But I think Andrew Sabl draws too much solace from this fact. Look at how robustly the economy rebounded from that downturn: The Office of Management and Budget projected real growth rates of 4.3%, 4.3%, and 4.2% for 2011, 2012, and 2013 which is much worse. OMB's forecast is also generally thought to be overly optimistic. The 'Morning in America' year of 1984 featuring a real growth rate of over seven percent. If that happens in 2012, Obama will indeed cruise to re-election, become incredibly popular, and make fools of his rivals. But the administration's economic policymakers don't believe that will happen and don't have a strategy for attempting...
Wizbang | Links | Related | Aug 11, 2010 11:40 PM EST
Whoops! Sorry, but I missed Rick's post on this same story a couple posts down. Andrew Malcolm at the LA Times' Top of the Ticket brings us this great story...
Red County | Links | Related | Aug 11, 2010 12:53 PM EST
In this episode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I interview columnist Chuck Morse, author of the book, 'The Nazi Connection To Islamic Terrorism.' Next, we discuss the recent court ruling on California's Proposition 8. In our moment of truth segment we have Andrew Klaven with 'Klaven on the Culture.' Next we talk about University liberal bias and we read viewer mail. To listen to the show click here
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Aug 11, 2010 12:28 PM EST
Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin made a rare appearance on Wednesday's Good Morning America and highlighted the issue of Democratic corruption. Co-host George Stephanopoulos responded to criticisms of a Colorado Democrat by touting White House talking points. Malkin made the point, almost entirely ignored on GMA, that now-defeated candidate Andrew Romanoff was apparently offered administration jobs in order to not challenge the incumbent senator. Stephanopoulos promptly defended, ' Which I should say, [the allegations] were denied by Romanoff and by the White House about whether or not he was offered a job to get him out of the way. ' [MP3 audio here .] Malkin then mentioned e-mails released by the Denver Post backing up the claim of job offers. This prompted the former Democratic operative turned...
American Spectator | Links | Related | Aug 11, 2010 11:32 AM EST
The Colorado primary was another example of conservative activists beating the Republican establishment while liberal activists lose to the Democratic establishment. Tea Party favorite Ken Buck won, liberal darling Andrew Romanoff lost. Michael Bennet's primary win follows the renomination of Blanche Lincoln and Jane Harman, though Joe Sestak did beat Arlen Specter. One thing that complicates the Bennet-Romanoff race is that President Obama joined the party establishment in backing the incumbent while Bill Clinton supported the challenger. The Atlantic plays up Obama's role in Bennet's victory while this Associated Press report has Bennet hedging on that point. Bennet's take seems to be, 'Thanks for the help Barack, but don't come back !'
The Corner | Links | Related | Aug 11, 2010 11:27 AM EST
In Colorado last night, Andrew Romanoff lost, Sen. Michael Bennet survived, and President Obama once again irked the “professional Left.” Romanoff, with support from the progressive activists and Bill Clinton, was unable to topple Bennet, the Obama-backed incumbent, in the Democratic Senate primary. Obama, of course, remains toxic for Democrats in general elections (see Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia), but his primary punch is strengthened by the outcome. Unlike Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, Bennet was able to overcome Team Obama's clumsy job offers — the White House allegedly tried to woo Romanoff out of the race with an administration gig — as well as the Beltway stench. With Obama’s help, he swatted and maimed a dashing young lefty. For the president, it’s a Pyrrhic victory: He flexed his...
Cato-at-liberty | Links | Related | Aug 09, 2010 08:28 AM EST
By Andrew J. Coulson At the Techonomy conference last week, Bill Gates declared that going to school would soon be obsolete, and that ”five years from now, on the web, for free, you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world.” What’s interesting is that Bill was quick to note that he was talking only of higher education. K-12 [...]
NewsBusters | Links | Related | Aug 09, 2010 07:03 AM EST
Last Wednesday, Chris Matthews wildly attacked Fox for acting like 'stooges' for Republican candidates like Sharron Angle to come on and promote their candidacies. It turns out that on the very same day on his national radio show, Ed Schultz was talking up how excited he was for 'stooge' work for the Democrats on MSNBC: I'm excited about the fact that now that I've been at MSNBC for over a year now, year and a half, this is the first election cycle that I get to go through with a TV show. I'll show those son of a guns over at Fox how to promote candidates. I'll do a great job doing that! [Michigan gubernatorial candidate] Virg Bernero will be on the tube tonight, a winner yesterday. Next up will be next Wednesday after the Tuesday primary in Colorado where Andrew Romanoff is going to defeat Mr....
Gateway Pundit | Links | Related | Aug 06, 2010 06:20 PM EST
-By Warner Todd Huston You've got to hand it to the good folks at Mediaite. These guys are on top of everything in the media world. This time Mediaite has uncovered the fact that Media Matters, the left-biased media slanderers paid for by George Soros, have been caught doing precisely what they claimed that New Media maven Andrew Breitbart did to Shirely Sherrod a few weeks ago. Namely foisted an edited tape on the world in order to slander someone in the public eye. This time, instead of revealing a race worried USDA official, Media Matters is attempting to put false words in the mouths of a pair of side kicks of radio and TV talker Glenn Beck. Media Matters touted what they felt was a big, big story. They claimed that two of Beck's sidekicks were falsely claiming that MSNBC host Keith...
American Spectator | Links | Related | Aug 06, 2010 07:05 AM EST
Today on the Main Site: A Losing Proposition by W. James Antle, III: Contrary to the decision overturning Proposition 8, all Americans have standing in the marriage debate. Obama Cripples Ford's Funding, Then Subsidizes It by John Berlau & Andrew Kwiatkowski: Ronald Reagan had Obama figured out years ago. A Coup for the FCC by The Prowler: Unfortunately, it's of the leftist Obamaite, regulate the Internet by fiat persuasion. Mysteries of Economics by Ben Stein: There's gold in them thar hills. Starving ObamaCare by Philip Klein: Could a new GOP majority win a government shutdown battle over defunding the national health care law? From our July-August issue. The Taliban's BFF by George H. Wittman: The U.S. well knows that the...
Red County | Links | Related | Aug 06, 2010 06:42 AM EST
Andrew Bostom , NER conributor, had an interesting historical footnote to the current ground zero mosque controversy. In a blog post and interview with radio talk show Host Michael Graham, he revealed that in the 1950's, the US State Department, at the urging of Muslim consulates in New York requested and got New York City with the consent of seven appelate court judges, to remove a statue of Mohammed among a group of 'legendary' lawgivers adorning an appelate court roof in lower Mid-Town Manhattan. Bostom noted in his blog post , 'NYC’s Insane Capitulation to Islam, Circa 1955—Past as Prologue?' Past as Prologue, 55 years ago?—Elegant statue of Muhammad “quietly” removed from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse on Madison Square, New York City in...
