9-24-2009

Tom Maguire: Yet another spring fling that faded with the falling leaves - Obama is adopting the Bush position on indefinite detention and won’t vex Congress with a request for enabling legislation.
Ed Driscoll: “It is the elephant in the middle of the room, that everybody knows it’s a corrupt organization. And that every aspect of [...]

9-23-2009

Ed Morrissey: About that Arctic ice disappearance …Scientifically, what does this tell us about the climate-change models used to make this hysterical claim?
Sen Mitch McConnell: Is this what we believe as a Senate — that this body should debate a trillion-dollar health care bill that affects every American while using the powerful arm of government [...]

9-22-2009

Bill Roggio: Today, the military is perceiving that the administration is punting the question of a troop increase in Afghanistan, and the military is even questioning the administration’s commitment to succeed in Afghanistan. The leaking of the assessment and the report that McChrystal would resign if he is not given what is needed to succeed [...]

9-21-2009

NEA CONFERENCE CALL AUDIO AND TRANSCRIPT: “tell our country and our young people sort of what to do and what to be in to; and what’s cool and what’s not cool.”
“Official” culture is always unseemly, especially when the connections between officials and the ostensible creators are hidden from the audience.
Ed Morrissey: If true, the White [...]

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009

Why do we need an International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Make no mistake. We do. Before we go any further, there’s something we need to be clear about. Pirates were and are bad people. Really reprehensible. Even the most casual exploration of the history of pirates (and believe us, casual is an accurate description [...]