The media have heralded Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean as the Democratic Party establishment’s embrace of Dean’s candidacy, the golden moment the conservative Democratic leadership (!) threw out its inhibitions and accepted the people’s anointed crusader. The trouble is, Democratic Party stalwarts – correctly worried Dean’s candidacy will lead them to a landslide defeat – have had no change … [Read more...]
Archives for 2003
The Plame Affair
November 7, 2003 By
THE PARTISAN CONTROVERSY over the outing of Valerie Plame, the once-covert CIA analyst and wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, seems destined to go unresolved. Although the actions of two senior administration officials may be felonious, a city that lives on leaked information seems unlikely to produce the identity of either official involved in the leak. However, the real story in this affair is … [Read more...]
Editorial: Yale vs. the Military…Again
November 3, 2003 By
Yale Law School has once again placed leftist politics above national security. This time, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater has sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to bar military recruiters from campus. Yale’s decree of non-discrimination against gays and lesbians conflicts with Bill Clinton’s bankrupt “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and Yale would dearly love to ban all military recruiters … [Read more...]
Winning is the Best Defense
September 11, 2003 By
Some argue that 9/11 should not become a memorial but a battle cry, yet human nature seems peculiarly engineered to relive its triumphs and tragedies. Amid the commemoration of these martyrs for religious freedom, U.S. citizens can take solace in the knowledge that we are safer now than at any point in our recent history. George W. Bush’s persistent War on Terror has removed the terrorist wolves … [Read more...]
Penn’s Pontifications
June 3, 2003 By
Baghdad Sean is at it again. Sean Penn purchased a full-page ad in last Friday’s New York Times to publish a 4,000-word wandering philippic that at once assaults true patriotism, common sense and the accepted norms of English grammar. His diffuse scribblings ramble from bleeding-heart leftist myths to conspiracy theories to thinly veiled slaps at the American flag, all liberally infused with … [Read more...]
The Left’s Orwellian Use of History
May 9, 2003 By
WERE HE ALIVE TODAY, GEORGE ORWELL would be flabbergasted by the political Left's attempts to appropriate history for its own agenda. Whereas both sides of the ideological spectrum have historically sought to present themselves as the rightful heirs to mankind’s greatest leaders, the modern Left has attempted to throttle political discourse by denying conservatives’ right to even refer to many … [Read more...]
The Axis of Weasel’s Economic Ties to Saddam
April 10, 2003 By
As the sounds of cascading statues muffle the joyous cries of a liberated people, the righteousness of the United States’ cause has been vindicated before the entire world. The naysayers have watched with embarrassment as a grateful population shares harrowing tales of freed political prisoners, rejoices at the closure of Saddam’s rape rooms, and participates in the shattering of megomaniacal … [Read more...]
Iran’s Nuclear Two-Step
THE RECENT NATIONAL NEWS HEADLINE that the International Atomic Energy Agency had found “no evidence” Iran had used its illegal nuclear program to develop nuclear weapons says much more about the IAEA’s incompetence than it does the Islamic Republic’s benevolence. The choice of the headline’s focus, however, speaks volumes about media bias. “No Evidence”…. Although the IAEA revealed that … [Read more...]