Monthly Archives: April 2006

April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

Video Volunteers Wanted

On April 10, pro-illegal immigration groups held demonstrations across the country. We put out a call to readers with video cameras to attend rallies and send us the video footage. This was a short-notice effort, but we got lots of good video, which resulted in a short movie that you can view here. Our post describing the demonstrations, and the significance of the video footage shot by our readers, is »
April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

Blog of the Week: Tom Joscelyn

This week’s Blog of the Week is Thomas Joscelyn. Tom is an economist and writer who lives in New York. Like us, he is no techie. But over the last year or two he has become justly famous as one of the most informed and perceptive commentators on the global war on terror and intelligence issues. He also writes for the Daily Standard. You can follow Tom’s posts on Power »
April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

Terrorist Attack in Egypt

Multiple bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab have left more than 100 people dead or wounded. This is the third year in a row that Egyptian resorts have been attacked by terrorists. This may be relevant: Dahab is becoming known as the Goa of the Red Sea due to its bohemian lifestyle, multi-cultural beach restaurants relaxed attitude to cannabis use and growing tourist trade. Via Power Line News. »
April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

Don’t You Know There’s a War On?

We have been talking for several years about the covert war that elements of the federal bureaucracy, especially inside the CIA, have been waging against the Bush administration. Today, at NRO’s The Corner, Andy McCarthy does an excellent job of placing recent revelations about CIA leaker Mary McCarthy’s support for John Kerry and the Democratic Party in the context of that war: McCarthy’s situation cannot be considered in a vacuum. »
April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

As the Senate Goes…

…so goes the House. That’s the argument that Jay Cost makes at Real Clear Politics, and it’s an interesting one. Cost notes that almost everyone agrees that the Democrats have essentially no chance of taking control of the Senate in 2006. On the other hand, a number of pundits have said that they think the Democrats will re-take the House. Cost points out that historically (i.e., since the direct election »
April 24, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff

Success as an orphan

The editors of National Review explain why the selection of a compromise prime minister in Iraq “is a major victory for that country’s fledgling political class, and for the Bush administration.” They also note that Purveyors of doom on Iraq now have some explaining to do: If the country is in the midst of a full-scale civil war fatal to our project there, how is it that elected representatives of »
April 24, 2006 — John Hinderaker

It Beats the Heck Out of Rocket Boom

Michelle Malkin has unveiled a new video site called Hot Air. The site includes what’s intended to be a daily newscast by Michelle, delivered in Flash. (A lot of work has obviously gone into the debut video. It will be interesting to see whether Michelle can keep that up on a daily basis!) There’s more to Hot Air than the daily newscast. The site will also feature “original video, photography, »
April 24, 2006 — Scott Johnson

No exit

John Fund’s OpinionJournal column today intimates that Yale may be on the verge of finding the perfect teacher for Taliban Man just as Taliban Man exits stage left: “Cole fire.” The daughter formerly known as Little Trunk weighed in on the subject last week in a New York Sun column she coauthored with Mitch Webber: “Yale’s next tenured radical?” »
April 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker

“Newspapers Are Dying”

That’s the first line of Hugh Hewitt’s column today. The news business, though, is going to be just fine: The mainstream media – MSM – are populated overwhelmingly by left- and hard-left-leaning writers and editors, and few people even bother to argue the point anymore. American newspapers are not unlike American car companies: Market dominance made them lazy and uninterested in their customer base, and a lot of that base »
April 23, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff

Ehud Olmert and the courage of the New York Times’ convictions

In another example of the power of wishful thinking, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert concludes from editorials in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the British Guardian “condemning” Hamas that the world recognizes the absence of a peace partner for Israel and thus that Israel has no choice but to draw its own borders on the West Bank. But talk is cheap at the New York Times, Washington »
April 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker

Tennessee Welcomes Its Soldiers Home

Glenn Reynolds linked to this excellent story in his home-town newspaper about the return of the Tennessee National Guard’s 278th Regimental Combat Team from duty in Iraq: Up to 20,000 people turned out Saturday for a parade to welcome home the National Guard’s 278th Regimental Combat Team, providing a big-city atmosphere powered by small-town values. The rains that had been pelting the region ceased and the clouds gave way to »
April 23, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff

Still feckless after all these years

“Been there, done that” is the title of a piece about Iran by Zbigniew Brzezinski. The title is intended to evoke a comparison between the current debate over whether to attack Iran and the debate of a few years ago about Iraq. Brzezinski apparently is unable to distinguish between an invastion followed by an occupation and bombing strikes. Similarly, he can’t detect the difference between a regime that indisputably had »
April 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker

The AP Reports Some of the News

This headline caught my eye when I saw it on Power Line News: “Some 80,000 demonstrate in Belgium over killing of a youth during MP3 robbery.” This was a story I hadn’t heard about, so I followed the link to this Associated Press story: Some 80,000 demonstrators walked silently through the Belgian capital Sunday to protest the killing of a teenager who refused to give his digital music player to »
April 23, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff

Now he tells us

This attack on the Bush administration by Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Powell’s chief of staff, is so shrill that but for the absence of obscenity (though not name-calling), it could have been written by any Daily Kos diarist. Wilkerson claims that beginning on the day of his inauguration, President Bush set this nation on a path to “cease being good” (this is a riff on »
April 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker

The Latest from Durham

Blog of the Week Betsy’s Page has a rundown on the Duke lacrosse case, including observations on the conduct of the district attorney and the journalists covering the case–which is troubling, in my opinion, in both instances. »
April 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker

An Empire In Decline

Don’t miss Thomas Lifson’s incisive analysis of economic decline at the New York Times. The TImes, under the far-left leadership of “Pinch” Sulzberger, has not only gone off the deep end politically, but has also made a series of bad business decisions that have caused the company’s stock to plummet. Lifson writes: The American Thinker has been warning shareholders in the New York Times Company for at least two years »
April 23, 2006 — Scott Johnson

In good company

Tom Lipscomb writes this morning advising me that my post “The Pulitzer Prize for treason” is the subject of a critical Los Angeles Times column by Tim Rutten. Rutten also discusses my Standard column “Exposure.” Rutten takes up Bill Bennett’s and my condemnation of the Pulitzer Prize awarded to New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Licbtblau. (Bennett’s includes the award to the Washington Post’s Dana Priest in his »