Andrew Sullivan, who continues to build on his journey away from moderate conservatism and into the welcoming arms of the extreme left, has added another key piece of that transformation — anti-Israel hostility.| MORE ›

Nearly two weeks after a close call on a Detroit bound flight, The President of the United States finally recognized something which had been obvious to most ordinary men and women in the street on December 25, 2009: The system failed. Dear Watson, that fact was elementary. Even if our President couldn’t see what the fuss was over, and why he should spoil his holiday with family in Hawaii, the public recognized the event for what it is:| MORE ›

Michaele and Tareq Salahi were not the only uninvited guests at the White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Newsmax reports.

At the last minute, someone from the Indian diplomatic delegation invited a man to attend the White House event on Nov. 24 without the knowledge or consent of the White House.| MORE ›

The Crucified Patriarch
By Robert Ellis

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, who is the spiritual head of 300 million Orthodox Christians round the world, created a stir recently with an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes”. According to the Patriarch Orthodox Christians are treated as second-class citizens in Turkey and sometimes he feels “crucified”.| MORE ›

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, three major conservative economic commentators argue that one reason that the recovery from last year’s recession is slow is because of fear among investors that Democrats’ policy initiatives will impose higher taxes and increased regulatory costs that will strangle any profits.| MORE ›

Matthew Yglesias, supposedly moderate progressive, has another in his long pattern of posts demonizing all people he disagrees with up today. While this is in and of itself not noteworthy from the notoriously scripted (and therefore prolific — it is easy to write a lot when you just regurgitate preset talking points) Yglesias, the title demands comment — “The Real Torture Debate“.| MORE ›

Senator Orrin Hatch has teamed up with two conservative legal commentators to summarize the battle plan for a Constitutional challenge to the health care plan which Democrats appear posed to cobble together out of differing House and Senate bills. The proposed challenges include one very good argument, and two much less promising avenues. (more…)

David Broder and David Brooks are probably members of this club.

Although I should’ve expected it, I’m afraid I have to admit that the mainstream media‘s passionate defense of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano took me by surprise.

I especially expected better from New York Times columnist David Brooks – as much of a centrist as they come – and Washington Post columnist David S. Broder. The former wrote yesterday:| MORE ›

In their zeal to impose a health care “reform” package built around demonization of insurance companies and the massive transfer of new enrollees onto various government programs, many of our lefty friends have been conspicuously silent whenever asked about how the expansion of these entitlements will be paid for. It is, however, not possible to extend their calculated “silent treatment” to the actual text of the bills. The current crop of proposals draw funding from two primary sources:| MORE ›