Washington Post reporter David Brown found ”rage and panic” at a recent meeting of AIDS activists in Vienna, placed on page A-10 of Thursday’s paper: The rage is directed at the Obama administration , which many activists say is reneging on a commitment to continue big annual increases in global AIDS spending. The panic arises from the knowledge that in some African countries, patients who want antiretroviral treatment are being turned away and will soon start dying. Some activists pine for former president George…
In explaining his opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, Newt Gingrich today dramatically refocuses our understanding of the threat to the West posed by Islamism. It is not just about terrorism — that’s just a small part of the offensive. As he explains in Human Events , we are confronted by?a mainstream movement that seeks gradually to infuse sharia, Islam’s legal and political framework, into our legal, political, financial, economic, and educational systems — and throughout our culture. He says from the start: One of our biggest mistakes in the aftermath of 9/11 was naming our response to the attacks “the war on terror” instead of accurately identifying radical Islamists (and …
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On June 29, I shared an outraged e-mail from an L.A. government worker lambasting the SEIU for using worker dues to organize a pro-illegal immigration bus ride to protest Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. SB1070 goes into effect this week. Flashback: I am a member of SEIU because, as an employee of Los Angeles County I have to be, and today I received an …
Mike , I’d certainly agree that it is important to be skeptical about skepticism, lest it become a dogma in its own right. As to the rest of that First Things piece , however,?I couldn’t really see where it was going –?other, perhaps, than into a willfully?blind alley –?but?maybe I missed something.? ? On your second point,?I?find it difficult?to attribute the rise of twentieth-century totalitarianism (even in part) to the?notion that the minds of those who might have pushed back against it had been somehow exhausted by excessive skepticism. If you look at the leaders of those movements, they were typically true believers…
Good evening. Sure, it’s technically morning, but when I went to post tonight I realized I had nothing queued up to write about, so I had to make a crash run through my news feeds before I could get started. But get started we shall tonight with Apple and the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is apparently entrusted with setting rules for what forms of reverse engineering are allowed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a landmark bill which included (over)broad restrictions on software. In short, the DMCA pretty much bans reverse engineering or circumvention of…
The smarty pants set, breezily dismiss the contents of Journolist, the group made up of hundreds of mainstream journalists, bloggers, activists and Democrat policy wonks. The reasoning goes this way: how is it shocking that a bunch of like-minded people want to get together and chat? I mean, that’s just human. They’re young and liberal and brash, who cares? Except, in this case, these people are in positions of power in the mainstream media. Matt Lewis reports this : Regardless, the record shows Scherer had very harsh words for Fox — a point that would be less relevant had Scherer not recently won a seat on the board of…
New e-mail messages published by the Daily Caller Thursday show a coordinated effort by the JournoList’s members to destroy Sarah Palin the moment she was named John McCain’s running mate on August 29, 2008. Some even discussed how the former Alaska governor’s decision to have a Down Syndrome baby rather than abort it could be used against her. As the attacks ensued, the Nation’s Chris Hayes wrote, “Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get…
British prime minister David Cameron ,?speaking yesterday?at joint press conference with President Obama: BP is an important company to both the British and the American economies. Thousands of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic depend on it.?So it’s in the interest of both our countries, as we agreed, that it remains a strong and stable company for the future.?And that’s something we discussed today. Cost to BP of Gulf Coast victims’ compensation fund: $20 billion. Value to BP of the two leaders of the English-speaking world?making?clear to?global markets?that?the company?is too big to fail: priceless.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has responded to reports that an NPR producer wrote gleefully about his death in an e-mail message to the now infamous JournoList. As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, the Daily Caller’s Jonathan Strong published some more of the liberal group’s e-mail messages which included Sarah Spitz claiming that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment. With this in mind, both the Washington Examiner’s Byron York and myself asked Limbaugh for a response to this nonsense. First, …
M ort Zuckerman, a former Obama supporter, has again gone after the President’s economic policies as the primary source of the economic non-recovery. In a long opinion piece, Zuckerman spells out the exceptionalism of American business through our history and why it has been able to weather financial storms of the past and come out in much better shape than other countries. The ’storm’ metaphor is apt, …
