Jennifer Rubin doesn’t like the fact that the liberal Zionist group J-Street rejected the Islamophobic demagoguery of those opposing the construction of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero: This is daft. We are going to annoy Osama bin Laden if we don’t let them have the mosque steps from where his followers incinerated 3,000 […]
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Fair And Balanced.
Howard Kurtz writes a nice, “fair and balanced” column on how ugly the public discourse is getting, using a set of on the one hand, on the other hand examples: In just the last few weeks, Salon Editor in Chief Joan Walsh and CNBC contributor Howard Dean have accused Fox News of racism; conservative crusader […]
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Felon Disenfranchisement Case Headed To SCOTUS.
Linda Greenhouse writes about an overlooked case heading for the Supreme Court, in which it will decide whether or not Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits any “voting qualification” that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race […]
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More On The Ethics Of Wikileaks.
These statements from Julian Assange defending his not redacting the names of Afghan informants, highlighted by Joshua Foust, are really confusing for me: • He claimed that many informers in Afghanistan were “acting in a criminal way” by sharing false information with Nato authorities. • He said the White House knew that informants’ names could […]
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McArdle On Affirmative Action.
Megan McArdle on Affirmative Action: This is not to make fun of liberals or conservatives who think that more poor kids ought to go to Harvard; that would indeed be nice. But the fact remains that very few kids are going to go to Harvard, no matter how you play around with their admissions formula. […]
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Why I’m Not Being Triumphant About The Crack Disparity Bill.
David Dayen on yesterday’s lowering of the crack/powder sentencing disparity from 100:1 to 18:1: But you know what we don’t do a lot of in this country? Reduce sentences. Check out the makeup of the world’s largest prison population and you’ll see what I mean. “Law ‘n’ Order” and “Tough on Crime” remain shibboleths used […]
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Newt Gingrich, Mainstreaming Islamophobia.
Newt Gingrich‘s latest screed in Townhall really has to be read to be believed. Cobbling together anecdotes and ideas from Islamophobic conservative writers like Andy McCarthy, Gingrich goes full on in arguing that it’s not enough to simply fight terrorists: Some radical Islamists use terrorism as a tactic to impose sharia but others use non-violent […]
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Working Hard To Cement That Wikileaks CW.
Sure the Pentagon says it’ll take a couple of weeks to sort through the thousands of pages of documents released by Wikileaks, but the Washington Post already knows what the outcome will be: This is one of those moments where the illusion of the media as an impartial player really becomes clear. How people react […]
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Tucker Carlson Surrenders.
Last year at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Tucker Carlson was booed for suggesting that conservative media outlets should be more like the New York Times–that their reporters “go out, and they get the facts.” The Daily Caller, as a project, was meant to be a substantive outlet for right-leaning, but authentic journalism. With […]
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More On Obama And Race.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Barack Obama and Shirley Sherrod: More disturbingly, this is what happens when you treat the arrest of a black man, in his home, as something that can be fixed over beers. This is what happens when you silently ascent to the notion that racism and its victims are somehow equally wrong. The […]
