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Over the past few days, Dave Weigel has been following up on a report from Max Blumenthal that Andrew Breitbart-funded conservative activist James O’Keefe attended a 2006 “race and conservatism” debate that featured white supremacist Jared Taylor. Weigel writes that one of the event organizers Marcus Epstein (who has his own controversial history with race) […]

Joe Klein frets over Umar Abdulmutallab being read his Miranda rights: In the Washington Post today, former CIA director Mike Hayden has a column lamenting the fact that the Undiebomber was read his Miranda rights after only 50 minutes of negotiation. He is absolutely right: the bomber is an enemy combatant. He doesn’t have Miranda […]

Paul Krugman, originally a Hillary Clinton supporter in the Democratic Primaries, looks at liberal disillusionment with Obama and concludes: There was a lot of delusion among progressives who convinced themselves, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, that Obama was a strong champion of their values. He wasn’t and isn’t. I think what’s […]

From a POLITICO story on an RNC fundraising scheme in which the party sends out documentation that pretends to be from the U.S. Census: “Of course, duping people is the point. … That’s one of the reasons why it works so well,” said one Republican operative familiar with the program, who said it’s among the […]

One of the things that generally irritates me about most right wing blogs is the conservative sense of victimhood. Conservatives imagine themselves a people under siege, cornered by a hostile oppressive culture that wants to destroy them. This has the effect of making the blogger believe they are some sort of warrior, a martyr for […]

Hans von Spakovsky, a former counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and Bush-era official at the heart of the politicized hiring scandal at the Department of Justice, has taken to the pages of National Review to excoriate the Justice Department for the transfer of former Voting Rights Section head Christopher Coates to […]

I’m going to take a shot at explaining it: Harry Reid should resign for proving that Democrats hate black people, which is why they picked Barack Obama who hates white people. That’s why Obama’s tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 is welfare and his health-care plan is reparations. That’s also why he doesn’t […]

Yesterday, in President Obama‘s remarks about the failed underwear bomber Umar Abdulmutallab, he defended the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison by saying that “was an explicit rationale for the formation of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” the branch of AQ that Abdulmutallab is reportedly connected to. Eli Lake and Michael Goldfarb questioned whether this was […]

Al Sharpton hammers the Washington Wizards’ Gilbert Arenas, who was caught with guns in his locker at the Verizon Center: “The NBA needs to stand up and send a strong message by dealing with this situation,” Sharpton told the Daily News. He also chided black leadership groups for not speaking out about the “culture of […]

There are a lot of way in which I think the government unjustly infringes on people’s rights. I don’t like the idea of unrestricted warrantless government surveillance. I don’t like the idea that you can lock someone up indefinitely without charge. I don’t think the government should ever, under any circumstances, be allowed to torture […]