Matthew Duss

The news that Sam Brownback will drop out of the presidential campaign takes some of the punch out of my linking to this, The Jerusalem Summit, a group that advocates the transfer of Palestinians (“voluntarily”, of course, just like the 700,000 Palestinians who “voluntarily” transferred themselves from their homes in 1948) from Israel proper and […]

Yesterday, Jonah Goldberg defended his anti-abortion stance by explaining that his “uncertainty” about when life really begins has led him to err on the side of empowering the state to force women to bear children. Treating this opinion, which was stated in a political column in a major newspaper, as if it were an actual […]

And the award for “Most Transparently Ridiculous and Astonishingly Vulgar Attempt to Commandeer the Armenian Genocide Resolution Controversy for Their Own Pet Issue” goes to …National Review’s Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne D. Eisen: “Whatever may be said about the U.S. House of Representatives committee vote concerning the use of the term “genocide” in […]

How insane is Rudy Giuliani’s Middle East adviser Daniel Pipes? He considers the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, which has held for almost thirty years, to be a trick: “No significant peace process exists now, nor has it ever. Israel’s signing of a diplomatic agreements with Egypt (1979), Lebanon (1983), the PLO (1993), and Jordan (1994) all […]

Michelle Malkin responds to Ezra’s health care debate challenge by taking several thousand spittle-flecked words to essentially say that while she’d love to give Ezra the whupping he so richly deserves, she thinks she hears her mother calling her for dinner, and she has to run home right now. At the risk of creating a […]

Shorter Ann Coulter: “Inside every Jew, there is a Christian trying to get out.” –Matthew Duss

Eric Martin has a great post on the significance of the Sistani brokered accord between Muqtada al-Sadr and Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim: The Shiites are fearful that the Bush administration is tilting too heavily in favor of the Sunnis – in order to counter Iran, and to keep its own indigenous options open. In fact, there […]

Bret Stephens performs the favorite conservative trick of defending the use of torture by defining methods of torture which he favors as “not torture”: “For the record, count me as one who does not object to the interrogation to which KSM was reportedly subjected, including waterboarding. This is not because I take the use of […]

Apparently, according to my favorite fake Iran expert Michael Ledeen, it is now objectively Islamofascist to report events in Iran in a way which does not conform to Michael Ledeen’s preferred interpretation: “AL-AP STRIKES AGAIN!The headline on their story describing, in muted tones, the latest in a long series of demonstrations against the regime:Rare Iranian […]

Barack Obama decides to forgo flag pins: “Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he […]