Natasha Berger

In a Townhall.com piece titled, “The abortion empire strikes back,” Michelle Malkin rails against N.Y. state attorney general Eliot Spitzer’s investigation of “crisis pregnancy centers” — right-wing, often religiously funded organizations that attempt to persuade (read: frighten) pregnant women to carry their fetuses to term. Central to Malkin’s thesis is the unholy alliance of government […]

The attorney general of Texas has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the overturned death penalty conviction of a man whose lawyer slept through his trial. The 5th circuit appeals court ruled that the “consistent unconsciousness” ofhis attorney had compromised the defendant’s rights to due process. But the state of Texas is not about […]

John Derbyshire’s entire piece in this week’s National Review Online could be a Hall of Shame. But in the interest of space (and copyright laws) we’ll limit ourselves to a few choice morsels: Now, it is a common stereotype that the world of ballet, and of balletomanes, is heavily homosexual . . . If those […]

According to The New York Times, the Department of Justice has denied FBI investigators access to gun ownership records of the 1,200 people detained in connection with the September 11 attacks. Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker clarified: [The] request was rejected after several senior officials decidedthat the law creating the background check system did not […]

“It’s now nearly a million a year, five times the traditional numbers, mostly people from non-Western countries who don’t share our respect for the rule of law and don’t learn how to speak English.” — Phyllis Schlafly on the perils of legal immigration, November 14, 2001 See “Finding terrorists inside the U.S.” on Townhall.com.

In “No more jury trials for terrorists,” Townhall.com columnist Michelle Malkin argues for secret military trials to bring terrorism suspects to justice; here is what she had to say about those who favor due process: This is the kind of “justice” the American apologists for terrorism seek. They believe all will be right with the […]

“Is the culture war over or what?” asks a beaming Andrew Sullivan in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, before taking readers on a tour of our “post-Lewinsky,” Will & Grace age. This almost-anything-goes climate, the former New Republic editor argues, has made finger-wagging ideologues — and their decades-long war for America’s soul — laughably […]

“Here’s a happy consequence of the war: More Americans are exercising theirSecond Amendment rights and arming themselves.” — The Wall Street Journal‘s James Taranto, November 6, 2001 See The Journal‘s compilation page, Best of the Web .

In “No more jury trials for terrorists,” Townhall.com columnist Michelle Malkin argues for secret military trials to bring terrorism suspects to justice; here is what she had to say about those who favor due process: This is the kind of “justice” the American apologists for terrorism seek. They believe all will be right with the […]