Tag: McCarthy
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A Trifecta of Persuasive Punditry
I call myself a blogger, but I’m more like an essayist who uses blogging software. I’m concerned that someone will mock me, and have the facts on their side. So I research and try to substantiate every nuance, and the word count grows.
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Obama: “Our Nation is at War Against a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred”
Perhaps all of the criticism from Dick Cheney and others about a law-enforcement approach to terrorism has had a positive effect. In his weekly address today, President Obama reprises one of the better lines from his Inaugural Address: It’s been nearly a year since I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and took […]
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Senator Graham vs. Senator Clueless, on Trials for Jihadists
Senator Leahy, don’t you think there are a few questions we might want to ask a captured bin Laden? Such as: "Dude, where you been hanging out all these years?" Or: "Any of your peeps have any plans we might wanna know about?"
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Politics Outweighs Principle in Ordering a Civilian Trial for KSM
It certainly can’t be understood as a principled decision. The administration intends to continue on the path of holding military commissions for other captured jihadists. I know of no way to articulate a principled reason for bringing some but not all terrorists into the criminal justice system.
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87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo Pledge
This week brings further reminders of why breaking that pledge will be the better part of valor. Many of the Gitmo detainees are Very Bad People, and there’s no good option for relocating them.
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A Religion of Peace? Only With Careful Editing
I’m a fan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — an organization I was predisposed to love as soon as I heard their name. Their weekly FDD Update newsletter provides an extremely comprehensive review of each week’s developments in the defining struggle of our age — the war against Islamic fascism. There’s a large […]
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Conservatives Should Support Obama When He Gets Something Right
Parts of the right-o-sphere are all aflutter, debating whether President Obama deserves any credit for the rescue of a maritime hero held by pirates. It’s a reminder that Obama Derangement Syndrome is no more appropriate than its more wide-spread predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. In The Corner, Jonah Goldberg piped up promptly and congratulated the President […]
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Oliphant’s Cartoon Is Not Just Despicable, It’s Dangerous
At Israel Insider, Barry Rubin does the best job I’ve seen of describing precisely why Pat Oliphant’s recent cartoon — featuring a goose-stepping, headless swordsman pushing a Jew-shark-on-a-unicycle — is so powerful, and so powerfully offensive. Hat tip: Andy McCarthy. Is the cartoon truly anti-Semitic, or is it “merely” anti-Israel? I say both, but whatever. […]
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Britain Bows to Terrorism by Banning Geert Wilders
Basmallah, 3 1/2, shares what she has been taught about Jews,in the short film Fitna Last week, Great Britain shamefully denied entry to Geert Wilders, an elected member of the Dutch parliament, who had been invited to a screening of his film Fitna in front of the British House of Lords. It reportedly was the […]