March 12, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintained her perfect record of suck-up diplomacy with the Chinese tyranny when she emerged from her meeting with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi today to announce they’d agreed to let bygones be bygones on the little contretemps between an unarmed U.S. surveillanc...
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March 06, 2009
With le tout Washington caught up in the fight over Chas Freeman, Rush Limbaugh, the spending bill, the earmarks, and the teleprompter-addicted president, Eliot “Spanky-Spanky� Spitzer, disgraced former governor of New York, has slipped back into town. In partnership with his father, Bernard “...
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February 28, 2009
Have you recently discovered that your teenage son is an aspiring jihadi? That all those hours he was spending holed up in his room scouring the Internet he was not looking at porn sites, as you thought, but communing with other martyrs-in-waiting just like him? Not to worry, help may be only a few ...
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February 23, 2009
The New York Times sends an ambassador to visit a Potemkin synagogue in Esfahan and, surprise, he finds some Jews willing to say they are as appalled by Israel as he is. Does he stop to wonder whether it could be their dhimmitude speaking? Nah. That's not a language Times columnists are required to ...
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February 20, 2009
Many thanks to Eric Holder and his calumny against America as a "nation of cowards" for the maddening reminder of one of the reasons we yanked our children out of the D.C. public school system and fled to Virginia 15 years ago. Black History Month was a particular trial, during which the children we...
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February 19, 2009
So, the vice president (Mr. Cheney, not Mr. Logorrhea) waged and lost a just war with an increasingly irritated and ultimately implacable George Bush (and God-knows-how-many-other forces of pusillanimity who were whispering in the president's ear) over a pardon for Scooter Libby. It was a noble caus...
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