Part Four of a six-part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block-walkers and pro...

In today's Washington Post, Colum Lynch reports on UN General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann and the US government response to him. Lynch explains that D'Escoto Brockmann was in Tehran yesterday and stated that, among other things, the US was not cooperating with other nations in the U...

The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing the appointment of Chas. Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. The next time anyone qvells about how moderate a Republican Olympia Snowe is just remember that it was p...

Hero in Underpants Tackles 'Roo It's not news that kangaroos are feisty and often nasty little mofos just rarin' for a fist fight. But this story from Down Under is the stuff of nightmares. One fine night while Beat Ettlin and his wife Verity Beman and children were hanging out in their respective b...

Harvey's Son Delivers Eulogy at Service Washington Post, United StatesCHICAGO -- Paul Harvey's son used his father's words for the eulogy at a public funeral service for the radio legend in Chicago, the city from which he launched his national news and commentary show. "A great tree has fallen,...

There is an excellent Geert Wilders interview with Jeff Jacoby on Boston.com today here. Unlike the dhimmi media tools who do Islam's bidding on a daily basis, Jacoby gives Wilders the opportunity to explain and/or refute the popular memes the media and the Islamic propagandists throw at Wilders...

  This is part one of a three part post title “ Clowns to the left of me ,  Jokers to the right ,  stuck in the middle with you  (America)”. Today we have a delicious story of irony regarding the GOP infighting and how it is reshaping the conservative movement. David Frum, who led th...

The most important news story of the day concerns another terrorist bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, the third in a series of such incidents. In this case no one was seriously injured — except for the terrorist, who ended up with a toe tag for his trouble. A security camera recorded the entire event...

In a January promotion for his then-upcoming Fox News program, Glenn Beck denounced those who accuse Democrats of leading America toward communism: "I'm tired of the politics of left and right. It's about right and wrong. We argue back and forth -- 'If you haven't voted for the donkey, you're just a...

Rush Limbaugh claimed during his February 27 morning radio update that "[t]he Obama budget ... funds the relentless drive toward socialized medicine" -- a statement that is neither accurate nor original. In fact, as the Urban Institute wrote in an April 2008 analysis, "socialized medicine involves g...