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He was one of the leaders responsible for the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, among other horrors. |
From Kennedy to Katrina, the prefab media template that accompanied the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords was far from the first time the MSM bent the facts like a pretzel to build a narrative around an emotionally-charged event.
Why has the New York Times gotten so obsessed with Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, a retired CIA Operations Officer? Michael Ledeen dusts off his battered Ouija board and contacts the late head of CIA counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton, for answers.
Climate change? Osama bin Laden? The housing crisis? (Also read "SOTU reax" and "One way to save money: abolish the SOTU" at the Tatler.)
I'm not watching tonight. I'm not quite ready for the 2012 campaign kickoff. (Also read State of the Union coverage by Amy Holmes and Richard Pollock, among others, at the Tatler.)
The Vermont senator used the Tucson shooting to fill his reelection campaign coffers. But campaign finance data challenges his veracity.
His tacky little adolescent temper tantrums, euphemistically called Countdown, may be reincarnated somewhere else.
If you don't have the facts, invent them and/or pound the table. Dreier does both.
Isn't the MSM supposed to be out to help the “underdog”?
Who is the one inciting violence? (Also read Charlie Martin at the Tatler: "More Ring Lardnerism")
Did the 2010 midterms turn "blue" states "red" in time for the 2012 presidential election?
Robert Creamer's latest in the Huffington Post displays the same level of ignorance that certain congressmen and advocates have assaulted law-abiding Americans with for decades.
The trial of Austrian anti-Sharia activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff for “denigrating” Islam has major implications for free speech in Europe. (Also read Michael Ledeen: "Islamophobia")
The good news? Gridlock, courtesy of a GOP Senate in 2012. The bad news: Well, legacy journalists are busy writing their "Comeback kid" articles even as we speak, and are prepared to go all-in once again next year.
For nearly ten years, I have been arguing that China may well be the first example of a mature fascism in power. The highest praise imaginable has been bestowed on this theory, by the People’s Republic itself.
Palin is scary to the left not so much for 2012, but because she could be around for a long time to come.
Our relationship is based on the notion that China is always right, the U.S. is always wrong, and important problems should be ignored.
The White House needs to send out a disinvite. They are feeding Hu's arrogance and making him more difficult to deal with in the future.
Gov. Perry touches base with GOP leaders and sends Washington a message about state sovereignty.
Will Obama 2.0 work? Perhaps, especially if conservatives ornate the Clinton ’96 analogy with their own Bob Dole in 2012.
This is a fitting moment for Riyadh to thank Israel for the Stuxnet computer worm that crippled some of Iran's uranium enrichment centrifuges. (Also read: "'Stuxnet': NYT confirms Simon's 'Siemens Connection'")
My wife Shelly and I swooned when we visited the country some years ago before it exploded.
Even the New York Times sees in the departure of the Tunisian president the startling idea that Arabs will not necessarily tolerate tyranny forever.
Repealing ObamaCare will be a larger undertaking than most realize, and it would help if the GOP had an alternative ready to replace it.
Over at PJM's new Tatler blog, Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins the fray, blogging the beginning of the Lone Star State's 82nd legislative session. Gov. Perry will appear in the Tatler once in a while to update us on news and issues of importance to the state and the nation.
At the Tatler: Video and transcript of an emotional moment destroyed by political venom.
Under Putinocracy, there is not even a disguised attempt to spray a semblance of perfume at the obvious stench of state cruelty.
In a very real way the media were the secret sharers of the radical left of the 1960s, and their nostalgia for that era dies hard.
Obama has temporarily jettisoned his liberal agenda for seemingly no agenda.
Still though, I can't be the only one who, when constantly accused of fetishizing the Constitution, pictures a very old piece of parchment decked out in a black leather merry widow and stiletto-heeled boots, right?
The Russian opposition journalist — whom Obama has personally met — did not receive a word of support after his recent jailing for speaking against Putin.
I have no sympathy for what Loughner did. Nonetheless, as someone with a mild form of mental illness, I can speak from personal experience about how badly America deals with its mentally ill.
Do mere words have the power to ignite acts such as Saturday's shooting?
Making language or symbols that are perceived as "threatening" against the law is a bad idea.
It is long past time for our media figures to pay attention to the "hate speech" prosecutions of our brethren in Denmark.
The left-wing jabs at the Palin piñata in the wake of a horrible tragedy ought to be enough to convince more Americans of the moral vacuity of the “progressive” community.
A question for the metaphysicians and cultural pathologists: just how low can former-economist Paul Krugman, hysteric-in-chief for the New York Times, go?
A horrific shooting incident on Saturday has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) critically wounded, Federal Judge John M. Roll and five others dead, and 11 others wounded. For Pajamas Media's coverage of the incident, don't miss:
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Having lost legitimacy in the eyes of their own people, Iran's leaders lash out at real and imagined enemies.
She can raise a ton of money and has national name recognition, but has no legislative record and carries a reputation as a bomb thrower.
The movie and music industries are both rapidly aging mediums with record low sales in 2010. Aging stars and contempt towards their audiences aren't helping their woes.
Senator DeMint wants to play the game with a slight variation: load five chambers with bullets while leaving only one empty, and pull the trigger.
Americans oppose ObamaCare by huge margins.
Without quite realizing it, Western liberals have turned out the lights; they should rightly fear what lurks in the shadow.
The Republicans should welcome the fight. UPDATE: Link to the Democrats' talking points added.
President Obama promised his administration would have an “unprecedented level of openness.” Perhaps the readers of PJM and the viewers of PJTV can lend a hand.
If my uncertainties about looming healthcare, Internet and environmental regulations are in any way typical, then a lot of working Americans are living with a staggering degree of uncertainty right now.
An outstanding new volume explains the sources of its success.
A strategy to advance freedom by keeping President Obama and his radical appointees on the defensive.
Who is really to blame for wrecking Greece, ruining California, subverting the climate change movement, and discrediting mega-deficit spending? (Update: Don't miss Ed Driscoll and Richard Fernandez, for their takes on VDH's latest post.)
It's all in the math — and the numbers aren't looking good for the GOP.
High gas prices don't bother our president.
PJM Political sadly concludes its run, with a look back at the man of the year of 2010, and highlights from the show's guests over the past three years.
Amazing predictions of major events that will almost certainly, probably, mostly occur in 2011 unless nothing happens.
Pace the unintentionally ironic USA Today headline quoted above, it is impossible to understand the politics of the Left without grasping that it is all about deniable intimidation.
Why are big-name American retailers putting money into the hands of the Iranian mullahs?
There is probably no one more qualified for the White House than Sarah Palin. But is she electable?
I can remember when 66 seemed almost venerable. It seems absurdly young now for the editor of the renowned Arts & Letters Daily website to have passed away this week.
Zero tolerance common sense. UPDATE: School responds, I Google.
I believe that the president was born in Hawaii. But am I the only curious cat who thinks it's rather odd for that state's newly-elected governor, plus Chris Matthews of MSNBC, both liberal Democrats, to have just forced the "Birther" issue to rise again?
Why their comments on Michael Vick and school lunches make us queasy.
How did villains become heroes, global warming become "climate change," and the most liberal senator become a "bipartisan" president?
An ex-Soviet immigrant goes Socratic on his liberal American critics.
A special Christmas-themed edition of PJTV's Poliwood, featuring Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd. Plus the return of the prodigal blogger, Bill Whittle, to the virtual set of Trifecta. And Joe Hicks on the Pigford Settlement. Hosted by the VodkaPundit himself, Stephen Green.
Special undercover interviews of a Nazi officer, one of Himmler's inner circle, who was at the trigger point of the Holocaust in 1941. This exclusive video is from the PJ Institute, the education and research arm of Pajamas Media and PJTV.
Domestic political considerations far outweighed any scientific basis for the Copenhagen Accord.
Trying to get to the bottom of this week's events, with the aid of a Ouija board.
Is the reason liberals obsess about Sarah Palin their need to be dominated in a psycho-sexual way?
Congratulations to Jennifer Rubin, formerly of PJM, PJTV, Commentary and the Weekly Standard, now the WaPo's newest blogger.
Pajamas Media makes it to five years old ... with mistakes and some successes too.
England's Green Police takes capital punishment for heretical thinking seriously.
Or even Nixonologist-style: a modern-day equivalent of Woodward and Bernstein would have lots of fun tying together all of the strange stories that have circulated recently from the former home of Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham.
Radical Chic: The Next Generation. (Also see PJTV: J. Christian Adams: NAACP Lobbied Obama Administration to Dismiss New Black Panther Case.)
We in the oddball club live two lives, as sort of wandering souls who censor our speech and thoughts hourly.
As is often the case when government inserts itself where it has no business, the best of intentions can yield disastrous results. For L.A., this means more people will be murdered this year than last.
An anti-harassment bill being introduced in Congress threatens to stifle freedom of expression even more on college campuses.
Yet President Obama offered no serious proposals for reducing spending or debt.
The SOTU address gave me visions of 100,000 new (and unionized) engineering and science teachers criss-crossing rural America in windmill-powered, solar-paneled high-speed trains — questing after the three doctors who will still be in private practice once ObamaCare really takes hold. (Also read Michael Ledeen at the Tatler: "The State of Confusion")
Think Jared Loughner was evil? Meet Kermit Gosnell.
Whenever jihadist groups threaten free speech in America or Europe, you can bet an associate of Revolution Muslim is somehow involved.
President Obama makes his second State of the Union speech tonight. The Vodkapundit is ready — martinis in hand. (And for wall to wall live video coverage, check out PJTV, which is carrying both the SOTU and GOP responses live, as well as plenty of commentary, beginning at 5:00 PM Pacific/8:00 PM Eastern.)
If you commit violence, at least tell everyone you were inspired by a Dave Barry column and not me.
He's playing both ends against the middle. Nuts? Don't bet on it.
Does Obama have 2012 in the bag? Not so fast; it's still the economy, stupid.
Lots of virtual ink has spilled over GOProud attending CPAC. But then there's Suhail Khan, self-appointed GOP Muslim ambassador to the conservative world. Remember the story of the wolf in sheep’s clothing? Keep it in mind as you ponder Mr. Khan.
People simply have to congregate somewhere in airports, whether at the terminal or the curb. We have to prevent bombings with better intelligence. (Also read Roger L. Simon on the Moscow bombing.)
How the MOA is using a front group that performs outreach to Christians in order to obscure its radical, anti-Semitic activities.
"Prolife, Kermit Gosnell isn't ours. He's yours. Bravo," one leftwing blogger tweeted last week, in an echo of the left's attempt to redirect the blame for the Tuscon gunman earlier this month.
When a bureaucrat calls for accountability, it means he has found a way to game the system.
The Saudis gave Obama, his family, and members of his administration more than $300,000 worth of presents in 2009.
Is it possible that the left is in the grip of a Satanic possession? (Also read J. Christian Adams at the Tatler: "Foul becomes fair.")
ESPN is the new Democratic Party, and female privilege is the new equality.
Watching the Guardian try to wish universal human rights into the cornfield, I realized that this was the modern left finally taking its last inevitable step into the abyss of moral oblivion.
What could possibly be the motive behind this lunacy?
New National Front leader Marine Le Pen is riding high in the polls. And the French Socialists are concerned.
No kidding. The big surprise is that this is news to anybody.
Let's not forget Taiwan, Japan, and other U.S. friends in the region.
From highly toxic CFL bulbs to high speed rail unsuited to the geography of America, today's utopian socialist schemes are working out almost as well as the first go-around, when Bauhaus tried to establish a foothold in your house.
Islamists have made no secret of their desire to impose sharia law on the country.
Once again, we hear the old refrain that making it harder for law abiding citizens to purchase guns will make us safer.
So much for civility: John B. Judis' wrongheaded screed against the GOP is illustrated with multiple elephants, rampaging through the capital Godzilla-style. (And don't miss Ed Driscoll on the new TNR article: "Sleepwalking Through History.")
Jeb Bush is wrong to tell the GOP to reach out to Hispanics or risk permanent defeat.
MEK is a jihadist, communist cult that has killed thousands. The Americans they are reaching out to — including Rudy Giuliani and Tom Ridge — must not be fooled.
This past Christmas, thanks to a photograph I received from out of the blue, I was able to turn to my wife and sons and say, “There’s my childhood.” And to tell myself: even though it was nearly a half-century ago, it was real. Update 1/20/11: Per the request of the readers, another photo referenced in the article has been added at end of the piece.
Himmler's assistant Bernhard Frank has been living in plain sight in Germany for decades, until Mark Gould got him to talk on camera, in a video now online at the PJ Institute. And yet for some in the American MSM, Gould himself is the story and not Frank.
CNN, once home to a spirited debate show called Crossfire, apologizes for using the word "crosshairs." Orwell wouldn't have been a bit surprised.
When someone goes way over the line, reaction will force retraction. But most of the time debate should be "uninhibited, robust and wide open."
With free speech under attack, our civilization's survival is at stake.
How the Supreme Court has a chance to restore sanity.
The following article on Muslim-Christian relations was solicited and then rejected by the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog. In our continuing interest in freedom of speech, Pajamas Media presents it here. (Also read Roger L. Simon at The Tatler: "The True Islamophobia at the WaPo")
Celebrities and the MSM are awesome! And occasionally fatal.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave. How long will Jobs be away from his company, and how will it do in his absence?
Why the Wikileaks document dump must now be considered a key American counterterrorism resource.
A state-sponsored Russian journalist asks a propaganda-tinged question of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs fumbles the answer.
The truth is something we can no longer expect from the leftist columnists at the New York Times.
A 67% increase in personal income taxes and a whopping increase in business tax rates were rammed through by a lame duck legislature in typical entertaining fashion.
The sheriff of Pima County is troubled by vitriol only when it comes from the mouths of conservatives.
I watched the U of A memorial service at a retreat center in Tucson, knowing I would most likely be the only one who hadn't voted for Obama, even if no one else knew that about me. (For a different take on the Tucson memorial service, read Ed Driscoll's "Wellstone Memorial Redux.")
According to the political class, the right response for conservatives is none at all.
While reading the budget requests for FY 2011, remember to be "civil."
Moderate feminists should open their eyes as to just how far women’s rights have slipped down the left’s traditional pecking order of causes.
Of course they politicized Tucson. That's what progressivism is.
HUD busts the liberal bastion (Barbara Boxer's former district!) for insufficient minority population. (Update: Also, read Howard Nemerov at the Tatler: Marin County Shows Its True Colors)
A father files an eye-opening report from the front lines.
Unlike the old ABC TV series, this isn't so much a superhero movie as a goofy Austin Powers-ish postmodern critique of same.
Reagan's policies created 10 times more jobs in the first 6 quarters after his recession ended than Obama's.
No matter how much liberals try to mystify the Constitution and obscure its meaning, hearing the actual text of the document quickly destroys that fiction.
Saul Anuzis wants to alter the way we elect presidents by supporting the Soros-financed National Popular Vote movement.
Lebanon's year-old unity government has collapsed, ushering in the country's worst political crisis since 2008. What happens next?
A handgun is the best defense against criminal evil.
The Basque terrorist group ETA promises to refrain from violence (while keeping its weapons) in exchange for negotiations.
We have other tools available besides taking hard stances on the debt limit and repealing Obamacare in the House.
The evidence shows that more regulations aren't the answer.
If you look carefully you can see a yellow Hezbollah flag flying next to a parked UN vehicle.
How many more tragedies like the Tucson shootings will we have to watch before we start facing the harsh truth?
The Indiana governor has a good shot at the nomination.
Real world crime statistics be damned, as sure as the sun comes up, the anti-gun lobby became among the first to run on autopilot and seek to politicize the senseless human killings in Tucson.
Nothing is harder in partisan politics than to oppose your own side when it is morally in the wrong. The New Republic's Martin Peretz has twice; pushing back against appeasement of the left, first towards the Soviet Union, and now Islamofascism.
The only lessons to be learned from the tragedy in Tucson are the age-old ones that life isn’t fair and sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Two longshots with the potential to roil the GOP primaries in 2012 are making noises about running.
When reports said that U.S. passport application forms will no longer list "mother" and "father," and will instead ask for details of "parent one" and "parent two," I thought it was a spoof, but it's very much real.
Big government is quietly co-opting domestic violence.
Gen. Jack D. Ripper's fluoride, Erin Brockovich's Chromium 6, and the anti-vaccine movement have all made the news this week.
The winds in Washington are blowing with the backlash from the holiday season.
Rather than the New York Times' outdated vision of "Progressivism," conservatives should become proponents of progress understood as the crafting of better laws to protect individual freedom.
Passing ObamaCare last year sets up epic Congressional battles this year. UPDATE: The House votes to repeal ObamaCare.
They told me that if I voted for John McCain, we'd be stuck with at least four years of Animal House-style White House hi-jinks. And they were right!
PJTV provided live, exclusive coverage of Ryan's remarks.
His speech assuming Speaker of the House gives us reason for encouragement.
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" is not just a touch typing exercise.
The Saudis just captured a vulture and fear the bird is spying for Israel. It's a reminder that the Israelis are hated in large part because the people who hate them are mad.
January 2000: New York Times sniffs, “Sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling," due to global warming. January 2011: Skiing down Park Ave. via an SUV and a towrope.
Nothing washes over anymore — we'll be watching every congressman's vote and holding them accountable. First: a lame duck wrap-up.
Beware the child-soldiers of the millennium who have your unhappiness heart.
John Roberts joins Fox. Will he come clean about tossing Rev. Wright down CNN's memory hole in 2008?
We know about barbarous cartels. But more terrifying is their cancerous spread through Mexican government, and societal decay caused by a state with no justice. There is no avoiding the problem: we need to know all of Mexico, now.
It's time for the Tea Party to make a determined assault on our institutional media.
Cathy Davidson, nominated for the National Council on the Humanities, is another in a long line of highly questionable Obama appointees.
The welfare state is coming face to face with the problem of how to fund its generous entitlement system with shrinking numbers of highly credentialed service workers who can't find jobs.
Our public education system is failing because government is under no obligation to serve you.
The federal government is standing athwart debilitating mind games and spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, courtesy of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).
A new video flashing back to the worst of the early 1970s doomsday documentaries reminds us once again that today's enviro-fear mongering is tomorrow's late-night camp TV.
Some helpful tips before the legacy media's next story goes unexpectedly so awry.
The intent of the Clean Air Act needs to be manipulated beyond logic to believe the EPA has any authority to regulate CO2.
If she runs in 2012, will Sarah Palin be the Rashomon candidate? Much like the original blank slate version of Obama, people certainly do project what they want to see on her.
Scenes from the Figaro Cafe, where folk singers reign and giant puppets walk the earth.
He claims that the New Black Panther case is a "made up controversy." Holder would be well-advised to retreat from this position. Too many stories, too many incidents are known by too many people.
Recall 2010 as the year progressives went after the Constitution, and the year that same Constitution gave us the chance to vote out the would-be tyrants.
Can Congress force you to eat certain foods? To buy health insurance? So much for the 1970s mantra of "My body, my choice."
Circling the wagons.
On the big stories of the year, it's all the facts they wish to print.
The media falls in love with catastrophic predictions, and is consistently 10-15 years behind(!) in reporting on what the global temperature is actually doing.
In this groundbreaking three-part interview, PJTV's Richard Pollock discusses Barack Obama's deep socialist ties with author Stanley Kurtz.
How the New York Times went off the rails, and what its myriad woes mean for the rest of the American news industry.
“Rev. Wright is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
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| PRIORITIES: Rep. Kucinich sues over olive pit in sandwich. “Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is suing a congressional cafeteria for dental damage he says he suffered after biting into an olive pit in a sandwich wrap he bought there.” |
| HMM: Border authorities arrest controversial Muslim cleric east of San Diego. “U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents. . . . Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.” |
| CAROLINE GLICK on blood libels. |
| A DETAILED LOOK AT Rand Paul’s plan to cut $500 billion. |
| AT AMAZON, markdowns on jewelry. Valentine’s Day isn’t far off. |
| IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING. |
| THE NEW YORK TIMES GOES TO (SPY) WAR. “So CIA has a big policy disagreement with him! From which an old-timer like me would draw the conclusion that CIA is behind the Times’ campaign. To the Times’ great shame.” As always, it’s never in doubt that they’re tools. The only question is whose. |
| WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): CBO: Social Security to begin running permanent deficits this year, not 2016. “This isn’t the only horrible news in the report by a longshot, either. CBO’s projected deficit for this year is a cool $1.5 trillion or 9.8 percent of GDP, which is just two-tenths of one percent less than last year’s all-time budget-buster. And there’s not much revenue relief coming from new jobs: CBO expects that unemployment will remain above eight percent through 2012 and won’t get back to a historic norm of 5-6 percent or so until 2016. This ship has already started to sink, in other words, and yet Captain Hope chose to use his annual megaphone last night to talk about stuff like high-speed rail.” |
| BLIZZARD IN DC: A good night for Al Gore to get a massage. |
| YOU CAN’T FOOL THOMAS FRIEDMAN: It’s Sputniks All The Way Down. |
| PRESIDENT BARACK GRANHOLM. “‘We need a moon shot,’ said Granholm in the Huffington Post. ‘This is our Sputnik moment,’ echoed the president on Tuesday. . . . Granholm envisioned a transformation of Michigan from Rust Belt to ‘Green Belt’ with massive, European-like, public investments in infrastructure and alternative energy. ‘In five years, you’ll be blown away,’ she predicted in what would become her signature line. Ironically, thousands of state jobs were blown away as Granholm’s vision diverted pols’ attention from much-needed reforms to the state’s budget and business climate. Since her speech in 2006, the state’s unemployment rate has exploded from 7.4 percent to 11.4.” America as Greater Michigan? Well, Michigan’s been okay for the pols and their cronies — though lately, even that’s not so true anymore. |
| TRACY QUAN: Don’t Cry For The Tiger Mom. |
| WASHINGTON POST: Rep. Paul Ryan 1, ObamaCare 0. “The most important thing said [by Foster] today: in so many words, moving toward defined contribution health care has more potential than price controls to bring about real efficiency gains and higher productivity in the health sector, and slow the pace of rising costs. That’s a very big deal.” |
