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The long, dirty career of Lois Lerner
George Will writes about this “public servant” and her history of using power to bully those who challenge Democrats. This problem can only be solved with radical surgery. Eliminate these…
McCarthyism
phenomenon in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Geo Will at his best!
The charlatans’ response to the Tucson tragedy …A characteristic of many contemporary minds is susceptibility to the superstition that all behavior can be traced to some diagnosable frame of mind…
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The big, bad, right-wing attack on our wonderful higher ed system
One of the most common of political tactics is to pin a derogatory label on your adversaries, smear their backers, and then declare victory. Zealots on both sides of the…
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If You Can’t Be Dumb, Choi Num
Local news still appears to be in a holding pattern. I read a couple articles about Al Sharpton’s humongous rally in Washington, DC. It appears there was a small gathering…
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Overpaid federal employees
Today’s WSJ has an excellent piece on “The Government Pay Bonus.” Government employees tend to be paid more than are comparable private sector workers, but that’s not the whole story.…
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Now maybe they’ll shut up
Rosenberg sons acknowledge dad was spy. And mom, too, by the way. And those Hollywood black-listed martyrs? Communists too.
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‘Academic McCarthyism’
Newsweek reviews this week a new book-length chronicle of the Duke lacrosse rape allegations. I particularly enjoyed the final paragraph, which describes why the case has been called a case…
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Revisionist history exemplified
It should come as no surprise that one of America’s greatest windbags — Martin Sheen — has influenced negatively the world view of son Emilio Estevez. Take this quote from…
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Climate McCarthyism
Lately I have been using the term climate McCarthyism to describe a particularly evil turn of events in the debate over global warming. There has been a concerted effort by…
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Who would play Nifong in Duke lacrosse movie?
If a movie were to be made of the Duke lacrosse case, who would play whom? Kurt Anderson in a New York Magazine article says Tom Hanks would play K.C.…
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An Inconvenient Scientist
This is a great article by Boston Globe clumnist Alex Beam on MIT climate scientist Richard Lindzen and how the enviros are using their McCarthyite tactics against him. As Beam…
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Common sense on l’affaire Abramoff
Bill Anderson and Candace Jackson provide common sense commentary on the Abramoff kerfuffle here. This brings to mind one of my favorite quotations. Back in the 50s, at the height…