Here’s a new item to add to the growing list of fake facts dominating the news over the past year. Already on the list are death panels, a foreign-born president, the hoax of global warming, and rampant discrimination against white people. Now we can add a new fake fact: President Obama is a Muslim.... Read more»
For all the anger, political strategizing and stabs in the heart that the plans to build a Muslim community center near ground zero may have brought about, land-use and zoning experts say opponents of the project have very little legal basis on which to rest their argument.... Read more»
The last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq early Thursday. This orderly drawdown is one bright spot in a difficult region, yet the departure of the 4th Stryker Brigade is not a decisive “mission accomplished” moment in Iraq.... Read more»
Much of the media world is understandably agog at the size of the million-dollar donation Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation gave to the Republican Governors Association. The News Corp empire is vast and wide, and it deliberately slants the news while shamelessly promoting blatant disinformation in platform after platform all over the world.... Read more»
The controversy over a mosque close to the World Trade Center site can do irreparable harm to United States foreign policy and its struggle against Islamic extremism. It gives strength to Osama bin Laden’s contention that the West is at war with Islam, and that it is the duty of every Muslim to resist.... Read more»
Proposals to abolish the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision have ricocheted through the political noise machine. What would the removal of birthright citizenship mean for the country? Pierce the fog of rhetoric and you’ll quickly discover that nobody really knows.... Read more»
Tough talk on teacher accountability is all the rage this summer. Trouble is, we don’t know how to handle the perverse incentives that arise the moment we place undue weight on easily manipulated exams. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of education leaders from weighing in on the need to hold teachers’ feet to the fire.... Read more»
Smart v. Stupid: Conservative politics over the past two years has a common thread that looks an awful lot like an attempt to maintain white supremacy. But it’s a tragic mistake to try to defend the dominance of white-centric culture.... Read more»1
Wednesday’s court decision that gay couples love just as intensely, care for their children just as deeply, and are entitled to the very same dignity as straight spouses may be the judiciary’s single most important blow against inequality since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.... Read more»
Opinion: The notion that the nastiness and dishonesty that is coming from the left is comparable to that coming from Breitbart, Limbaugh, Beck, and the entire cast of characters at Fox News and on conservative talk radio would be laughable were it not mindlessly repeated... Read more»
As United States foreign policy makers wrestle about Afghanistan, three temptations must be forcefully resisted: re-asserting the U.S. commitment to winning the insurgency war against the Taliban; weakening the U.S. plan to begin withdrawing forces; and blocking local and regional efforts to negotiate a resolution.... Read more»
The release of more than 75,000 classified documents by WikiLeaks this week makes the old arrangement between reporters and sources regarding government secrets seem as quaint as vinyl records and typewriters.... Read more»
Classified documents leaked in a time of war. The comparisons abound, but what did the Pentagon Papers say about Vietnam, and what do the War Logs tell us now? We asked Neil Sheehan, who reported the Pentagon Papers story for the New York Times.... Read more»
Smart v. Stupid: Bloggers seldom have the benefit of an editor, but one has to wonder if it would have made any difference to Andrew Breitbart, the man who published the salacious snip of a speech by USDA employee Shirley Sherrod, then labeled her a racist. The next day, we all found out that she was exactly the opposite of what he’d claimed.... Read more»4
Three weeks ago British Prime Minister Cameron made clear he wanted all British troops home by 2015. At the start of this week Britain’s defense secretary said 2014. Following his meeting Tuesday with President Obama, 2011 is the new target date to begin withdrawal.... Read more»
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