Neoconned

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I'll be talking with J. Forrest Sharpe of IHS Press about the soon to be released two book set, Neoconned, which includes essays by Justin Raimondo, Pat Buchanan, Samuel Francis, Joe Sobran, Charley Reese, Thomas Fleming, Eric S....

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‘Homophobia’ and Gannon-gate

Gee, I feel kind of bad about how mean I was to good ol' Billmon: his gracious, funny, and thoughtful response is here. I have to say that it was the timing as much as the tone of Billmon's original post that put me off. After having to read the ceaseless barrage of...

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Lies of David Horowitz (Part XXVI)

Does David Horowitz, the ex-Black Panther supporter turned neocon, get up in the morning and immediately start making a list of the lies he's going to tell that day? Sure seems like it. Just this week, his website published a piece by Steven Plaut that falsely...

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Empress Laura

A bizarre headline: Laura Bush pledges more U.S. aid for Afghanistan Since when does the First Lady have the prerogative of dispensing U.S. tax dollars to anyone? Well, she seems to think that her royalist gesture is just routine: "After flying from Washington to the...

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“To Put Him Out of His Misery”

It's a good thing the natural right to live doesn't apply to people who live across water from here, or the Schaivo Right might have to start opposing war. According to MSNBC: "WIESBADEN, Germany - A U.S. Army tank company commander told a military court Wednesday...

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I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

Omigod! Are you ready for this shocking announcement from Steven Plaut trumpeted in his latest screed on David Horowitz's Frontpage? Okay, here goes: "We counted 14,400 web pages in which the names Juan Cole and Justin Raimondo appear together." [emphasis in original]...

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An Apology to My Readers

In the process of writing the blog entry below -- mocking the stupidly false stories about me and others spouted by the denizens of David Horowitz's Frontpage -- I realized something that is really beginning to bother me: I'm guilty of exactly the same thing. My...

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