Horowitz vs. John Paul II

Does David Horowitz, the Commie-turned-neocon, even read his own website? From the looks of two posts on their appropriately named "Moonbat Central" blog -- one by Richard Poe complaining about how "left-wing" French Catholics are attacking John Paul II, and the other...

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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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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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A Revolution Undone

Remember how the elections in Kyrgyzstan were supposed to have been "rigged"? That was the reason for the "Tulip Revolution," or the "Pink Revolution," or whatever is going on in one of the poorest and most isolated countries in the former Soviet Union. The...

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Put a sock in it, Plaut

I'm having such fun with those wacky craaaaazy zonked-out jokesters over at Frontpage -- the neoconservative equivalent of Ken Kesey's Prankster Bus -- that I can hardly stand it. First it's the screaming headline on Horowitz's blog this morning -- "Saddam Hussein...

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