Why do they hate us?

Okay, so no one liked the Bush inaugural speech, with prominent conservatives like Peggy Noonan and Bill Buckley making plain their dismay at its militant wackiness. And no wonder, just look at the wackos who had a hand in it, according to the Los Angeles Times: "As...

Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush's inaugural speech: "If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn't mean it … [and] that it was merely an inspirational...

William F. Buckley, Jr. didn't like the inaugural address either. "Confusing," and apparently "an improvisation," it was also ungrammatical: "Mr. Bush said that 'whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny.' You can simmer in resentment, but not in...

Arthur Silber has the goods on W's "let's-conquer-the-world" speech, and also gives us a glimpse (but just a short one: we can't linger there too long) into the mind of David Horowitz, who has moved from being a left-wing "revolutionary" to being a "right-wing"...

NRO blogger Peter Robinson, who dared express doubts about the messianic megalomania of the Leader's inaugual address, has recanted: his post on the NRO blog is even entitled "I Recant," and, in typical Stalinist style, he did it in public: on Hugh Hewitt's radio...

David Frum is complaining about a sign posted prominently outside the entrance to the Department of State -- No Neocons Need Apply: "The story is going around Washington that Senate Foreign Relations chairman Richard Lugar handed Condoleezza Rice a list of names of...

Here's an update to that post about suspected Chinese terrorists who crossed the Mexican border and headed for Boston. There's nine more of them: "The four Chinese previously named by the FBI were identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin....

It's sickening to watch David Frum, Bob Shrum, Susan Molinari, and some news guy sitting around pontificating on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews: the unanimity is boring, and depressing. Frum is flustered when Matthews calls him "Frummie," but clearly he is a hawk...

Peter Robinson (see below) is not alone in his uneasiness with Bush the Conqueror's ultimatum to the world. Even Peggy Noonan, usually a Bush suck-up, caught a whiff of fanaticism: "The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and...