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Blind diversity equals death

Political correctness is a toxic infection

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on Tuesday, was "incomprehensible." The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated, may be "too hard to comprehend." If the Bush administration suffered a systemic failure of imagination on homeland security, the Obama administration is suffering a willful failure of comprehension.

Holy war against conservative speech

How liberal churches are trying to shut you up

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige.

Involuntary 'volunteerism'

Disservice Hollywood won't ballyhoo

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009

Hollywood hearts President Obama. Mr. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you were not able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, of course.) Creeped out? You should be.

Whining and maligning

Who's behind the White House war on Fox News?

Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

White House interim communications director Anita Dunn assumed the role of lead Fox News Channel-basher this weekend. The attack was a dud. The left-leaning Nation magazine ridiculed President Obama's press shop for turning him into the "whiner-in-chief." AOL media columnist Jeff Bercovici called the war on Fox a "loser's strategy" that "signals weakness." And that's the friendly fire.

Spin doctors for Obamacare

Patching up support for government takeover

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

Lights, camera, agitprop! The curtains opened on yet another artfully staged performance of Obamacare Theater this week. One hundred and fifty doctors took their places on the plush lawn outside the West Wing - many acting like "Twilight" groupies with cameras instead of credible medical professionals. The president approved the scenery: "I am thrilled to have all of you here today, and you look very spiffy in your coats."

All the president's Olympic cronies

Chicago bid was based on perks and paybacks

Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009

When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world. (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the "Host City Curse.") So, why did President Obama and his White House entourage head to Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to push the unsuccessful, fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political payback.

Way off track

Homeland security with a Sept. 10 attitude

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009

Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has done us all a favor. But is it enough to rouse a nation in permanent snooze-button mode?

ACORN watch

More proof that the press is a pressure group

Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009

Undercover journalism is only acceptable when it fits a liberal agenda. That is the message from "professional" reporters and left-wing activists outraged about three successful video stings targeting President Obama's old friends at the left-wing, tax-subsidized outfit ACORN.

The cheat on K Street

Daschle struggles to rescue health care reform

Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009

Tom Daschle is the human toe fungus of Washington -- a persistent infection that may disappear from time to time, but always comes back with a vengeance.