As National Review’s Byron York explains, when Limbaugh talked about “phony soldiers,” he was referring to phony soldiers–that is, to men like Jesse Macbeth, an “antiwar” activist who claimed to have served in Iraq, received a Purple Heart and killed innocent civilians, when in fact the Army discharged him before he even completed basic training.
If Democrats want to support the phony troops, it is their right to do so. But when they try to interfere with Limbaugh’s livelihood, that amounts to an effort at creating a McCarthy-style blacklist.
The Fox report says that 41 Democratic senators signed this letter, which means that 9 or 10 did not (depending on how you count Joe Lieberman). Will they speak out against their colleagues’ intimidation efforts? And where are the Republicans in all this? With the Democratic Party increasingly in thrall to hate groups like MoveOn and Media Matters, America urgently needs politicians of either party with the courage to take a stand for decency.
Join Hillary Clinton at this milestone policy speech addressing some of our Nation’s serious challenges–global warming, globalization, and the Bush Administration’s war on Science.
Join Hillary Clinton at this milestone policy speech addressing some of our Nation’s serious challenges–global warming, globalization, and the Bush Administration’s war on Science.
Join Hillary Clinton at this milestone policy speech addressing some of our Nation’s serious challenges–global warming, globalization, and the Bush Administration’s war on Science.
They told me that if George Bush was reelected, brave voices of critics would be silenced. And they were right:
For daring to raise a voice and raise some money for the troops (all proceeds from the sale of his items go to the National Military Family Association charity), this T-shirt seller earned the wrath of MoveOn.org’s lawyers. MoveOn.org chief operating officer Carrie Olson brought down the sledgehammer. She sent a cease-and-desist letter to CafePress demanding that PoliStew Cafe’s items and other anti-MoveOn.org merchandise be removed from the store.
Free speech for me, but not for thee–the motto of the left.
Does anyone think that this kind of thing is any different at any other government agency? CIA, FBI, TSA? Or even HUD, or NASA?
Or even large corporate bureaucracies? A good friend just got out from under an employer that was an old-boys network that promoted incompetents and punished good employees because management worked with filtered info.
One of the reasons we need smaller government–at least that way, rogue agencies wouldn’t be able to do as much damage.
What is it with these big-government types and “czars”? What country do they think they live in? Yes, the Bolshevik Revolution was a disaster for Russia, but that doesn’t mean that the Czar was the solution.
What is it with these big-government types and “czars”? What country do they think they live in? Yes, the Bolshevik Revolution was a disaster for Russia, but that doesn’t mean that the Czar was the solution.
What is it with these big-government types and “czars”? What country do they think they live in? Yes, the Bolshevik Revolution was a disaster for Russia, but that doesn’t mean that the Czar was the solution.
The great question in deciding whether to keep fighting in Iraq is not about the morality and self-interest of supporting a struggling democracy that is also one of the most important countries in the world. The question is whether the war is winnable and whether we can help the winning of it. The answer is made much easier by the fact that three and a half years after the start of the insurgency, most of the big questions in Iraq have been resolved. Moreover, they have been resolved in ways that are mostly towards the positive end of the range of outcomes imagined at the start of the project. The country is whole. It has embraced the ballot box. It has created a fair and popular constitution. It has avoided all-out civil war. It has not been taken over by Iran. It has put an end to Kurdish and marsh Arab genocide, and anti-Shia apartheid. It has rejected mass revenge against the Sunnis. As shown in the great national votes of 2005 and the noisy celebrations of the Iraq football team’s success in July, Iraq survived the Saddam Hussein era with a sense of national unity; even the Kurds