Salman Rushdie Says Amnesty International Suffers from “Moral Bankruptcy”
There are two updates related to Amnesty International’s relationship with former Gitmo detainee and jihadist Moazzam Begg this Sunday. (For background on the relationship, see here. For background information on Begg, seehere, here, here, here, here and here.)
First, the Sunday Times (UK) reports that Salman Rushdie has joined the growing chorus of observers who denounce Amnesty’s alliance with Begg (emphasis added):
Rushdie, whose plight was championed by [...]
Support for Health Care Reform Continues to Drop
The bump in support for the Democrats’ health care plans that resulted from President Obama’s speech to Congress and associated media blitz is now history, as support for those plans is at a new low among voters:
Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s [...]
Why Does Jimmy Carter Think We’re All Racists?
At The Corner yesterday, Hans von Spakovsky offered a compelling explanation: Carter himself has a history of virulent racism. The facts, drawn from A Voting Rights Odyssey by Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU’s Voting Project, are astonishing:
When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, [...]
Americans Repudiate Democrats’ Hateful Strategy
As I’ve noted several times in recent days, the Democrats’ strategy of trying to pass Obamacare by smearing its opponents as “racists” rather than by debating the plan’s alleged benefits would be politically inept, even if it were not immoral. Confirmation comes from today’s Rasmussen survey, which finds that only 12 percent of Americans [...]
How Big Was the Crowd?
There has been a surprising amount of controversy over the size of the anti-Obama administration protest in Washington yesterday. Liberal media have pegged it in the “tens of thousands” (or even just “thousands”) range, while some have claimed that there were as many as 2 million people there, which seems impossible. There probably [...]
For Democrats confused about the nature of the opposition to their plans
The White House and the Democrats in Congress would do well to read Doctor Zero’s excellent piece on just who, we the opposition, are, and what we stand for.
There seems to be a bit of confusion among Democrats about the nature of the opposition to their plans. Maybe I can help clear things up, by [...]
