Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:18:07 pm
Time for tonight’s edition of the most extreme, hateful comments posted at the Hot Air blog owned by Michelle Malkin and run by Ed Morrissey and “Allahpundit.” We’ll start off with a few comments from a thread about calls to impeach President Obama. Ed Morrissey seems to believe this is ...

Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:01:25 pm
(Received from Zombie via text message...) Live-blogging from Invesco Field. Walked all the way here with 1000 potheads on the marijuana march. The scene out here is crazy; endless lines six abreast stretching for miles from every stadium entrance. Obama frenzy is palpable in the air. Oooh - the Fred Phelps crazies ...

Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 6:53:56 pm
I know I said I was boycotting the Associated Press, but their take on Independence Day has to be seen to be believed. Americans’ unhappy birthday: ‘Too much wrong right now’. The nation’s psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable ...

Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 5:02:56 pm
Democrats are being introduced for their CNN debate by the Blitzer. The sense of anticipation and eager expectation is almost palpable.

Thu, Sep 6, 2007 at 10:01:46 am
This is what the Muslim Student Association is doing on American campuses, in a video apparently shot by an MSA member at the University of Texas at San Antonio using the name “dawahworks.” The title of the video is: The Missing Hijab 2 & the Jew. You’re not going to believe this, ...

Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 3:21:59 pm
Abu Abdullah, a British convert to Islam and associate of convicted terrorist Abu Hamza, is interviewed by Dan Rivers for CNN and says the US deserved the 9/11 attacks. (Rivers does his best to promote the “tiny minority” line of PC hogwash, in the face of the almost palpable hatred ...

Sun, Jul 9, 2006 at 3:24:37 pm
It seems every day brings another revelation of how far Britain has traveled along the path of appeasement. Today’s appalling story is by Nick Cohen of The Guardian (one of the few sane writers for that rag), on the British Foreign Office’s nearly unbelievable coddling of the world’s most virulently ...

Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 4:47:44 pm
An irony-challenged leftist student who lied about his identity to infiltrate the UC Irvine panel discussion on the Danish cartoons tells a heart-stopping tale of terror: The Disgruntled Chemist. (Hat tip: M.I.M.) Attending that meeting tonight has had a profound effect on me, one that I feel won’t be soon forgotten. ...

Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:33:19 am
This is how bad things are getting in Britain: The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy. (Hat tip: Melanie Phillips.) The poppy is a symbol of the terrible loss of life in World War I in the fields of Flanders, where these blood-red flowers sprouted above the acres of corpses ...

Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 8:03:26 am
Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga of Daily Kos desperately tries to “frame the issues” so that the Kos Kidz don’t look like a bunch of weak, whining stoners: Two ways to address the war. (Hat tip: Chrenkoff.) Democrats have been loathe to talk about Iraq, as their palpable fear get in ...

Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 5:17:34 pm
Iraq has a new government, and al-Reuters’ disappointment is palpable in an article that focuses almost exclusively on whatever negative aspects they can dredge up: Iraq Forms Government Three Months After Polls. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq formed its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years on Thursday, ending three ...

Sun, Apr 3, 2005 at 1:10:26 pm
The open animosity toward Israel in this uncredited Agence France Presse soccer “feature” story is quite astounding: ‘No Arabs, No Goals’: Arabs save Israel despite racist jibes. JERUSALEM (AFP) - “No Arabs, No Goals,” crowed MP Ahmed Tibi as a second Arab-Israeli footballer smashed the ball into the back of the ...

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:39:40 pm
Here’s a piece of really good news, as the Michigan Student Assembly rejected a proposal to begin looking into divesting from Israel: MSA votes against divestment. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Hundreds of anxious students and local community members filled an emotionally charged Michigan Union Ballroom last night, when the Michigan Student Assembly ...

Thu, Nov 4, 2004 at 3:44:40 pm
The sense of disappointment at the New York Times is palpable: Electoral Affirmation of Shared Values Provides Bush a Majority. It was not a landslide, or a re-alignment, or even a seismic shock. But it was decisive, and it is impossible to read President Bush’s re-election with larger Republican majorities in ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2004 at 8:14:34 am
French Muslims are seething and whining: Veiled threats. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) Like most French Muslims, Nora, 25, who declined to give her full name for security reasons, had trouble understanding why Islamic militants in Iraq had captured two French journalists and linked their lives to the repeal of the country’s headscarf ...

Fri, May 21, 2004 at 5:01:29 pm
Here’s a must-read, in-depth article in the alternative weekly East Bay Express, about the sad and scary transformation of Berkeley California, from the birthplace of the Free Speech movement to an epicenter of hatred, antisemitism, and jihad ideology: Berkeley Intifada. (Hat tip: DP111.) “The politicization of this university began forty years ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 3:16:43 pm
The noble mujahideen in Iraq (the people the far left calls the “Iraqi resistance”) have kidnapped three Japanese citizens and are threatening to burn them alive. And eat them. Al Jazeera has been showing their sickening videotape—savages capering around and holding knives to the hostages’ throats—on a continuous loop for the ...

Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 4:32:36 pm
The Mars rovers are doing ground-breaking science on the Red Planet, and it may well be leading to a huge announcement. PASADENA, California — Evidence that suggests Mars was once a water-rich world is mounting as scientists scrutinize data from the Mars Exploration rover, Opportunity, busily at work in a small crater ...

Mon, Nov 3, 2003 at 7:27:22 am
Well, this was entirely predictable; taking a run around the major media sites this morning reveals the press in full bore Quagmire Mode after yesterday’s missile attack that brought down a US helicopter and killed 16 soldiers. The New York Times: News Analysis: As Casualties in Iraq Mount, Will Resolve Falter? The ...

Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 7:25:39 pm
Ugly CNN Bias. I don’t know what else to call it. Read and decide for yourself. GAZA CITY (CNN) -- As Israeli Apache helicopters appear again in the skies over Gaza, a child points and others watch and wait. Although the gunships don't fire missiles this time, the nervousness on ...

Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 4:36:51 pm
Oh man. You will never read a better example of the sick paranoia and America-hatred of the far left (quickly becoming mainstream left) than this bug-eyed piece of lunacy, a fictional look back from the mid-21st century: The Late, Great American Republic: A Report From 2050. (Hat tip: Jheka.) This ...

Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 9:07:33 am
Harvard professor Ruth Wisse makes some excellent points in this article at OpinionJournal: Israel on Campus. (Hat tip: reader Lou Averbach.) The divestment campaign did not just happen, and speakers assaulting Israel do not appear of themselves. This antipathy toward Israel grows from a campus culture that is selectively repressive. ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 6:16:51 pm
The US and its allies are going to stop Saddam Hussein’s quest for the Arab Bomb, and the Arab League is powerless to stand in our way. Robert Fisk gets it. And his disappointment is palpable.

Thu, Sep 5, 2002 at 1:36:52 pm
Last year on November 11 I wrote: Although I’ve seen it dozens of times, the image of that second plane flashing in from the right side of the frame still gets to me in a visceral way. My guts knot up and my throat closes. It’s a home invasion, a ...

Sat, Mar 9, 2002 at 10:46:56 am
In a must-read deconstruction of the Saudi Peace Scam, former CIA agent Reuel Marc Gerecht says when it comes to peacemaking, don’t trust the Egyptians and the Saudis: Losing the Middle East? September 11 should have told us that we must break free from the State Department's traditional interpretation of ...