The Carpetbagger Report

The New York Times report on the defused bombs in London included this disconcerting graf: [T]he idea of a multiple attack using car bombs — a departure from the backpack suicide attacks of the London bombings of July 2005 — raised concerns among security experts that jihadist groups linked to Al Qaeda may have imported […]

During his recent visit to TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Regent University, Rudy Giuliani also sat down with Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network to discuss some of the issues on the minds of Christian conservatives. CBN: How do you feel about some of these previous Supreme Court rulings, way back in the day, about school prayer in […]

For years, one of the principal concerns on the left was creating a political and intellectual infrastructure that the right developed over decades. Conservatives had the think tanks, the massive membership organizations, the media outlets, the conferences, the deep-pocketed benefactors, etc. The left started scrambling to catch up in the late ’90s, but the right […]

For an “overblown personnel matter,” the U.S. Attorney scandal sure has produced a lot of Justice Department resignations. A Justice Department official who was considered as a possible replacement for one of several fired United States attorneys has resigned. The official, Rachel L. Brand, the assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy, will […]

The God Machine had to work overtime this week to manage all the fascinating faith-related news items coming its way, so let’s dig in. First, Alabama is in the midst of an awful drought, so Gov. Bob Riley (R) has decided to, well, just take a look. With the state’s weather forecasters not delivering much-needed […]

Guest Post by Morbo So who are all of these people who got whipped up into a frenzy by talk radio over immigration reform and bombarded the Senate with messages, terrifying the members of that body into submission? The Washington Post profiled some of them recently. Turns out they are (big surprise) xenophobes who cannot […]

Guest Post by Morbo Jay Sekulow is an attorney who works for TV preacher Pat Robertson. He is generally regarded as one of the smarter Religious Right lawyers out there and has successfully argued cases before the Supreme Court. It’s too bad he doesn’t understand the principles of free speech and freedom of religion. In […]

Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger has been remarkably restrained when it comes to [tag]Paris Hilton[/tag]. A search of the blog shows her mentioned only in passing. I salute him for that — and I’m not just saying that because this is his blog and I’m trying to suck up. (OK, maybe a little bit.) […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * The bomb found in London this morning wasn’t the only one: “Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a car bomb that could have killed hundreds after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and […]

Yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporters from across the country staged a surprising walk-out to protest Rupert Murdoch’s impending takeover of the newspaper. After seeing some of the comments Murdoch made to Time’s Eric Pooley, it’s hardly a mystery why WSJ professionals are worried. “CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their […]