The Carpetbagger Report

In 1999, shortly after the Columbine shootings, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich identified what he saw as the real problem: liberalism. “I want to say to the elite of this country – the elite news media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton…of being afraid to talk about the […]

About a week ago, Kevin Drum had a post about comparisons between health care in the U.S. and other major world powers. He noted a lazy policy argument that immediately sends up red flags for him. [H]ere’s a handy rule of thumb: any time a healthcare article starts nattering on about hip replacement waiting times […]

Following up on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s conclusion that the war in Iraq is “lost,” National Review’s Mark Levin concluded that the remark was “so disgraceful and brazen that it could have been uttered by Tokyo Rose during World War II or Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War.” He took his outrage near its […]

I haven’t heard too much about this in the media, but it seems like an interesting story that deserves some follow-up (thanks to reader S.M. for the tip). An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel […]

OK, so Alberto Gonzales, after laborious, pain-staking preparation for weeks, bombed this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The pressure on the AG to resign has reached an almost comical level, but the president continues to say, “Gonzo, you’re doing a heckuva job.” If you’re a White House staffer and/or a Republican insider who knows […]

Yesterday, we talked about how Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ message to Iraqi officials — “the clock is ticking” — doesn’t quite match up wit the Bush administration’s actual policy. Today, the Washington Post reports that Gates continues to hint to the Maliki government that the U.S. presence in Iraq will have a deadline. Defense Secretary […]

If you missed Charles Krauthammer’s diatribe from yesterday, it’s worth going back and taking a look. Even by his standards, Krauthammer sunk pretty low. Oddly enough, his initial sentiment was an admirable one. What can be said about the Virginia Tech massacre? Very little. What should be said? Even less. The lives of 32 innocents, […]

The God Machine this week reminisces about a Saturday Night Live skit from the late ’80s called “The Church Lady.” Dana Carvey, playing an uptight religious activist, would routinely ponder moral breakdowns in society and, hoping to identify the culprit, ask, “Could it be … Satan?” The skit had renewed relevance this week, as this […]

Guest Post by Morbo I’ve mentioned before that I set up a Hotmail address to receive e-mails from various kook right groups. These organizations always promise they won’t give your address to others, but of course they lie. One of them gave the address to the campaign of some nut named Bill Greene, who is […]

Guest Post by Morbo Scanning headlines online the day after the mass murders at Virginia Tech, I saw one that read “Nation in shock over school shootings.” I felt a lot of things that day: I was angry, appalled, sad and disgusted. But I felt no shock. Headlines about mass shootings simply don’t surprise me […]