The Carpetbagger Report

First up from the God Machine is an interesting religion story that stirring some hard feelings in Virginia. The College of William and Mary, one of the nation’s oldest public universities, decided to remove an 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar of an on-campus chapel. [College President Gene R. Nichol, who […]

Guest Post by Morbo Remember the days when conservatives supported law enforcement? Those days are gone. Hard-working police officers are now fair game for lies and slander if it’s part of a larger kook right campaign to smear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. For the past two weeks, the Family Research Council has been sending out […]

Guest Post by Morbo This country could use a few more preachers like John Leland. Leland, a contemporary of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, was a Baptist minister and powerful advocate for religious freedom under girded by the separation of church and state. Here are some cool things Leland said: “Government has no more to […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * E&P: “A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress. No, it’s not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq. But you’d be lucky if you could […]

On Monday, we talked about the Office of the Vice President refusing to cooperate with a government directory known as the “Plum Book,” which lists government employees. Federal agencies have to comply by listing staffers in the directory, but Dick Cheney’s office claimed an exemption for itself, arguing that the “Vice Presidency is a unique […]

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is generating plenty of headlines this afternoon. For example, the former Massachusetts governor believes Bush is right about the war, but was wrong in how the war has been managed. Romney is for tax cuts, but doesn’t think we can afford any new ones. But for my money, the real […]

For a while, it looked as if the right planned to attack Barack Obama for his “hidden Muslim background,” which, as it turned out, didn’t exist. Now, it appears the right may be ready to go after Obama’s actual religion. During the “Obameter” segment on the February 7 edition of MSNBC’s Tucker, host Tucker Carlson […]

In October, Heather Cerveny, a Marine Corps sergeant, went public with allegations into prisoner abuse she learned of at Guantanamo Bay. Cerveny spent a week at the base in late September as a legal aide to a military lawyer, and heard directly from several Navy prison guards about harsh, and frequently arbitrary, physical abuse. U.S. […]

For his role in pushing John Edwards to fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is receiving a heaping of scrutiny from the progressive side of the blogosphere for some fairly offensive things he’s said and done over the years. For my money, Nico has found the most pertinent example. Deal […]

National Review’s Mark Krikorian reports today: According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.” Now, the comments seems to be coming at […]