Today, Greenwald wrote in support of Ezra Levant, who is being persecuted by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Calgary — at the behest of Islamist grievance-mongers — for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons in Canada’s Western Standard. Granted, given that his primary claim to fame as a First Amendment expert is his defense of Illinois neo-Nazi Matthew Hale, it would be difficult for him to reach a

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the tendency of the establishment media, from the outset of the invasion of Iraq, to view the story through the prism of Vietnam — or at least the establishment media’s view of Vietnam. This was likely one reason why The New Republic landed in the scandal over its “Baghdad Diarist,” Pvt. Scott Beauchamp.  The story of the soldier dehumanized and involved in inhumane or

Gateway Pundit and Judith Apter Klinghoffer flag Sen. Hillary Clinton’s attempt to take credit for progress in Iraq on NBC’s Meet The Press: SEN. CLINTON: Tim, I’m going to go back to what the whole point of the surge was, and the testimony that we heard last fall. The point of the surge was to push the Iraqi government to make these tough choices. Now, if we put in 30,000

In the wake of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) endorsing Sen. Barack Obama, Josh Marshall writes: Endorsements don’t usually count for much. But if they’re big enough and come at critical moments they can count for a lot. And this string of endorsements Obama has picked up since his narrow defeat in New Hampshire four days ago is, I believe, a major story that has not gotten the attention it deserves. Marshall

Sens. Clinton and Obama, their supporters and the media may talking about the racial politics of Black and White, but the campaigns on the ground are focusing on what Brown can do for them. Reading Jay Cost’s otherwise fine analysis of how Clinton and Obama will battle over various voting blocs on Super-Duper Tuesday — which I highly recommend — the one omission that leapt out was the Hispanic vote.  In my