On Palin, Noonan Is the Antidote to Douthat

Eyal Press, at The Nation: I like Ross Douthat, as I’ve said here before, but earlier this week he wrote a justly panned column in which he claimed, absurdly, that Sarah Palin had been done in by media elites who “mocked and misrepresented” her because she didn’t graduate from...

Obama Reverses Himself on Needle Exchange

AIDS activists are furious and showed it by taking over the Capitol rotunda this morning. John Aravosis has the background: Candidate Obama said he would help overturn the ban on needle exchange. President Obama reversed himself and banned federal funding for needle exchanges in his budget this year. The...

Obama Is Like Hitler, and U.S. Is Like Nazi Germany, Which Is Like Venezuela Under Chavez

That is the premise, apparently, of intellectual giant Jim DeMint’s new book, Saving Freedom: Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book “Saving Freedom.” DeMint told a room of around 100 people about a conversation he’d had...

Leon Panetta and GOP Leaders Owe Nancy Pelosi an Apology

CIA Director Leon Panetta told the House Intelligence Committee in late June that the CIA consistently misled, misinformed, and in at least one case, outright lied to Congress for eight years, beginning in 2001 and ending on the date of his testimony toward the end of last month: In a June 26 letter to Mr....

Massachusetts Sues Feds on DOMA

Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, on the basis that it violates the rights of individual states to legislate on such private matters: Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage, has become the first to...