When I saw that Paul Ryan was doing an interview with far left-winger Ezra Klein at the WAPO, I wasn’t wild about the idea because Klein is a diehard partisan. However, I think Ryan did an excellent job of explaining conservative ideas about the economy in the interview.
Ezra Klein: It’s clear now that there’ll be [...]

Of course, given Pakistan’s ongoing double game, there is always the question of whether the groups are banned as in “banned,” or banned as in “just lay low for a bit or consider changing your name.” “Suspected Islamists Shoot Five Christians to Death in Pakistan,” from Compass Direct News, July…

Well, no.  Of course, they are not Nazis.  That is, they are not members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (that’s not quite possible, now is it?) nor are they modern day Neo-Nazi white supremacists.  They are, for the most part, leftists who claim to hate war, favor environmental regulation, women’s rights, gay rights, [...]

“…The stealth form believes in using cultural, intellectual, and political [means]. But their end goal is exactly the same.” While the emphasis on “radical Islamists” sidesteps the fundamental ideological cause of Islamic jihad — the teachings of the Qur’an and the sayings and example of Muhammad — there are…

Cliff May asks common-sensical and thought-provoking questions. They’ll be ignored, of course. “Dear Mayor Bloomberg: A few questions you might want to ask before approving a mosque for Ground Zero,” by Cliff May, July 29: Your Honor: In regard to the proposal to build an Islamic center at the site…

But of course, the learned analysts all know that Shi’ites and Sunnis will never work together! “Reports Bolster Suspicion of Iranian Ties to Extremists,” by Siobhan Gorman and Jay Solomon in the Wall Street Journal, July 27 (thanks to Moishe): WASHINGTON–Cooperation among Iran, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremist groups…

Thanks to the Daily Caller’s stunning expose of Journolist, we now know that the media’s hostility to Sarah Palin (which author Matthew Continetti well documents) wasn’t an accident — it was by intentional and by design.

Both the Wednesday Group and Journolist are avowedly political enterprises designed to coordinate and effect political activism and political action.

But Norquist and the Wednesday Group are honest and forthright about what they are doing. The Journolisters, by contrast, continue to dissemble.

In fact, insofar as I can tell, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Spencer Ackerman, Michael Tomasky, Jonathan Chait, David Weigel, et al. have yet to acknowledge the explicitly partisan political purpose behind Journolist.

An emboldened and empowered Hezbollah sharpens its fangs.

Cameron’s entire argument here rests on the proposition that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists. If that is false, then he is taking a course of extraordinary folly. “Turkey must join EU, says Cameron: ‘Those who are against are playing…