After listening to Rush Limbaugh’s non-apology to US soldiers who don’t support the War on Terror, and after listening to Ann Coulter’s non-defense of a type of antisemitism that hasn’t been part of mainstream thought since about 1590 or so, I have come to the following conclusion: Everything the right says to tear down the [...]

I wonder if Michelle Malkin is willing to put her children where her mouth is. Malkin, the always disagreeable right-wing commentator, came down on actress Sally Field’s speech during Emmy broadcast Sunday night. Mrs. Field said this: “If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.” Mrs. [...]

Much has been written about the upcoming reports on the US military efforts in Iraq. Words like redeployment and withdraw have been bandied about, but the favorite in the language of conservatives is surrender. Typical usage: “The defeatist democrats want us to surrender in Iraq.” But the literal definition of surrender at least suggests that [...]