Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the Wall Street Journal: Despite the strong association of the term with collective Jewish guilt and concomitant slaughter, Sarah Palin has every right to use it. The expression may be used whenever an amorphous mass is collectively accused of being murderers or accessories to murder. If we define it vaguely enough [...]

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My fellow leftoids may rage against FOXNews, but I appreciate the service they provide: putting all the right-wing crazy into one predictable package. Really, I don’t need Media Matters to cherry-pick the offensive and stupid, when all I have to do is look for the FOXNews byline on my Google News reader, and I know [...]

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Roger Ebert on Glenn Beck’s latest, um, crusade? What are the words “social justice” code for? Why, Nazism and Communism, says Beck: “Social justice was the rallying cry–economic justice and social justice–the rallying cry on both the communist front and the fascist front.” Beck even went so far as to cite Jesus Christ, saying, and [...]

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A year or so ago I subscribed to the OneNewsNow newsletter, an organ of christian conservatives that is reliably parroting and ridiculous. One value it adds is a constant monitoring of wins and losses in the culture wars, especially in the theaters of abortion rights and same-sex marriage. Of course, what they count as a [...]

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