Left Rushs to Blame the GOP for S&P Downgrade

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 5th at 09:06 PM  | 

The S&P has downgraded American credit from AAA to AA+, the first time in history. The left is scrambling to blame the GOP for this and is fixated on one paragraph Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this | Read More »

UN Staffers in Afghanistan Killed Due To Barbarism, Not A Burned Koran

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 10:30 PM  | 

On Friday, as many as 20 United Nations staffers were killed in Afghanistan. Reuters reported it this way (emphasis added): (Reuters) – Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 U.N. staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst ever attack on the U.N. in Afghanistan. Note the | Read More »

Islam vs. America

By: hogan (Diary)  |  May 26th at 11:05 AM  | 

Our friend, Andy McCarthy – a former Assistant United States Attorney from the Southern District of New York, and the prosecutor who brought jihadists to justice for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – has written an outstanding book titledThe Grand Jihad – How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. Buy it. Read it. Give it to friends. Give it to dad for Father’s Day. | Read More »