Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome
Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for the right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight message, consider this...
View ArticleSilly, Bristol! Abstinence Pledges are for Lying, Manipulated Kids.
If anyone would want to spin a new narrative and forget her past, it would be Bristol. Every story about her is marred by the taint of professional ne’er-do-well Levi. Who wouldn’t want to start...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: January 31, 2010
When Sarah settled into the new apartment on Bush Street, she became master of her own space and began to move in new directions. “She wanted to be a different person, wanted a new life,” Emily...
View ArticleEverything I Now Need to Know About Sarah Palin, I Learned From Aristotle
In spite of all I admired and wrote in support of Governor Sarah Palin, I cannot claim intellectual honesty if I try to justify her profoundly disturbing endorsement of Dr. Rand Paul. It is one thing...
View ArticleLimbaugh: too subtle for a Schlesinger?
The boys at the George Soros Steno Pool, a.k.a. Media Matters, evidently don’t care about Donny Deutsch explaining to Larry King that gays don’t watch football. Which is weird because they haven’t...
View ArticleSarah Palin’s Detractors and Double Standards
Two events in the past week highlighted yet again the outrageous double standard that the mainstream media and the political Left apply to Sarah Palin. When it was reported that Sen. John Edwards...
View ArticleA Return to Country
The 2010 Grammy Awards had many country numbers, both in the performances and the awards. Country/pop singer Taylor Swift accepted the most important award for the night, Album of the Year, with...
View ArticleKeep the Fringe on the Fringe, Not at CPAC
Back in December, NewsReal’s own Ryan Mauro took the Conservative Political Action Conference to task for accepting the crackpot John Birch Society as a sponsor of CPAC 2010, calling it a...
View ArticleMatters of Life and Death
[This article is reprinted from City Journal] A Cracking of the Heart, by David Horowitz (Regnery, 256 pp., $24.95) Making Toast, by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco, 176 pp., $21.99) Making Toast and A...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: March 7, 2010
The desire for a world that is fundamentally different from the one we have been given was the precise hubris I had found troubling in the radical cause. As Lew had written, revolutionaries and...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: March 28, 2010
I have had the sad task of writing a just-published book about my daughter Sarah who died at the age of 44 from complications related to a birth condition. No parent should have to bury his child, and...
View ArticleJoe Klein Reads Off His Napkin: Beck and Palin “Rub Right Up Close To Being...
Times columnist Joe Klein never misses an opportunity to make a fool of himself. His latest bufoonery was displayed on NBC’s April 18 edition of “The Chris Matthews Show.” I did a little bit of...
View ArticleWhen Love Conquers Politics
This article is reprinted from InsideCatholic.com. A Cracking of the Heart David Horowitz, Regnery, 188 pages, $24.95 David Horowitz remembers the moment well. The author of Radical Son, fresh off his...
View ArticlePrime Time Slime: Larry King Says Sarah Palin Should Pose for Playboy
I know. I had forgotten that show was still on the air, too. Well, I suppose even Michael Moore needs a show to appear on where he is actually slightly more attractive than the host. Anyway, Larry “I...
View ArticleBill Maher Stands Up for America
Visit NewsReal Warning: HBO-level language. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan. In this clip from HBO’s recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the leftist host and comedian says what so many of his...
View ArticleSarah Palin Surprise Support of Fiorina: No Wimps Allowed!
It was but seventy seven years ago that Wimpy murmured to Popeye the Sailor man: “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”. Particularly apt this afternoon because Californians are...
View ArticleSarah Palin’s California Senate Endorsement Underscores Her Need for Gravitas
If ever she hopes to lead conservatives, the Republican Party and America, then Sarah Palin needs to become more serious-minded and substantive like Henry Kissinger. Critics of my recent Sarah Palin...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: May 11, 2010
On a dark Thursday in March the telephone rang and I picked up the receiver to hear my youngest child say “Something terrible has happened,” and I knew that a family member was gone. When death takes...
View ArticlePalin Nails It: the American Apologists Have Never Met a Bill They Have Read
Sarah Palin sometimes has impeccable timing. Today she posted on Facebook that: the American Apology Tour continues. That is both true and unfortunate of course and you can read her post in it’s...
View ArticleJoe Klein’s Falling Sky
Joe Klein is taking a break from his usual attacks on Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to go after a former Bush administration official for daring to criticize President Obama. Posting on “Swampland,” the...
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