Andy McCarthy
All Over the Map
Obama And Domestic Terrorism
Republican Pete Hoekstra admits that, by any reasonable definition, the extremist who flew a plane into an IRS building, a cop-killer who believed President Obama wanted to take his guns, and others of the like are "domestic terrorists." Conor Freidersdorf, who is being driven mad by Andrew McCarthy's refusal to acknowledge that not everybody detained as a terrorist is in fact a terrorist, READ MORE >>
McCarthyism = Lawless Paranoia
No, I'm not talking about the drunken lunatic McCarthy from the 1950s. I mean the sober lunatic McCarthy from today: READ MORE >>
Would Would Saul Alinsky Do in Afghanistan?
Apparently, send 30,000 more troops, says National Review house conspiracy theorist Andy McCarthy: READ MORE >>
How Does the Right Respond To Bigotry?
After picking up my new copy of National Review (not yet available online), I noticed that the first book under review was 'We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism', by NR writer John Derbyshire. Unsurprisingly, the review--courtesy of New York Post film critic Kyle Smith--is a rave ("delightful", "wide ranging", and "gratifying"). READ MORE >>
The Right Reacts To The Prize
Taking a quick look around the right-wing fever swamps this morning, it was possible to form the opinion that the Nobel Prize Committee had honored Barack Obama with its peace prize in order to confuse and enrage American conservatives. The Right clearly did not coordinate its talking points. There was in fact a breakfast buffet of reactions. READ MORE >>
National Review Vs. Andy Mccarthy, Ctd.
It's not exactly William F. Buckley taking on the Birchers, but the clearer heads over at National Review have been making tentative, intermittent efforts to disassociate conservatism from its craziest adherents. The problem, of course, is that some of those adherents work for National Review. READ MORE >>
Lowry's Anti-mccarthyism
National Review editor Rich Lowry writes, "The birthers have been denounced by every reputable conservative." So, he's employing disreputable conservatives? Or is Andy McCarthy so far to the right he's not a conservative? I'm open to either interpretation. READ MORE >>
How Low Can They Go?
Over the weekend at The Corner, Victor Davis Hanson decided to read Obama's mind on Iran and discovered that our president is "almost more at ease with virulent anti-Westerners." Today on The Corner, Andy McCarthy tries to do Hanson one better with this analysis: READ MORE >>
Nro Gotv
Andy McCarthy does his part for the enthusiasm gap: READ MORE >>
