Joseph Farah

Sipping coffee in a strip mall, Joseph Farah looks like something out of a spy novel -- suave, mysterious, bushy black mustache. He's surprisingly relaxed, considering he believes his life is in danger because of his occupation. He runs a must-read website for anyone who hates Barack Obama. Once a little-known Los Angeles newspaper editor, Farah has become a leading impresario of America's disaffected right, serving up a mix of reporting and wild speculation to an audience eager to think the worst of the president.

Sipping coffee in a strip mall, Joseph Farah looks like something out of a spy novel -- suave, mysterious, bushy black mustache. He's surprisingly relaxed, considering he believes his life is in danger because of his occupation. He runs a must-read website for anyone who hates Barack Obama. Once a little-known Los Angeles newspaper editor, Farah has become a leading impresario of America's disaffected right, serving up a mix of reporting and wild speculation to an audience eager to think the worst of the president.

When Marybeth Bizjak moved from the San Francisco Chronicle to the Sacramento Union as feature editor a year ago, she thought she was supposed to "liven up the features--to put a little punch into that part of the paper." But 10 weeks later she was out of a job after running a story on the AIDS Memorial Quilt--a series of panels dedicated to those who have died of AIDS that has been traveling around the country. "My editor told me, 'You don't understand.

He makes anti-capitalist movies but is building a 16,000-square-foot mansion on 1,200 acres in Colorado. He hates bourgeois America because it is against everything "progressive" but maintains four homes, all fully staffed and professionally decorated. He doesn't feel any guilt about his opulent lifestyle because "that's a Western Christian trip." You've heard of limousine liberals? Meet the first aristocratic anarchist--movie director Oliver Stone.

Deeply depressed since she found out that she had terminal cancer, Marilyn thinks she has found a solution to the physical pain and the emotional ordeal. Her doctor has agreed to help Marilyn kill herself. No psychological evaluation of Marilyn will be necessary. No family members need to be consulted on this monumental and irreversible decision. No alternative approaches or treatment need to be discussed. This is, the law says, strictly a matter between doctor and patient.

Imagine the following hypothetical scenario: It's 1988, and George Bush has just been elected President. An oil industry executive and major contributor to the campaign announces that he has leased, at $8,000 a month, a mansion on the Gulf Coast of Texas for use by the new chief executive and his family anytime they want to "just kick back and relax for a few days." How do you suppose news reporters and other self-appointed ethics cops would react?

Here's a little common-sense test: -- Imagine you run a small Jewish deli and you have an opening for a checkout cashier. In walks an applicant with a swastika tatooed prominently on his arm. Do you hire him? --Pretend you own a fast-food restaurant in a predominantly black neighborhood and you need a short-order cook. The most technically qualified person seeking the job is a skinhead fond of wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "White Power." Does he get the job?

He makes anti-capitalist movies but is building a 16,000-square-foot mansion on 1,200 acres in Colorado. He hates bourgeois America because it is against everything "progressive" but maintains four homes, all fully staffed and professionally decorated. He doesn't feel any guilt about his opulent lifestyle because "that's a Western Christian trip." You've heard of limousine liberals? Meet the first aristocratic anarchist--movie director Oliver Stone.

When Bill Honig blames his indictment, trial and conviction on felony conflict-of-interest charges on a right-wing conspiracy, he probably means me. I was the editor of the only daily newspaper in the state that doggedly pursued the flagrant violations of the public trust by the California superintendent of schools until the attorney general's office finally began an investigation.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged, someone once said. If so, what happens to a liberal city that gets mugged? During the heat of the Los Angeles riots, some normally politically correct residents of the Hollywood Hills barricaded major entrances to their neighborhood with automobiles, patrolled the streets with AR-15s and handed out firearms to any law-abiding homeowner who would take one.

When Bill Honig blames his indictment, trial and conviction on felony conflict-of-interest charges on a right-wing conspiracy, he probably means me. I was the editor of the only daily newspaper in the state that doggedly pursued the flagrant violations of the public trust by the California superintendent of schools until the attorney general's office finally began an investigation.

Imagine the following hypothetical scenario: It's 1988, and George Bush has just been elected President. An oil industry executive and major contributor to the campaign announces that he has leased, at $8,000 a month, a mansion on the Gulf Coast of Texas for use by the new chief executive and his family anytime they want to "just kick back and relax for a few days." How do you suppose news reporters and other self-appointed ethics cops would react?

Deeply depressed since she found out that she had terminal cancer, Marilyn thinks she has found a solution to the physical pain and the emotional ordeal. Her doctor has agreed to help Marilyn kill herself. No psychological evaluation of Marilyn will be necessary. No family members need to be consulted on this monumental and irreversible decision. No alternative approaches or treatment need to be discussed. This is, the law says, strictly a matter between doctor and patient.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged, someone once said. If so, what happens to a liberal city that gets mugged? During the heat of the Los Angeles riots, some normally politically correct residents of the Hollywood Hills barricaded major entrances to their neighborhood with automobiles, patrolled the streets with AR-15s and handed out firearms to any law-abiding homeowner who would take one.

Here's a little common-sense test: -- Imagine you run a small Jewish deli and you have an opening for a checkout cashier. In walks an applicant with a swastika tatooed prominently on his arm. Do you hire him? --Pretend you own a fast-food restaurant in a predominantly black neighborhood and you need a short-order cook. The most technically qualified person seeking the job is a skinhead fond of wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "White Power." Does he get the job?

When Marybeth Bizjak moved from the San Francisco Chronicle to the Sacramento Union as feature editor a year ago, she thought she was supposed to "liven up the features--to put a little punch into that part of the paper." But 10 weeks later she was out of a job after running a story on the AIDS Memorial Quilt--a series of panels dedicated to those who have died of AIDS that has been traveling around the country. "My editor told me, 'You don't understand.

Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year, some party insiders now fear that extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theories coming from the angry reaches of the conservative base are undermining the GOP's broader credibility and casting it as the party of the paranoid. Such insiders point to theories running rampant on the Internet, such as the idea that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be president, or that he is a communist, or that his allies want to set up Nazi-like detention camps for political opponents.

Thank you for trying to show both sides of the Clinton/Summerland issue (Column Left and Column Right, Dec. 1) but neither Tom Hayden nor Joseph Farah revealed anything more than their dedication to the polarization between ultra-liberals and ultra-conservatives, which the electorate clearly rejected on Nov. 3. I strongly supported and voted for George Bush, but I see nothing wrong with Bill Clinton's acceptance of the Thomasons' largess....