The New Townhall

The newly acquired Townhall by the Salem Radio Network launched today. It's a whole new entity with a whole new look. Grab a cup of coffee and spend some time there.

Thomas Sowell's piece, Is patriotism obsolete? is the first thing that caught my eye. It's not your basic feel good rah rah 4th of July hot dogs and firecrackers kind of message, but you need to read it:

On the eve of a holiday that used to stir patriotic emotions -- the Fourth of July -- it has been painful to see examples of how little remains of that glue that holds a society together.

Perhaps the worst of these signs of national disintegration was the New York Times' recent revealing to the whole world the covert methods by which the American government has been tracking the money that finances international terrorism.

The usual excuses about "the public's right to know" ring even more hollow than usual in this case. The public was not dying to know the methods by which their lives were being safeguarded. Only the terrorists were helped by these revelations.

Americans may in fact be dying literally now because of what the terrorists have been told -- and ultimately because a jerk inherited the New York Times. As usual, the mainstream media circled the wagons around one of their own. The media spin is that the terrorists were already bound to know that we were monitoring their international transfers of money. The Times says terrorists had to "suspect" this.

You get the drift! Sowell is spot on as usual. Read the whole thing.