John Tierney (b. March 25, 1953) is a journalist who has worked for the New York Times since 1990. March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Author of The Best-Case Scenario Handbook (a 2002 parody of the popular Worst-Case Scenario Handbook series), Tierney was named on March 1, 2005 an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, taking over from the retired William Safire. Like Safire, Tierney writes from a conservative and partisan point-of-view; he has exhibited some signs of libertarianism, through such stances as his criticism of specific aspects of the so-called War on Drugs. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... An Op-Ed is a piece of writing expressing an opinion. ... William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. ... This article has been constructed by moving sections of the Conservatism article related to the United States and Canada. ... Partisan may refer to: Look up Partisan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. ... This article is about libertarianism, a liberal individualist philosophy favoring private property (the most common meaning of the term today in the US, Canada, the UK and most other English-speaking countries). ... The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...

Tierney is a relatively hawkish writer and a strong supporter of George W Bush. His views on the Iraq War are mixed. While he has "grave, grave problems with the conduct of the operation in Iraq" and wouldn't want to see his twenty-year-old son go there, he also said it is "automatic" that anybody who joins a protest by protesting groups is supporting communists. War Hawk is a term originally used to describe a member of the House of Representatives of the Twelfth Congress of the United States who advocated going to war against Great Britain in the War of 1812. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The Iraq War (2003-present) is an ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastern country of Iraq, which began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continues to the present in the form of an insurgent rebellion, claimed to be led or greatly assisted...

For instance, in a Heritage Foundation forum titled "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?", Tierney said that he believes Cindy Sheehan is an "anti-American communist": "I have to say it is communist", he told an audience at the conservative think tank, also describing the groups involved as "revolutionary socialistic" and "cohorts" of North Korea, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro's Cuba. "We're really dealing with [...] a comprehensive, exhaustive, socialistic anti-capitalistic political structure", he said. The Heritage Foundation, a think tank located in Washington, D.C., is an influential public policy research institute. ... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrīt, sometimes spelled Husayn or Hussain; (Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 ) was the President of Iraq from 1979 until his removal and capture during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has been the leader of Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first Socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. ...

"Tierney identified five groups: ANSWER, Not in Our Name, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice, and MoveOn.org. He said these groups 'come from the Workers World Party' and are an 'umbrella' for smaller groups, such as the 'Communist Party of Kansas City' and the 'Socialist Revolutionary Movement of the Upper Mississippi'. Of the last two, he said, 'I'm just making these up.' Tierney singled out Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq and who camped out at President Bush's ranch this month to protest the war. 'I've never heard of a woman protesting a war in front of a leader's home in my life,' he said. 'I've never heard of anything quite so outrageous.'" (from a 2005 Washington Post article) In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant. ... Not in Our Name (NION) is a United States organization founded on March 23, 2002, in order to resist the U.S. governments course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. ... A participant holds up a sign as part of Code Pinks four-month vigil outside the White House. ... I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!! I SHOULD LET THEM RUN MY CAMPAIGN OVER THE INTERNET!!! THAT IS A GOOD IDEA!!! OF COURSE I AM A WACKO, AND I DO HAVE A BIT OF A SOFT SPOT FOR STALINISTS - Howard Dean ... A group of MoveOn volunteers helped the get-out-the-vote drive in Cincinnati in the run-up to the 2004 U.S. presidential election. ... Cindy Sheehan, in a TV commercial released by Gold Star Families for Peace in August 2005 Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957 in Los Angeles County, California) is an American anti-Iraq War activist who attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace... ...

Tierney started his journalism career as an undergraduate at Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Daily News magazine, and interned at a number of newspapers. He has also worked for Science Magazine, The Washington Star, The Bergen Record, and as a freelancer for many newspapers and magazines. For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... Yale Daily News. ... In North America, an intern is one who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on education rather than merely employment, making it similar in some respects to an apprenticeship. ... Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ... The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1982. ...

External links

• Biography from New York Times
• "Conservative Author Is Seeing Red in America" — Washington Post, 2005