[1rudeboy]

If I’m not mistaken, Hentoff is pro-life and pro-gun. Not sure why he is otherwise a liberal.

He's not. He's a libertarian (from the Left).

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hentoff used to write for The Village Voice which was about as left as it gets. He is, and always has been a First Amendment absolutist. I think he got his walking papers from VV during the reign of Clinton, when he called Clinton a disgrace, and thought he should resign. Nothing about 9/11 changed his mind. He recognizes that Islamofacists are a threat.