A friend who works in banking says that around the office, they call it the e-communist, because of its left-leaning stances.
I will echo one of my favorite comments on this site: "Left of whom, Darth Vader?"
I don't know too much about Star Wars, but is there anything that actually indicates Darth Vader would be politically right-leaning? The empire could very well be authoritarian-left.
Does GP's friend also think that the National Review is too friendly towards the Clintons?
Leaders tends to lean more conservative than the full reports in the rest of the paper. And it's not entirely hidebound. But the paper certainly knows its biases.