The great Joel Kotkin, peerless observer and chronicler of the nation’s urban and municipal woes, takes on the Golden State and wonders: what the hell happened to what was once the nation’s greatest state. The answer will not surprise you:
Part saint, part hack, all fifties guy. Don Draper, call your office.
Reporters may think they’re being objective and balanced when they first report and then write a story, but those of us who know the racket can spot a rigged stuss game every time. It’s not just a matter of what
My friend and thriller-writing colleague, the great Andrew Klavan, writes in City Journal: Take the e-mails that the Daily Caller obtained from the now-defunct lefty Web service Journolist. Never mind the personal or psychological implications of a radio producer who
Q. The name of your new book is To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. Are things really that dire? Yes. America is not merely a genetic or geographic identity. Our country was founded upon a set of principles clearly
Just yesterday I wrote: For a Chicago pol, whose path to prominence came not via intellectual brilliance or personal charisma but through behind-the-scenes machinations to get opponents thrown off the ballot or have their sealed divorce records made public, “by
You know things are really starting to go south for the Obama administration when its journalistic functionaries and spear-carriers on the left are starting to openly fret and worry as they begin to feel November’s chill wind blowing. The visions
The David Weigel saga continues to stagger on, becoming ever more intellectually incoherent. Not only has Weigel written yet another story about himself, this time for Esquire, but Ezra Klein of the Washington Post — the man who recommended Weigel
It’s one of the most iconic images of America’s greatest city: Edward Hopper’s moody, evocative ode to the City That Never Sleeps: “Nighthawks.” But did the lobster-shift diner shown in Hopper’s most famous painting ever exist? That’s the subject of
And now there are Four. Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart’s fourth “Big” website, Big Peace, launched, fittingly born on the Fourth of July. Editor-in Chief Peter Schweizer, a scourge of liberal mendacity and hypocrisy, is joined by the redoubtable Frank Gaffney and
Some lessons never get old, and there’s always a new generation in need of hearing them. [youtube qXBswFfh6AY&feature nolink]
It’s been a pretty remarkable week, news-wise and media-wise, and to say the two are related would be an understatement. We’ve seen the lid finally blow off the long-simmering Al Gore sex scandal, which certainly serves to explain the otherwise
And so it ends, not with a bang but a Tweet: Larry King, a fixture at CNN since God Almighty was a pup, has announced he’s ending his show in the fall. According to Variety: Here’s what he said at
Complaint_1 – It’s the stuff thrillers are made of: our old friends the Soviets are back, this time calling themselves Russians, but up to their same old tricks: infiltrating the United States with “illegals” — sleeper agents who can pass
By some ironic twist of fate, the Senator from the Ku Klux Klan has died on the same day the Supreme Court — by a distressingly narrow 5-4 ruling — affirmed that the Second Amendment is incorporated, via the 14th
Now that the media has embraced its inner partisan, expect to see a lot more of this behavior: What happens when you combine juvenile snark with the loss of professional standards? Now you know.
The Washington Post‘s David Weigel has resigned in the wake of a series of leaked emails, in which the blogger disparaged various figures in the conservative movement he was “covering” in his official capacity as the Post‘s point man on
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words: Edith Shain, the nurse in one of the great iconographic photographs of World War II, as shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died today at the age of 91.
One of the principal problems with American journalism these days is not simply its ideology, its ignorance or its even outright bias. Rather, it’s its uncritical acceptance of the worst of the left’s philosophical structural framework. Exhibit A is this
Finally, the MSM has thought to survey commenters to learn just why they write what they write and, more important, why they write under the cloak of anonymity. From boston.com, the web site of the Boston Globe: At many of
Andrew Klavan on media lies, Al & Tipper’s split, global warming and much, much more: [youtube 3S3kkecy1Kw nolink]
You knew this was coming. From the New York Post: Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public
[youtube JnhbrAt8mFo nolink] Remember that “settled science” that Laurie David’s alleged married boyfriend was forever prattling on about? Well, surprise, surprise… according to the National Post‘s Lawrence Solomon, it turns out that it’s not so settled after all. The IPCC
Yes, it’s true: the most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College has picked up his marbles and is leaving the Daily Kos liberal lunatic asylum/playpen, hurt feelings trailing in his wake. It seems that, in the aftermath of his less-than-enthusiastic
