Andrew Breitbart has already welcomed you all to Big Journalism. Now I’d like to add my voice to his. As you can see from our logo, Big Journalism will be a throwback in spirit to the freewheeling moxie of the
by Michael Walsh6 Jan 2010, 4:37 PM PST0
I think we were all surprised and disappointed when Michael Mann’s $100 million ode to the midwestern bank robbers of the 1930s, Public Enemies, misfired at the box office, A Nightmare on Elm Street or no Donnie Brasco. After all,
by Michael Walsh3 Jan 2010, 6:52 AM PST0
5. Hide the Decline: “Climategate” and the CO2 ruling Why it’s important: The unauthorized release in November of 61 megabytes of confidential files and emails hacked from the computers at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit – Ground Zero of
by Michael Walsh18 Dec 2009, 1:38 PM PST0
Because nobody who’s anybody reads the The New York Times these days, except the die-harders and dead-enders along West End Avenue, as well as the editors of Time and Newsweek, you may not know who “Clueless” Clark Hoyt is, but
by Michael Walsh18 Dec 2009, 5:29 AM PST0
The other day I made the assertion that Barbara Boxer (D – Tiny Town) was the stupidest member of the United States Senate. I may have spoken too soon. Here’s a serious challenger: Yesterday, in his desperate attempt to win
by Michael Walsh8 Dec 2009, 10:49 AM PST0
As the USS Obama Administration slowly starts to settle into the waves, future historians will be kept busy searching for the source of the iceberg that holed it below the waterline on its maiden voyage to the land of Hope
by Michael Walsh3 Dec 2009, 4:51 PM PST0
On Monday, I discussed some of the background in the ongoing journalistic argument about the tactics used by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles in their ACORN takedowns, first released here at Big Government. This is part two of that discussion.
by Michael Walsh2 Dec 2009, 8:11 AM PST0
The hidden-camera videos by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles detailing the inner workings of the taxpayer-funded leftist racket known as ACORN have set off a storm of journalistic controversy, but not in the way one might think. Rather than engaging
by Michael Walsh30 Nov 2009, 10:21 AM PST0
On Feb. 13, 1985, I stood in the Theaterplatz in Dresden listening to Erich Honecker give a speech. The speech was not simply one of those standard commie stemwinders to which those of us reporting from Eastern Europe and the
by Michael Walsh9 Nov 2009, 8:28 AM PST0
Even more than Washington, Hollywood is famously the land of, “if you want a friend, get a dog.” Pals, business associates, even lovers come and go in this, the country’s last freewheeling bastion of untrammeled capitalism, in which “what have
by Michael Walsh15 Oct 2009, 2:56 PM PST0
Like everyone else driving along Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park last year, I couldn’t help but notice the now-iconic Shepard Fairey “Hope” poster of candidate Barack Obama emblazoned 20 feet high on the side of a building near Dodger Stadium.
by Michael Walsh21 Sep 2009, 4:49 PM PST0
My new novel, Hostile Intent, is out from Pinnacle Books today. Here’s the pitch: When terrorists seize a middle school in the Midwest and issue a list of impossible demands, the U.S. Government must activate its most secret, and lethal,
by Michael Walsh1 Sep 2009, 5:03 AM PST0