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TPM Frets Over ACORN and Other Democrat Nuts

For Big Journalism readers keeping score at home, every time vote or voter fraud is raised as an issue by the Right, Democrats and the Left, often led by TPM, get so crazy they fall out of their collective tree.

When Bill Clinton Lost His 'Biscuit'

Last night, while watching ABC News (ok, I get it- but, given the other choices to watch, this was the least offensive) Dianne Sawyer introduced a report where Bill Clinton supposedly lost the ‘biscuit‘; that is, the unlock codes for

'I Remembered': Saluting 'The Lives of Others'

A film hailed as the top conservative movie in 25 years enjoyed two showings in D.C. recently, this summer at the Goethe-Institute – the German cultural center in Washington, D.C. – and again last week at The Heritage Foundation’s new

Red Sludge and Anti-Semitism Spread in Hungary

On October 4, a wall holding an enormous reservoir of toxic red sludge collapsed in Hungary. Within an hour, 3 villages were buried deep in in 200 million gallons of the sludge, the waste product from a plant producing alumnina,

Time to Send the Libel Tourists Packing

When someone calls my office and wants to sue somebody for libel or slander, assuming they manage to get through my phalanx of people devoted to keeping me insulated from time burglars, the first thing I say to them is,

What Shoulda' Won 1984's Best Picture? Who Cares?

Well, I’m four chapters into this series and I’m ready to cheat. Why? The 1984 Nominees for Best Picture: Places in the Heart A Soldier’s Story A Passage to India The Killing Fields Amadeus At the risk of sounding like

Antitrust: America's Unfortunate Export

Scholars, journalists, bureaucrats and lawmakers persist in viewing the body of antitrust law as serving the public interest. They still believe in monopolies apart from the ones governments deliberately create. New reports show that the remedy imposed upon Microsoft by

'Catfish' Review: Strange, Human, and Provocative

“Didn’t anybody ever tell you that questions are a danger to you and a burden to others?” – Eugene Krabs to SpongeBob SquarePants Warning: Major Spoilers Ahead There’s been controversy surrounding the authenticity of the documentary film Catfish, from directors

Latin-America "Expert"- or Castro Agent?

Say a “Mid-East expert” at the Heritage Foundation thanked 9/11 terrorists Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari in the acknowledgments to his book. Say the tribute read: “In (terrorist-sponsoring) Syria many people spent long hours with me, helped open doors I

Remember

As it happened: And be sure to read this trenchant piece in Forbes by Claudia Rosett about the enormity that is the Ground Zero mosque: In battening on to the crater of the destroyed Twin Towers, Rauf and his partners