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Secrets of TV News: Confessions of an Anchorman

From the Daily Caller: The following was written by a well-known news anchor from a top-10, big city station: For the last 30 years, I’ve devoted the better part of my life to frightening you, trying my best to make

Telegraph: Breitbart #21 Most Influential US Conservative

From the U.K. Telegraph: 2009 was the breakout year for the irrepressible Andrew Breitbart, 40, a conservative firebrand operating deep in enemy territory in Los Angeles, and the sky will be his limit in 2010. A regular presence on Fox

Homeschoolers: Trailer-Park Denizens or Modern Heroes?

It’s one of the more laughable attacks upon homeschoolers ever concocted. And it came courtesy of a handmaiden of the mainstream media, a feminist legal theorist affiliated with the Georgetown University Law Center. Robin L. West, in an essay titled,

O Ye of Little Faith: The Secular American Media and Religion

The media have an inadequate understanding of religion. This simple fact is corroborated frequently, as mainstream outlets attempt to illustrate stories, explain religious themes and delve deep into faith-based systems. Unfortunately, most outlets miss the mark entirely, as journalists do

For Tea Parties, Bigger Is Not Better

After reading Warner Todd Huston’s article, Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We Could Make in 2010, I was incredulous. It seems misguided to suggest top down management in a time when big companies, big organizations, and big government have received

Top 10 Overrated Movies of the Last Decade

As we say goodbye to the first decade of the new century – and I don’t wanna hear any revisionist bellyaching about the decade not ending until December 2010 – we also say hello to the mainstream media movie critics’

The Mediaite 50: Innovators And Influencers Who Shook Up 2009

From Mediaite: 14. Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com Though he’s not exactly a household name, Andrew Breitbart has long been a power player in the sphere of Internet influence and opinion. The former editor of The Drudge Report, and lead researcher and

Tiger and Barack

Pictures are, they say, worth a thousand words – and sometimes this is really so. Do you remember the photograph of Bill Clinton on the cover of Cigar Aficionado, brandishing a stogie? If you do, my bet is that you

The Political Landscape: The Slobs Versus the Snobs

Last week, Dick Morris became the first pundit to predict a Republican sweep of both houses of Congress next year. Looking at Obama’s sliding poll numbers, and increasing voter frustration, Morris said, “This erosion of support makes the elections of

The War of Words — Why We're Losing

He who defines the rules controls the game. And we’re letting them define the rules. Jobs. Health care. Economic justice. Working families. Income redistribution. Fairness. Words mean things. Very specific things. We on the Right tend to forget that. By