When The History Channel rejected Emmy Award-winner Joel (24) Surnow‘s $30 million mini-series The Kennedys, it was another message to millions of viewers that have rightly started to ask, “So where’s the history?” History spokespeople claimed that the miniseries did
Victim of Egyptian Islam’s Misogyny and Jew-Hatred Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and raped in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a
CBS war correspondent Lara Logan went to Egypt to cover the protests against Hosni Mubarek in its early, heady days of hope n’ change. She was detained, interrogated, and released. Undeterred, she returned to Egypt last week to continue covering
Yesterday I called my friend Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, President Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. She was busy leading a contingent of folks speaking with Saint Peter about reducing the media budget of the socialist parties that run a blog
The New York Times’s digital media writer Brian Selter reports that Keith Olbermann’s new show will see him taking on both old colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, who assumed Olbermann’s MSNBC time slot, as well as Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. The show is
AP photo and caption: Afghans offer prayers over the coffin containing the body of Malam Awal Gul, an Afghan prisoner who died at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba last week, during his burial ceremony in Jalalabad, east
Our last Republican to hold statewide office was Governor Pete Wilson who left the office in 1999. I’m not counting the last, failed action-star who just left the office and was about as Republican as Nancy Pelosi. Schwarzenegger supported both
New York Times’ “moderate” Tariq Ramadan caught on unearthed video calling down divine vengeance on those he considers Allah’s enemies. [youtube XGA94E-FqD4 nolink] The media fog machine is in full operation on the scene of the Egyptian upheaval. The International
Ronald Reagan’s ideas and lasting accomplishments launched decades of unprecedented prosperity and advanced freedom worldwide. Young America’s Foundation understands that today, our country needs Ronald Reagan’s ideas and his vision more than ever. This is why we’re committed to utilizing
What a difference a day makes. On Monday, former “Journ-O-list” gadfly and current Slate.com blogger Dave Weigel explained to the universe why the video investigation of Planned Parenthood conducted by Live Action has “fizzled“. In a column reeking more of
New York Times’ “moderate” Tariq Ramadan caught on unearthed video calling down divine vengeance on those he considers Allah’s enemies [youtube XGA94E-FqD4] The media fog machine is in full operation on the scene of the Egyptian upheaval. The International Herald
Time Magazine just listed Che Guevara among the world’s top 25 political icons. Che ranks number 9, between Adolph Hitler (8) and Ronald Reagan (10). Mao Tse Tung ranks 3rd, Genghis Khan 5th, and Mohandas Gandhi 1st. So okay, Time’s
As events have developed in the Middle East in the past two weeks we have watched a transition in the public pronouncements of nearly every entity on the planet. The only person to hold ground, to some degree has been
An interesting article comparing the success and pathways of the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington. The same day that Huffington’s $315 million deal with AOL was announced,Media Week’s Brian Morrissey reported that Tina Brown’s merged Newsweek-Daily Beast had
The Muslim Brotherhood has taken a greater role in organizing the protest against the Egyptian regime as it unfolds its independent political agenda. Rashad al-Bayumi, the Brotherhood’s second-in-command, announced in an interview with Japanese TV that the group would join
As events have developed in the Middle East in the past two weeks we have watched a transition in the public pronouncements of nearly every entity on the planet. The only person to hold ground, to some degree has been
Karzai and the Afghan Supreme Court Mullahs — Five years ago, the story of Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert from Islam under prosecution for his faith in US-“liberated” Afghanistan, did not make the pages of the New York Times. The
Falk’s imaginary Ayatollah, circa February, 1979: Having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on non-violent tactics. Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country. If this
Former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker made teachers’ unions what they are today. He was hard-nosed defender of teachers’ rights, but he also came clean about public school performance. [youtube jQF_lnOUpEk] In the making of “Kids Aren’t Cars,”
Sometimes it’s the questions you don’t ask that are telling. Case in point: the New York Times account of our event with Governor Palin last night. Young America’s Foundation hosted Governor Sarah Palin for the keynote address at the opening
Sometimes it’s the questions you don’t ask that are telling. Case in point: the New York Times account of our event with Governor Palin last night. Young America’s Foundation hosted Governor Sarah Palin for the keynote address at the opening
Recently the organized left has been focusing its ire on a new group of center-right donors: the Koch brothers. The British Guardian ran a story with a nice picture of a Greenpeace blimp with a nice stencil of the brothers
Prepare to be outraged. When government officials pitched the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “bailouts” to the American people, we were told the purpose of this “taxpayer investment” was to bring solvency to two institutions that were simply “too big
In 1979, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran ushered in an Islamic theocracy; the face of that theocracy was the Ayatollah Khomeini but there was another group the Islamists desperately needed to help put him in power – the
A writer in Israel gets it right. It might be easier for the radicals to take over in Egypt now than it was for Khomeini in Iran back in 1979. Be sure to read the whole thing. “It would be
