Andrea Mitchell named the tea party movement as her pick for “person” of the year: They’ve changed the debate on deficit reduction. They’ve got, you’ve got Ron Paul now in charge of monetary policy from the House. They have changed
Oh, the activists in the old media commit sins of omission and sins of commission, sometimes both in the same story. Take those pesky little ol gas prices that have now skyrocketed to more than $3.00 a gallon. For months
When the United States officially announced that negotiations over the proposed extension of Israel’s building freeze had failed, an interesting thing happened. The way the news was announced, it was phrased in such a way as to appear that the
In her recent New York Times piece, Maureen Dowd conjures an interesting take from the latest episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”, an episode which features Palin out caribou hunting with her father: Sarah’s view of America is primitive. You’re either
In my fiscal policy speeches, I sometimes try to get a laugh out of audiences by including a Powerpoint slide with this image. Leading up to this slide, I talk about the Armey/Forbes flat tax and explain that it would
In the Middle East, a former Bush administration official once told me, perception is reality. That is one reason why bad ideas have such staying power–it’s about a narrative, not results. But when those bad ideas finally die, it serves
We are a nation at war. We are engaged in combat in two countries. We have combat and support troops in scores of countries around the globe. Hostile groups plan and operate 24 hours a day against us. They would
Much to my surprise, Senate Republicans held firm yesterday and blocked President Obama’s soak-the-rich proposal to raise tax rates next year on investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. I fully expected that GOPers would fold on this issue several months
The Society for Professional Journalists recently deemed that “ethical journalism prevailed” in the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified government documents by WikiLeaks. In her post on Thursday, SPJ’s President Hagit Limor wouldn’t commit to saying that Julian Assange
In the annals of rancid-souled, unfunny female comics, Margaret Cho ranks right alongside Janeane Garofalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne, Joy Behar and Sandra Bernhard. Cho is probably probably most famous for using the near-breakdown caused by the cancellation of her 1994
The ongoing need (and demand) for a variety of media voices was evidenced, recently, in a modern morality tale featuring a preacher and his prayer. On Nov. 16th, at the take-the-oath-of-office ceremony for incoming Oklahoma legislators, held at the state
The latest Wikileaks dump – it’s a wonderful way to highlight some, um, issues with cyber-security, and allows the chattering classes to bloviate ponderously on topics they really don’t know that much about. I, for one, am not stunned by
If there’s one phrase the media loves, it’s “a chilling effect.” Whether it’s the Patriot Act, censorship laws or nudity bans – it always causes a chilling effect on something (usually my toes). This “chilling effect” is defined as speech
Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information — data that can help paint a picture of the foundation upon which US foreign policy is built. Never before has the trust
[youtube HHT1XGv3wSE nolink] Editor’s note: the following with written with Sasha Giller Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is at a tipping point. In the next 60 days, it may split into two countries, or it may devolve into a mass killing
Ever since the shellacking Democrats suffered in the midterms, their strategists and donors have been meeting to discuss plans for 2012. Tuesday, the New York Times reported on the latest high profile effort by David Brock, head of Media Matters:
The hallmark of the American approach to Afghanistan has been to negotiate with the Taliban. American diplomats, at the direction of the Obama Administration, have been sitting down for detailed negotiations with Mullah Mansour, a senior commander of the Taliban.
We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better
Following in the footsteps of his political predecessors, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is selling the Jewish birthright to the land of Israel for less than a bowl of lentil stew. His willingness to betray the Israeli government’s mandate to
Via an op-ed in the New York Times, Congressional Quarterly staff writer, Brian Friel, offers the incoming GOP-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee some suggestions as to what they perhaps should and should not consider investigating next year. What’s
Via an op-ed in the New York Times, Congressional Quarterly staff writer, Brian Friel, offers the incoming GOP-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee some suggestions as to what they perhaps should and should not consider investigating next year. What’s
From the New York Times: And as officials frenetically tried to paper over differences among the Group of 20 members with a vaguely worded communiqué to be issued Friday, there was no way to avoid discussion of the fundamental differences
“Here boys! — Come here, boys!” yelled the Castro regime in September. Tongues out and tails wagging, those intrepid sleuths who staff the MSM (particularly its Havana bureaus) promptly mobbed the Stalinist regime’s propaganda ministry, slobbering all over them. In
Nancy Pelosi’s self-indulgent bid to remain leader of the House Democrat Caucus has hit some road-blocks. Not only does the New York Times think this is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea, but several House Democrats have recently realized
— Washington Post: With Obama visiting Indonesia today, the New York Times has a story that is just chock-full of interesting tidbits about Obama’s time living there as a child in the late 1960s. For example, the Times reports that
