The Power Line blog has a post this morning on a surprising honest review in the Washington Post of the new book, Necessary Secrets. From the Power Line post: The review is by Leonard Downie, Jr., who was the Post’s
In 1989, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a major environmentalist group, launched a nationwide panic over the presence on apples of alar, a chemical growth agent. On TV shows such as “60 Minutes” and “Donahue,” and in major women’s
A gray beard and a 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics go a long way to establishing a fellow’s credibility in discussing the current situation in Greece and how it relates to the U.S. economy. In his May 13 New York
In 1989, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a major environmentalist group, launched a nationwide panic over the presence on apples of alar, a chemical growth agent. On TV shows such as “60 Minutes” and “Donahue,” and in major women’s
Over a month ago, I warned that the New York Times was about to go public with a list of American operatives covertly working in Afghanistan and Pakistan providing Force Protection for our troops. Yesterday, in a front page article
I grew up in the fairly small city of Little Rock, Arkansas, and from as early as I can remember, I wanted to escape to Los Angeles or New York City and enter the world of showbiz. I watched and
Widely reviled by the left, Bush’s faith-based initiatives were claimed to be evidence that Bush was a “religious zealot” trying to destroy America with evil Christianity. Now, two years into the Obama administration, we are seeing what Obama intends to
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The New York Times: Throughout the day and into the night, gunfire and explosions shook neighborhoods in central Bangkok that ring the one-mile area where the protesters have
Okay, in a fit of journo-masochism, I have been monitoring Keith Olbermann’s tweets, commentaries and Countdown over the past 24 hours for his vitriolic reaction to the New York Times report that President Obama has authorized the CIA to target
Newspapers and their online cousins are the new science textbooks. At least that’s where the students in my introductory geology class at Brooklyn College appear to be learning about global warming, pollution, and other science issues of general interest. The
The New York Times is letting Charles M. Blow write again. They’re not doing him any favors. Here’s his lede: Racist. Tea Party. Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask. Probably best to stop
In what can only be construed as a complete loss of any semblance of goodness and morality in the name of multicultural poison, the most advanced civilization on the world is sanctioning…clitorectomies. They have issued a policy statement suggesting that
The New York Times: All it took to reinvigorate a 35-year-old comedy show was the presence of an 88-year-old woman.
Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, who writes under the by-line The Plum Line, criticizes pollster Whit Ayres for suggesting that the failed Times Square bomb incident gives Republicans a political opportunity. Sargent closes his blog with: Ayres is the GOP
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Tea Party movement is “struggling to overcome accusations of racism,” some of which has been perpetuated in its editorial pages. Yesterday’s New York Times, home to the most obsessively anti-Tea Party editorial page
More hope and change… Faisal Shahzad was removed from the national terrorist surveillance list before the Times Square attack. (CBS News) Confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad was removed from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama
As a proud former staffer of Time Magazine, where I spent 16 mostly terrific years working with some of the finest writers and journalists who ever graced the business — you’re not going to get any snark from me about
President Obama’s distain for those associated with the Tea Party movement goes back at least as far as his 100th day in office when he said this: [youtube sKooYzRkSI4 nolink] The President’s mockery has continued with a sustained tone of
KATIE COURIC: Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg, for sitting down with us. The other day, sir, you guessed that the Times Square bomber was “homegrown,” and now authorities have arrested a Connecticut man in connection with the case. Can you tell
From The Hill: The world’s top-earning hedge fund managers have bankrolled almost exclusively Democratic campaigns. The top 10 highest-paid hedge fund managers in 2009 have dished out campaign contributions almost only to Democrats. Over their lifetimes, those managers have given
Fresh and innovative, Patrol Base Jaker is a captivating retelling of the remarkable history of Afghanistan from the Russian invasion to the current U.S. counterinsurgency operation. Walk in the boots of the Marine combat and civil affairs teams in Helmand
Here’s a story that’s sure to warm your unemployed heart. From the New York Times: The media industry may be going through some rough times, with the landscape changing day to day, but at least one aspect is business as
The case of Too Much Media, LLC (Plaintiff) v. Shellee Hale (Defendant), decided by the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division on April 22, 2010, is not a decision that should cause alarm among those who are engaged in,
The New York Times has an article describing widespread tax evasion in Greece, along with an implication that the country’s fiscal crisis is largely the result of unpaid taxes and could be mostly solved if taxpayers were more obedient to
We hear a lot about the tea party movement’s supposed potential to inspire violence an awful lot from the left and their allies in the lamestream media. It’s a predictable response to a powerful grass-roots movement that they aren’t capable
