New York Times’ columnist Frank Rich outs himself as a conspiracy theorist in his Saturday column, “Welcome to Confederate History Month,” wherein he fabricates a synthesis of current anti-Obamacare sentiments and events. To build his theory, he connects dots that
This piece, by Andrew Ferguson in Commentary, is almost too easy, but it sure is fun. Did the little furry mammals tuck into the dinosaur eggs with so much gusto? The tiny corner of the New York Times empire where
So Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday in which he used the anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building Oklahoma City as a platform to make a political, rather than a compassionate,
Over the weekend we highlighted Charles Blow’s column in the New York Times about his infiltration of the Grand Prairie, Tex., Tea Party. We questioned why he even bothered attending the event considering that he never interviewed anyone there and
On March 27, 2010 writer Frank Rich was quoted in the New York Times Op-Ed section The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. Is this true? He then closed his article with Are these politicians so frightened of offending
Why does Frank Rich still have a job? Not only is Rich the last and least interesting of the Op-Ed columnists of the New York Times — and, given that his competition includes Maureen Dowd and Paul “The End is
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil fraud charges against Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs. The charges arise from the bank marketing collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to customers without disclosing that a major hedge fund investor, and
Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of Chicago and editor of The Supreme Court Review, has a pertinent suggestion: the retirement of Judge Stevens and the impending nomination of his successor should spark “a frank discussion” of
Last Friday night in New Orleans a female political operative named Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, were attacked and seriously injured by a vicious group of crazed cowards who shrieked insults while pouncing. After the pummeling, the petite
Charles Blow infiltrated a Tea Party event in Grand Prarie, Tex., on behalf of the New York Times. But, apparently he wasn’t there to listen to the substance of the speakers’ speeches or to judge the content of the audience’s
I don’t write about Maureen Dowd simply because she rarely offers anything worthy of serious, intellectual discussion. I don’t claim any sort of high intellect for myself, of course, and don’t necessarily claim to be able to thoroughly judge the
As you know, more young people get their news from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show that anyplace else. For a sizable swath of the population, it hasn’t happened until they’ve seen it on Stewart’s Comedy Central show, and that includes
The New York Times: President Obama on Saturday accused Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, of waging a “cynical and deceptive” attack against a measure to tighten regulation of the nation’s financial system, and vowed to move ahead on the
A recent New York Times poll finds the stupid, racist Tea Party people are really smarter, wealthier and better educated than MSNBC (and even the Times) would have you know. The recently released survey shows: Fewer than 1 in 5
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. If Gandhi got it right, the Tea Party is on the verge of a major victory. The latest log of evidence tossed on this
Over at Salon, that’s the question on editrix Joan Walsh’s lips as she continues to believe the MSM alternate-reality view of the Tea Parties instead of her own lyin’ eyes. Naturally, she begins with that CBS/New York Times poll that’s
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The New York Times: The closing was among the most sweeping peacetime restrictions ordered in British airspace. It left airplanes stranded on the tarmac as the rolling cloud
I recently watched the HBO documentary Reporter, profiling the New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Nicholas Kristof, as he reported on the genocide taking place in the Congo. Notably, the documentary spent considerable time focusing on Kristof’s
In a follow-up to my story this morning and my ongoing series about the CIA’s viscous war on the Department of Defense, the Washington Post is reporting that the CIA’s Deputy Director, Steven Kappes will “retire.” While I have been
In a follow-up to my story this morning and my ongoing series about the CIA’s vicious war on the Department of Defense that is partly being waged in the pages of the nation’s major newspapers, the Washington Post is reporting
I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition
I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition
I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition
Yesterday, Howard Kurtz wrote a sad-sack column about the death of the legitimate entertainment critic. “It can be revealing to find out what people like you, uncredentialed as they may be, think about the new Meryl Streep movie, Philip Roth
No one has ever accused Alec Baldwin of being a rocket scientist, but apparently the actor fancies himself a nuclear physicist. At least that’s the logical conclusion to draw based on his post over at HuffPo entitled “The Human Cost
