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So, in that Rolling Stone piece that brought down General McCrystal, the writer spent three weeks with the troops. What did he find? Trash talk directed at bureaucrats. Yeah, I know. Here’s a fact: if someone followed me around for

The important issue prompted by the Rolling Stone article isn’t Gen. McChrystal’s defiance or rank insubordination. It’s the announced deadline for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, an insane move that guarantees defeat, as well as other war-losing moves. Would you ally

The title of the latest blog post from the Washington Post‘s Ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reads; “Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives.” Alexander makes an incorrect assumption that the Weigel incident caused the Post to lose standing among conservatives.

Michael Hastings, who authored the now-infamous article on Gen. McChrystal, speaks to CNN’s Larry King about the piece.

Shortly after President Obama assumed the Commander-in-Chief duties, he retired the existing commanding general in Afghanistan and hand-picked his successor: General Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal was always known as a brash and outspoken military man, an expert in counterinsurgency, greatly respected

I’ve seen top heavyweights tangle many times. Mike Tyson was the most brutal I’ve seen, but Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield top the list the best matchups I’ve seen. Now we have Obama vs. McChrystal. The President vs. the General.

Hey, remember when mockery and ridicule of Their One resulted in charges of racism from the Left? Well, finally, Obama’s stunning incompetence has accomplished what sea-rising speeches could not: brought us all together. Over the course of just a few

In his June 8, 2010, 7,000-plus word Rolling Stone article entitled “The Spill, The Scandal, and the President,” Tim Dickinson fixed blame for the oil leak in the Gulf, but ignored how the effort to fix the mess it’s causing

***UPDATE: Most embarrassing grammatical error in the history of Big Hollywood has been fixed. First off, though Kilmer claims he was misquoted, what he is accused of saying doesn’t even mention race. Second, in America, even the most vicious and

Why a Beastie Boys series on Big Hollywood? Perhaps “To the Five Boroughs,” an album that largely eschews the fun party vibe in favor of left-wing political rants, helps to answer that question. Here’s the thing about politics and music,

This was the album that had me worried. In the wake of the commercial failure of “Paul’s Boutique,” would the Beasties try to rehash “Licensed to Ill?” I heard from a buddy it was going to be more like a

The world may have entered a gigantic metaphorical sphincter but there is progress in at least one field. Power pop has never been better. We are living in one of the great musical flowerings of history and it shows no

Super-heroes are uniquely American in origin and reflective of the “Greatest Generation” that created them. Their progenitors can be traced to ancient myths though their direct foundation springs from American legends like Paul Bunyan and John Henry. Pulp literature fermented

Nashville’s The Shazam have been around since 1993, delighting audiences with anthemic, hook-laden rock in the spirit of their two poles, The Who and The Move. They moved beyond those obvious influences on ’03’s stunning Tomorrow the World, a blast

Forty years ago this week the cover photo for the “Abbey Road” album was taken, representing the final walk of the Beatles as a rock group. Fourteen days later, on August 22nd, they posed together for a final promotional photo

I remember reading years ago that Lisa Marie said that, in private, Michael Jackson spoke in a perfectly normal (well…) male voice. By the magic of Google, I found the piece and present it to you. Tina Brown, Washington Post,

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Few shows illustrate how low the state of popular music has fallen than “American Idol.” While AI regularly finds singers of talent, the songs they feature are mostly chestnuts. The show also encourages the type of singing that is more

TMZ: The Hulkster said his Rolling Stone interview was a 3-day long affair, in which he said he was really the anti-OJ Simpson. But here’s the thing. Last night, he explained, “I didn’t do the OJ Simpson thing. I took

Rolling Stone: The presidential inauguration doubled as a mini-music festival of sorts, with many of the biggest names in rock, hip-hop and R&B taking the stage at galas across Washington, DC. At the nationally televised Neighborhood Ball, Barack and Michelle

It wasn’t that long ago that my friend Bernard Goldberg told me he was never going to write another book. It was just a lot of hard work, he complained, and while he was working on one, virtually all joy

I almost used the title: “Sappy Singer-Songwriter Sends Self into Career Epilogue“, to save some of you a lot of time… Hi. Writing a first post has been very difficult, because there’s no going back after this. Six years ago

NYT: The rapper once dubbed “America’s Most Loveable Pimp†by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, “Singh Is Kinng.†The movie is set