As we watch Obama practice Chicago-style politics, it’s time to answer the question the old media ignores. Who were the key people in the Chicago Machine who helped advance Obama to power? We’ll start at the top. In Chicago, Mayor
A Washington Post columnist reports on a group of limousine liberals who are lobbying to pay more taxes. Of course, there’s no law that prevents them from writing big checks to the government and voluntarily paying more, so what they’re
Just prior to Barack Obama announcing self-imposed conditions on if and when America would use nuclear weapons, he made a North Carolina audience wilt under a 17-minute response to a fairly simple question. According to a rather humorous blog by
Over at Commentary, the estimable Jennifer Rubin notices that even standard-issue, rank-and-file media apparatchiks like the Washington Post‘s Anne Kornblut finally seem to be figuring out that they’ve been had — something the rest of us have known since at
Liberal pundits are racing to heap praise on the Obama Administration’s award of hundreds of millions of dollars in education grants to Delaware and Tennessee – the result of the first round of the Race to the Top competition among
Sean Penn, who has some kind of twisted relationship with Hugo Chavez, recently defended the Venezuelan president. In an article in the Guardian, Penn, “defended Hugo Chavez as a model democrat and said those who call him a dictator should
The University of Washington held a “debate” over the constitutionality of the health care bill in which none of the participants argued it was at all unconstitutional. Explaining this farce, the university claimed they couldn’t find any law professors to
So in her most recent video for her song “Window Seat,” performer Erykah Badu removes all of her clothes while walking along the path where JFK was shot. In a way, it’s like strip poker for Oliver Stone. Offended? Not
Winston Churchill – the statesman who defined champagne as “bottled sunshine” – often suffered bouts of deep depression. He called that frequent companion his “black dog.” After their drubbing in 2008 and Obama’s legislative tsunami – pausing, not ending in
Washington Post: Congress agreed Thursday to amend the nation’s new health-care law, concluding its long and contentious quest to pass major reforms, and prepared to head home for a two-week recess and to hear from skeptical voters about the legislation.
Remember how, following the Fort Hood massacre, Americans were cautioned by pundits and politicians alike not to blame Islam for the actions of one Muslim? A typical mainstream media narrative went something like this excerpt from Sally Quinn‘s Washington Post
America held her breath last night, gripped by the mind-numbing realization that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people could very well be irrevocably broken. The American people are overwhelmingly against this government takeover of
Back in 1946, an ingenious advertising executive named Karl Frost suggested a simple, straightforward political slogan to the Massachusetts Republican Committee: “Had Enough? Vote Republican,” it read. This slogan was soon found on billboards all across the country, and in
[youtube -SCs6pSE8_I&feature nolink] Fox News reported yesterday that black lawmakers alleged they were the targets of racial slurs, including the N-word, as they walked through Tea Party protesters into the Capitol. Today, the Washington Post reported the alleged incident, notably
The Beatles had it best when they sung about the Tax Man. Now my advice for those who die (taxman) Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman) ‘Cause I’m the taxman, Yeah, I’m the taxman. And you’re working for no
We should all know by now that the Obama administration’s plan to spend up to $200 million on civilian trials for terrorists is dangerous. It’s also wasteful. Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a site perfectly suited to such trials–and detentions. If
In Sunset Boulevard you couldn’t help but sympathize with Norma Desmond. She made nostalgia, senility and decrepitude slightly pitiable, but also charming. The New York Times, its stock value in the cellar while squirming under the thumb of a foreign
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Washington Post: “Every time the technician placed the gas pedal to the floor and the brake pedal to the floor the engine shut off and the car immediately
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do The press finally falls out of love with Obama. In Newsweek, Howard Fineman says it’s over: The “mainstream media” are losing patience with, and even interest in, their erstwhile hero. President Barack Obama never
In a lead editorial last month in the aftermath of the great Washington snowstorms, “Lessons from the Snow”, the Washington Post took the stance that the inundation that plagued D.C. (like other points in the U.S.) was nothing but a
Failed former New York Times editor and “self-hating Southerner” Howell Raines — whose dubious journalistic legacy includes the Jayson Blair, Rick Bragg, and the Martha Burk fiascoes — has lurched out of the fly-fishing shadows with this bizarre op-ed piece,
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Washington Post: The largest share of the Nobel funds, $250,000, will go to Fisher House, which provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at major military
If you ever need to a definition for “loser,” in just two simple words, I’ve got it. Howell Raines. If the name doesn’t strike you as familiar, congratulations – you’re one of the many billions of people who never read
The people have written! After sorting through scores of nominations from readers, I am dyspeptic to present another recipient of the “Educated Idiots Award” (EIA), which is given to the arrogant intellectuals unacquainted with real life who foist their insane
Ben Sheffner, at Copyrights and Campaigns Blog, has the breaking story: A state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN’s lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com LLC after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within
