Yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the Pentagon Papers’ publication. A year ago on the 40th anniversary, Daniel Ellsberg took a moment to air a few regrets that he didn’t release the Papers sooner, and to encourage the current possessors … Continue reading →
…gives us all a lesson in sophistry.
Continue reading →Yesterday’s PJ article and its comments yielded a couple of further thoughts. One was this comment at PJ, which I think succinctly sums up some of the problems in inherent in the presentation of war photos or indeed any other … Continue reading →
Today is a National Day of Blogger Silence (a sort of oxymoron?). The purpose is explained in this post by Ace, and Michelle Malkin has much more to say here, including contact information (Malkin is nothing if not thorough): Free … Continue reading →
It’s been forty years since this photo shocked Americans: Do you know the story behind the photo? I tell it in this article at PJ. Some of what you read may surprise you. [NOTE: I’ve written about the photo before, … Continue reading →
Walter Russell Mead reflects on the same topic I talked about yesterday, when I discussed a piece by John Nichols in The Nation and spoke of the left’s reaction to its drubbing in Wisconsin. Mead zeros in on one in … Continue reading →
Last night I was listening to some talking heads nattering on about the results of the Wisconsin recall. What it means for Obama, what it means for public sector unions, what it means for Democrats, what it means for Romney. … Continue reading →
Now there’s a bit of a furor about a blurb from Obama’s literary agent in 1991 that listed him as Kenyan-born, as well as a 2004 AP article from the days of his Senate race against Jack Ryan that does … Continue reading →
In the matter of the dueling shock-value Newsweek and Time magazine covers, Ed Driscoll explains it all for you. And there’s something so disturbing about the Time cover that I’m not putting the image on the blog. It’s certainly not … Continue reading →
The WaPo has trouble getting its Romney-the-wicked-and-abusive-gay-bashing-haircutter story straight. A source it quoted in the WaPo story as having “long been bothered by the…incident” said in an ABC interview the next day that he was not present when it happened … Continue reading →
Obama’s declaration about gay marriage is getting an unbelievable amount of press. It’s as though it actually means something, other than that for some reason Obama has decided to abandon his pretense of being against gay marriage. It’s being framed … Continue reading →
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →