I happened to catch David Remnick on television the other day pluggng his new biography of President Obama, The Bridge. It was the first time I’d ever seen New Yorker editor Remnick, and I was transfixed by the hushed and … Continue reading →
See that pig flying overhead? It’s CNN’s relatively fair article about the Tea Partiers. The only flaw (and it’s a biggie; but hey, CNN’s just a news outlet, so we can’t really blame them for spreading undocumented “facts”) is that … Continue reading →
The Anchoress writes with her usual grace, this time about the turmoil in the Catholic Church over allegations of abuse coverups, and why she remains a Catholic nevertheless. And what of the role of our friends in the media in … Continue reading →
Where to begin? I didn’t see the Baier interview on TV, and when I tried to watch the video it stopped after six minutes and would not start again. But I’m not so sure I could have stomached much more … Continue reading →
Ah, the subtle nuanced thought processes of the liberal intelligentsia, as exemplified by Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic and its resident social welfare policy and health care expert. Cohn sees discussion of the legal issues raised by … Continue reading →
Simon Heffer remarks on the apparent fracture of the Obama in-crowd, and sees it as a sign that things are going very badly indeed for the administration: The descent of Barack Obama’s regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic … Continue reading →
Yesterday John Patick Bedell walked up to the Pentagon and shot two officers there before being killed himself. Bedell hated George Bush and was a 9/11-truther. And yet Peter Grier of the Christian Science Monitor calls him he was a … Continue reading →
Today two columnists try to dish out the tasteless old pap claiming that, although Obama and the Democratic Party are tanking, it’s not the President’s fault. The dauntless Obama apologist E.J. Dionne claims that it’s the Senate’s fault, as well … Continue reading →
I don’t link to Andrew Sullivan, and you may notice I ordinarily don’t discuss him. And I’m not going to do too much of either here, except to say I consider that something very sad and disturbing happened to his … Continue reading →
James O’Keefe has posted a statement at the Big Government site explaining his side of the story: I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman is very angry at President Obama for his spending freeze proposal. And when I say “very,” I mean very. Krugman’s most recent piece is short, only 214 words. But it contains a surprising amount of death imagery—mostly in … Continue reading →
And you’re not. According to Klein, the reason Americans don’t appreciate the wonders of the stimulus is that they’re a nation of ill-informed dodoheads, especially those who listen to Fox News. The remedy he proposes, in true wordsmith fashion, is … Continue reading →