Even before Trump delivered his short speech Tuesday night, the MSM had decided on its theme/meme of the evening: Trump will lie and we will tell you about his lies and correct them. I discussed the situation prior to the … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE on speech below.] He’ll be speaking from the Oval Office at 9 PM Eastern time. The media was hesitant to even broadcast the speech at first, but apparently they have deigned to do so. Kind of them. After … Continue reading →
In an article entitled “Why Trump’s Losing the Shutdown Fight— A simple political rule of thumb: Never hold the government hostage for anything, even if it’s a cherished campaign promise,” Josh Kraushaar writes; Here’s a simple, time-tested rule of politics: … Continue reading →
…for anti-Trump bias: Former ‘New York Times’ executive editor Jill Abramson rips her former publication, slams the media as “anti-Trump,” and complains that younger employees throw out standards in her new book, ‘Merchants of Truth.’ “The more anti-Trump the Times … Continue reading →
The con goes deep with this one: An award-winning German journalist who was recently found to have fabricated parts of stories may be facing more trouble. Claas Relotius, 33, is facing new accusations that he solicited donations for orphans of … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve heard of German journalist Claas Relotius. He wrote for the German periodical Der Spiegel and and had won “numerous awards such as CNN’s Journalist of the Year and Germany’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.” I guess you’d say … Continue reading →
Before I had my political change, I wasn’t particularly aware of which periodicals and newspapers were on the right. I knew of a couple—the WSJ and the Manchester Union Leader, for example. I knew who William F. Buckley was from … Continue reading →
No surprise here. By the way, the lede in that article is very poorly written. Or maybe it’s very well written, depending on what the writers were hoping to convey. Let’s take a look: Former White House chief of staff … Continue reading →
I used to read memeorandum every day. But quite some time ago I stopped looking at it. It seemed that every single day I’d read the same headlines: Trump is finished and Mueller’s finally got him; Trump’s administration is in … Continue reading →
A new study underlines what many of us already knew: The report was compiled by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and titled “Still A Man’s Labor Market,” because of course. The Atlantic article about the report tries to keep … Continue reading →
If you blinked, you might have missed it, but the left-wing rag known as the Guardian published a bombshell story yesterday about a secret meeting between Manafort and Assange, and then slowly and stealthily crept the story back. Everyone fingered … Continue reading →
Blogging used to be the hot new thing. That was back in the dark ages of the Bush administration. I’m not sure when I first discovered blogs, but it was probably around 2002, about two years after I had transitioned … Continue reading →