I’m getting rather tired of talking about Trump. But he certainly knows how to get publicity. For example, there’s a predictable furor right now about Trump’s remark that during the debate Megyn Kelley had “blood coming out of her whatever.” … Continue reading →
…here: Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the article’s author Wednesday, court records … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton is hopping mad at the NY Times‘ coverage of the story of an investigation by two inspectors general into whether Clinton’s SOS emails had been “mishandled.” The Times had said the investigation was criminal in nature, and implied … Continue reading →
Glancing at today’s memeorandum page, I noticed two stories towards the top that deal with Hillary Clinton’s emails, one right under the other. The first is from Britain’s Daily Mail, and this is what you see on the memeorandum page: … Continue reading →
Well, they say you learn something new every day, and yesterday was no exception. Yesterday I learned that “Asian” means something quite different in Britain than it does in the US. Several commenters to this post of mine revealed that … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see this subsequent post on the British use of the word “Asian.”] The Rotherham sex scandal, already bad enough, grows in scope: The sex-trafficking ring in Rotherham may well be the worst in the West ever, or so … Continue reading →
After all, it’s probably the worst cyber-breach the U.S. has ever experienced, as Megan McArdle points out. And yet if you were to do a survey of most of your friends on the matter, many of them may be unaware … Continue reading →
And I don’t think they care. Just the narrative, Ma’m, just the narrative. Case in point: how many times, in how many places, did you read that Roof’s father gave him a gun for his 21st birthday, which occurred in … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ray” writes: Black lives matter, except when they don’t. I live outside Washington DC and last weekend 10 people were shot and 10 knifed. What did the Washington Post have on the front page? A story and pictures of … Continue reading →
Much of the time I disagree with Kirsten Powers. But she’s become extremely hard-hitting on the subject of media bias, and in that particular cause she’s becoming a real Joan of Arc. Make no mistake, views such as hers are … Continue reading →
“What difference does it make?” has become a joking ironic reference to something that actually is important but that is being treated as unimportant because it reflects poorly on a favored Democrat. Hillary asked the question two and a half … Continue reading →
I put the word “debates” in scare quotes because they aren’t really debates. What they are at this point is an opportunity for the MSM to play “gotcha” and elicit a series of sound bites that will make each Republican … Continue reading →