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WaPo Makes an Excellent Decision: Jennifer Rubin Hired as Blogger

This is very encouraging news indeed, and I think all leading conservatives will share the view expressed by Ed Driscoll: “The WaPo Finally Gets One Right.” My favorite piece by Jennifer Rubin was a column she wrote for Pajamas Media in February 2009. You will recall that, at that time, many Republicans were still talking […]

Strategy Lesson: State Parties Matter

For the benefit of Alex Pareene — who strangely seems to believe that campaigns are of secondary importance to who wins elections — let me unravel a bit of strategy. When I visited Massachusetts in early October, there was clearly a grassroots “enthusiasm gap” favoring Republicans. Da Tech Guy kept saying he had that Scott Brown […]

Flashback: Charlie Sheen Called Ex-Wife Denise Richards ‘F***ing N****r’

One of the strangest things about porn star Capri Anderson’s account of Charlie Sheen’s hotel-room meltdown was her assertion that Sheen “started yelling racial slurs.” Anderson (a/k/a Christina Walsh) is Irish-American, so what “slurs” was Sheen shouting? Mick? Evidently, however, Sheen has a habit of shouting the n-word at women when he’s angry, as was the case […]

Sarah Palin’s New Show Less Popular Than ‘Spongebob Squarepants’?

Yes, believe it or not Spongebob is the cable ratings king: [F]or the week of Nov. 8 the top rated non-sports show was Dancing with the Stars with nearly 20 million viewers. Yet the top rated non-sports cable show was Nick@Nite’s Spongebob Squarepants with just a bit over six million viewers. Cable simply doesn’t come […]

Holy Crap! North Korean Opens Artillery Bombardment on South Korean Island

This is kind of scary: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries’ disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were wounded and three civilians were injured, said Kiyheon Kwon, […]

Debt Causes Collapse of Irish Government

Something here I can’t quite put my finger on: The Irish government faced imminent collapse on Monday, only a day after it signed off on a $100 billion bailout, setting the stage for a new election early next year and injecting the threat of political instability into a European financial crisis that already has markets […]

Alex Pareene: Expert on Hackdom

Takes one to know one: These are the most predictable, banal, intellectually dishonest and all-around hacky newspaper columnists, cable news shouting heads and political opinion-mongers working today. . . . We cut the list down to 30 people whose continued employment most baffles us, and then we ranked them in order of shamelessness. When I […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.23.10

TOP NEWS 300 Killed In Stampede At Cambodian Water Festival Worst tragedy since the Khmer Rouge, says Cambodian PM UK To Join EU, IMF In Propping Up Irish Banks No change in Irish corporation tax sought Gas Levels In NZ Mine Too High For Rescuers To Enter Coal may also be burning in the mine […]

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