The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘Irrational Anti-Science Lunatics . . .’

‘. . . like Tim Blair.’ Can you guess who said that about Australia’s most popular blogger? Maybe you need some clues: “[T]he Husky Blogger told me it’s always tea-bagging, racist, homophobic, right-wing extremists who commit such acts.” “Classless, clueless, ranting douchebag . . .” Inspiration for “Race Detective” comics. “[N]othing will dismantle a decent […]

‘Decent and Dignified Journalism’

New York Times poster, 1896: That was before they hired David Brooks, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. Just sayin’ . . .

Sandra Bullock: Right-Wing Extremist?

The Oscar-winner for Best Actress is, after all, a Southerner — her father is from Alabama and she attended Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia — and her Academy Award was based on the true story of a football player at Briarcrest Christian Academy in Memphis, who subsequently signed a scholarship at Ole Miss to […]

In Case You Missed the Oscars

Thanks to Michael Tunison at the New Ledger for this: It was for many years my duty, as Sunday night editor on the national desk at the Washington Times, to compile and update our “from combined dispatches” stories about the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys — through three editions. I don’t miss that at all. Awards […]

Another ‘Anti-Government Right Wing Extremist of the Ron Paulian Persuasion’

No, not Pentagon shooter Patrick Bedell — as described by Charles Johnson — I’m talking about that other 9/11 Truther: Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a “big lie” intended to pave the way for the invasion of a war-torn nation, […]

Krauthammer for President?

Bloggers aren’t supposed to call attention to their advertisements (i.e., gaming the click-throughs) but the AdSense rotation just featured an ad for a product clever enough to be legitimately newsworthy:  OK, who wants to organize the “Draft Krauthammer Committee”? Even those who don’t agree with Krauthammer must admit he crafts sentences with brutal conciseness: Late last year, Democrats were marveling at how […]

All the News That’s Fit to Steal

The New York Times admits to acting as a “fence” for a word thief: Zachery Kouwe, a Times business reporter for a little over a year, resigned last month after he was accused of plagiarizing from The Wall Street Journal. . . . Plagiarism is a mortal journalistic sin, and Kouwe’s departure was inevitable from […]

Understatement of the Day

McConnell: RNC Fundraising Presentation ‘Not Helpful’

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