How Franklin Foer Fired Timothy Noah
First, some idiot kid name Olga asks Nate Thayer to write for free. Then Matthew Yglesias buys himself a million-dollar D.C. townhouse. Now, an award-winning liberal journalist gets the ax: On Thursday, New Republic columnist Timothy Noah received an email from editor Frank Foer asking him to meet at 2:30 pm on Friday. During the meeting, […]
The 1% Progressive Bloggers Club and the Bourgeois Dialectic of Comrade Yglesias
Friend of the proletariat Matthew Yglesias (Photo: Matt Roth) The news that left-wing blogger employee of Slate magazine Matthew Yglesias has purchased a $1.2-million townhouse in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood has produced much chortling. Yglesias, after all, mocked property rights as the “myth of ownership.” Andy at AOSHQ says: So, party at Matty’s this weekend? I mean, […]
The Other War on Women, or: It’s Not Harassment When Democrats Do It
He “pulled a weiner”: A state representative in Massachussetts is being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a government computer. The investigation is ongoing and the committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one behind the […]
This Will Not End Well for the Donald
So, the Vulgar King of Obnoxiousness decided to throw down on Twitter with Michelle Malkin, and perhaps this reminder is unnecessary: Trump has a rather long history of hostility toward conservatives like Malkin, a New York Times bestselling author and New Media entrepreneur who created the popular Hot Air political blog as well as the […]
Slouching Toward Cougartown
From fame to shame: NFL cheerleader (left) in her police mug shot (right) Jeff Gurner at Viral Read reports the disturbing story of the woman who was arrested for making advances on a 12-year-old boy: Elizabeth Leigh Garner, a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader, was indicted last week on charges of aggravated sexual battery and solicitation […]
Narcissism and the Self-Esteem Cult
Amelia Hamilton has some interesting reflections on the rampant gooey egalitarianism that inspires Generation Whiner: [I]n St. Mary’s County, Maryland . . . birthday party invitations have been banned from all schools. “If there are 20 individuals in the class and someone brings in seven birthday invitations, it was creating an academic disruption,” Hall said. “People […]
CNN: The Godbag Christofascist Network
In case you don’t know who Melissa McEwan is, this 2007 headline by Mary Katharine Ham is an apt summary: Vote for Edwards, Godbag Christofascists! McEwan and her feminist comrade Amanda Marcotte were hired to blog for the Democratic presidential primary campaign of John Edwards in what was, evidently, a bid to chip away at Hillary Clinton’s […]
VIDEO: Dana Loesch on Sequestration
Dana Loesch was a guest on Sean Hannity’s show last night, engaging in the dangerous practice of telling the truth about Obama: “The House was discussing a proposal to give the Presidet the power of the purse, so to speak, and the he could decide where he wanted to cut, if he really did want […]
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