The Other McCain

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

My Favorite Line by Shakespeare

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Dick the Butcher, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 OK, maybe not all the lawyers. My son-in-law will be attending law school this fall and hasn’t done anything to deserve killing. Yet. Also, my son-in-law is a Christian, and thus remembers my […]

Dave Weigel Calls Himself ‘Progressive’? (Also: Dibs on ‘Arianna Huffington Nude’)

Did ex-libertarian David Weigel just say what it looks like he said here? Imagine a future in which AOL, the online portal for millions of people, farms out its news content to the Huffington Post. Imagine a future in which Yahoo!, the online portal for millions of similar people, hires the deputy publisher of Talking […]

Amity Shlaes for Senate?

Adam Brickley has an interesting suggestion for New York Republicans: The GOP needs a high profile opponent who will force Gillibrand to explain herself – and given her record we don’t think she can. The only question is who can do this while raising the money to compete in expensive New York Our suggestion is […]

‘Rhymes-With-Shmoogle’

Pejman Yousefzadeh disassembles Conor Friedersdorf with admirable gusto, beginning, “I really have things I would prefer doing this evening instead of engaging in yet another blogfight with someone at the Atlantic, but . . .” Yousefzadeh eviscerates Friedersdorf for defending anti-Israel crank Philip Giraldi and you’ve really got to read the whole thing, which includes […]

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Matt Lewis Won’t Work for Arianna Huffington; Soon He’ll Be Working for Tucker Carlson

He just gave his two weeks’ notice at AOL’s Politics Daily, saying “AOL has vastly underestimated the public perception . . . that Huffington is a far-left liberal,” and adding: I am incredibly blessed to be joining a terrific organization in The Daily Caller. I look forward to learning from its founder and editor in chief, […]

Shocked! Shocked!

A psychology professor discovers only three conservatives in an audience of a thousand of his academic peers, a fact that surprises no one who knows anything about academia, and particularly not Professor William Jacobson.

HuffPo/AOL Deal: On Second Thought … Hell, No, It Still Doesn’t Make Any Sense

After this morning’s stunning news that AOL had agreed to pay more than $300 million to buy the Huffington Post, I tried to find some argument to justify the deal. Honest, I did. I even read Felix Salmon’s analysis at Reuters: The $315 million that AOL is paying for the Huffington Post is roughly 3X […]

AOL Pays $315 Million for HuffPo

Curiouser and curiouser: The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants. The two companies completed the […]

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