July 11, 2008
February 24, 2008
All politics is domestic
MSM campaign coverage doesn't pay enough attention to foreign policy. Those stories on how much crappy food they have to eat in Iowa don't just write themselves.
February 03, 2008
July 14, 2007
Zogby, Reynolds, and political bias in academia
David Horowitz commissions a fake poll from Zogby. Glenn Reynolds swallows it hook, line, and sinker.
April 08, 2007
Let's have some hearings
Pelosi told Bush about her trip to Damascus the day before she left, and Bush had no objection.
January 08, 2007
"Enemy of the State"?!
That's what Sean Hannity called ... Sean Penn? And no, he didn't seem to be kidding. Better yet, proclaiming an "Enemy of the State" each week is going to be a regular feature on the show.
June 26, 2006
What is the Blogosphere? Mr. Kos--meet Mr. Greeley
In the wake of Yearly Kos, Blogistan is getting a lot of very sophomoric attention from the MSM. The overall winner, is TNR's Lee Siegel, who has commented that the blogosphere is "hard fascism with a Microsoft face" (whatever that means). Siegel's work has received the derision it deserves, and so too has David Brooks. Ironically, though, there is a...
May 03, 2006
Stamps
The Postal Service has come up with the interesting idea of selling a defined service instead of a piece of pseudo-money. The "forever stamp" will be good for a first class letter indefinitely, so when rates go up, you won't have to find and affix an extra two- or three-cent stamp. [Please note that I am not making the obvious...
April 12, 2006
Iran: so far away
Latest substance on Iran: no nukes for a long time. Latest politics: Just say "No." And repeat. And repeat.
March 08, 2006
TPM Muckraker: The Blogosphere Gets a Boss—And About Time
TPM muckraker is a nonprofit, email-tip-based wonder, likely to become among the best the blogosphere has to offer. It's also an old-fashioned organization with a boss—a sign that even in cyberspace, anarchy only takes one so far.
February 17, 2006
Can the Republicans Defend America?
In the New York Times today, Wellesley professor Kelly Greenhill notes something that should be repeated ad nauseam by every Democrat, in every election, at every opportunity. She writes: DESPITE claims to the contrary by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Army is facing a manpower crisis. The evidence can be found in two separate reports released last month — one...
January 12, 2006
Why news should cost. A lot.
The demand to get reporting for free is nothing new. And it's still stupid.
