Walter Russel Mead, in his usual long-but-worth-your-time style, explains the obvious: At bottom press bias is the consequence of honest efforts to report the real news by sincere and thoughtful people. There is a lot going on in our busy world these days, and every reporter and every editor has be selective. They have to… Read More Why Bias is Inevitable
Via The Anchoress, the Parodists of Record wrap a real story in a fake story, causing many to question their true commitment to progressivism: The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every… Read More The Onion Reveals its Raaaaacism
…now that this is out, I assume that everyone who made fun of Romney for being a (*gasp*) Rich Guy What Does Not Care About Teh Poor will now admit that they were wrong, or at least, mistaken? Also, that everyone who took to Teh Intertubes posting various pics of Romney as these: …. will now… Read More So Now That We Know That Mitt Romney Has Paid Every Cent He Owed in Taxes, and Gave 30% of His Income to Charity….
Let us all stomp, like Stacy McCain, like Andy at Ace, upon the socialist fallacy of the day: @mattyglesias The concept of “redistribution” falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state.#mythofownership I assume this to be a commonplace on the Left: that property cannot exist absent the state,… Read More Matt Yglesias Never Watched The Wire
Ace’s Twitter beatdown of Will Saletan is noteworthy for a couple of reasons: It’s a refreshing refutation of the notion that the aesthetic quality of the Muslim troll film is at all relevant. Saletan doesn’t really fight back very hard. I mean, he offers up a few tired equivocations. Poor Salman Rushdie is invoked. But by… Read More Freedom of Speech and Trembling Honkies
First, Did the Libyan Mob that Killed Our Ambassador Sodomize him first? Second, Was there an IED attack on our Libyan Embassy months ago, to which the response by our administration was “Enh…”? Third, Did our Egyptian Ambassador disarm the Embassy’s Marine guards?
Face in the Blue has a most excellent question of great historical and political import: In a Mass Knife Fight to the Death Between Every American President, Who Would Win and Why? Which brought to my mind the bit of campaign fluff about whether Barak Obama is the kind of guy the average American would enjoy… Read More So Which President, Living or Dead, Would You Like to Drink With?
Yesterday I said five, ten, twenty years. But terrorists are not so lazy as that. Now we have a dead ambassador and two trashed embassies, and the Atlantic has called for immediate discussion. On the short-term politics, one reason why people who have seen previous campaigns always insert, “Anything could happen, but…” when giving forecasts… Read More The Rage That Dare Not Speak its Name
Back in college, a wise professor told me that foreign policy debates in America are about the next election. This assertion, bluntly proven true over the past eleven years, rather dissuades me from having anything to say to mark the anniversary. All the old feelings return, the old anger, the old sadness, the old… Read More All Debates About Foreign Affairs are Bunk, and None of This is Over.
…and it’s good to see him whup the living crap out of Pittsburgh, but I’d like to point out that the Vikings also won. And how did they win? Petersen had 84 yards and 2 TD’s, for thing. Chris Ponder was solid, 20 for 27 and 270 yards passing, no picks, for another. But more… Read More I Know Everyone’s All Excited About Peyton Manning….
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