Archive for May, 2009
Nancy Pulls Off the Lying Hat Trick
How many lies can Nancy Pelosi tell in a week? I don’t know, but it looks like she’s going for an all-time record. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San [...]
Are Blogs Bringing Back Yellow Journalism?
Suzanna Logan thinks the blogosphere is producing the sort of yellow journalism people really want to see. In fact, I think the willingness of bloggers to jazz up journalism is precisely why more folks are turning to them for their news fix. They have tapped into the irresistible appeal that cut-and-dried, faux-objective news stories just [...]
Everyone’s a Criminal, Except the Criminals.
This is why you don’t hire a politician without an ounce of law enforcement experience to handle homeland security: “One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feeling among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also [...]
Comedy is Supposed to Be Funny, Isn’t It?
Is there something about the essential nature of left-wing “comedy” that it must be partisan and have only a thin coating of civility? Once upon a time, I considered Lewis Black one of the three funniest comedians I’d ever heard. His routine about an overheard conversation at IHOP is hilarious. That was before George Bush [...]
That’s What You Said