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Category Archives: News

Best Wishes to Chelsea and what’s-his-name

02-Aug-10

But even if the Clintons were misers, this is their money. They only have one child; presuming Chelsea never divorces and remarries, this is it for them. Can you blame them for pulling out all the stops?

Interesting site with Republican-oriented news

25-Jul-10

RepublicanDaily.info seems to be a fairly straight-up site that aggregates news within the Republican political sphere. Definitely worth a click if that interests you.

He might be starting to get it

22-Jul-10

Then again, a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. Here is Sullivan’s rather bloodless post acknowledging that Journolist critics might have a point.

Is Ezra Klein implying that Gautham Nagesh was the leaker?

21-Jul-10

Here’s what Ezra Klein wrote today: In another wrinkle they haven’t mentioned, Journolist included Gautham Nagesh, a Daily Caller reporter (he’s since moved to The Hill). He leaned conservative, and frequently disagreed with other members of the list. It also included almost 400-some other people. If I had thought there was some deep and dark [...]

Daily Caller puts itself on the map

21-Jul-10

Tucker Carlson’s online mag The Daily Caller has just put itself on the American journalistic map with its serialization of the JournoList scandal. This kind of news will put the popularity of the site on afterburners, just the way the Monical Lewinsky scandal made Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report a household name. It’s also catalyzing a long-needed [...]

Exposed: Journalists across media actively engage in message coordination to prop liberal candidates and causes

20-Jul-10

Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller expands the the JournoList scandal with a new article by Jonathan Strong, showing how the formerly-secret internet listserv was used to coordinate a strategy to mute criticism of Rev. Jeramiah Wright during Obama’s campaign. The current mainstream media can still function with a tarnished reputation. But they leave a vacuum that legitimate, [...]

American attitudes

01-Jul-10

From the Christian Science Monitor: Thirty-two percent of adults in the labor force have been unemployed for some period during the recession. Among people who have jobs, 28 percent have had hours reduced, 23 percent have seen pay cuts, and 11 percent say they’ve been forced to switch to part-time rather than full-time work. A [...]

Andrew Breitbart plunks down $100k for JournoList archives

29-Jun-10

After seeing if I could drum up interest yesterday in buying the infamous JournoList archives for the benefit of my second favorite blogger, Andrew Breitbart takes up the challenge and offers $100,000 for them. Awesome, Andrew! I’m very happy about this development. Go get ‘em!

Journolist: Let’s buy Ann Althouse the archives!

28-Jun-10

Ann Althouse, the popular blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor, wants to do an academic study of the Journolist phenomenon.  To do this, she needs a complete archive of the emails that were served on that listserv. Considering that the listserv had, by some accounts, as many as 400 participants, there must be at [...]

“An Energy-Independent Future”

19-Jun-10

Jon Stewart & Company nail it: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c An Energy-Independent Future www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party