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Category Archives: Media
May 14, 2013
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The Washington Scandal Frenzy
There are a lot of people in the Obama administration right now who think that T.S. Eliot got it wrong in “The Waste Land.” May, not April, is the cruelest month for an increasingly embattled White House. The trouble began … Continue reading
May 2, 2013
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LA City Council Enters Noble Fight Against Koch Brothers
Good news: The city of Los Angeles has solved all of its urgent problems, including underfunded pensions, poor quality education, budget deficits, debt, gang violence, and drugs. Having dispensed with these important issues, the LA city council turned to the … Continue reading
April 28, 2013
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If Bush Were In The White House, Sandy Would Be An Ongoing Disaster
It’s been six months since Hurricane Sandy ravaged much of the East Coast, but the rebuilding process is far from complete. True, much of the more obvious damage has been fixed and the trains in downtown Manhattan are running again, … Continue reading
April 21, 2013
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Gentry Liberals and Brass Knuckles: The Case of Maureen Dowd

If Maureen Dowd’s evisceration manqué of President Obama’s gun control strategy in the New York Times is any indication, Ms. Dowd is in the wrong line of work. She doesn’t understand American politics. She doesn’t know how votes are gained and lost, she doesn’t know what presidents do or understand what powers they have, and above all she doesn’t understand how politicians think. Continue reading
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Why the Koch Brothers’ Move Into Newspapers is Good for America
In an age of declining revenue and readership for newspapers it is interesting that a battle is shaping up between the left- and right-leaning zillionaires for control of the Tribune Media group of eight newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, the … Continue reading
April 18, 2013
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Gun Control Vote Exposes Clueless MSM
The mainstream media is shocked and bewildered today at how spectacularly each of the President’s gun control proposals flopped in the Senate. After weeks of a full court press by the media and countless speeches by the President, there were more … Continue reading
April 17, 2013
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Where Did the Warming Go?
Climate models keep getting it wrong: the earth’s temperature isn’t rising as quickly as the climate scientists’ best models predicted it would. Many policymakers (ahem…many European policymakers) have set carbon emission targets with the ambition of avoiding a specific temperature increase … Continue reading
April 12, 2013
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Gosnell Case Reveals MSM’s Waning Power
The trial of Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell, which started on March 18, has spawned a number of revelations—revelations for which the adjective “disturbing” hardly does justice. According to the Grand Jury report, Gosnell “regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
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The Economist Backs Off Climate Alarmism
The Economist is finally ditching climate change hysteria. As a new piece in the British newsweekly notes, the world just hasn’t gotten much warmer over the past 15 years. We’ve been pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere at ever-increasing rates, yet temperatures … Continue reading
March 26, 2013
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The Economist Indicts Corn Ethanol
The Economist is adding its voice to the growing chorus of critics of U.S. corn ethanol policy: The 36 billion gallons of ethanol-equivalent biofuels the EPA requires to be produced by 2022 is now almost certainly a lost cause…. Rather than rig things … Continue reading
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Sex Abuse Scandals Rock the BBC
A massive sex scandal has just hit the BBC with the publication of a new book accusing two former Doctor Who producers of using their power to take advantage of underage fans throughout the 1980s. The Daily Mail reports: The next year, … Continue reading
March 19, 2013
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British Speech Nannies and the Respectable Tendency
The British media is abuzz this week over the creation of a new government-run press regulator. The NYT reports that the new code invests the regulator with the authority to “order prominent corrections in publications that breach standards,” a power now … Continue reading
March 1, 2013
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Maverick Chinese Town’s Revolutionary Dream Fades Away
The city of Wukan, in southeast China, burst into rebellion last year, only to see its high hopes fade away. Villagers in Wukan were furious with the local Communist Party leaders, who were selling off large parcels of communal land to developers and pocketing the … Continue reading
February 24, 2013
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Tom Friedman Gets Mexico Right
The ongoing success story in Mexico is one of the most important that the American press has missed in the last few years. We keep seeing Mexico as nothing but trouble—drug cartels, illegal immigration—when in fact a new reality is … Continue reading
February 14, 2013
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Taking the Time out of Time Warner
Nobody wants Time magazine. That’s what seems to be emerging from talks between the magazine’s current publisher Time Warner and Meredith, an Iowa-based publisher of magazines aimed mostly at women in the Midwest. The money losing newsweekly used to be … Continue reading





