Where did the time go? OK, Monica hasn’t run up against the big Five O yet, but when she does, well, I think it might go something like this: “Linda, it’s me.” “What a surprise.” “I deserve that.” “You certainly do. Don’t you have a mother? Not to mention an attorney.” “Linda, sarcasm I don’t…
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Robin Wright’s Magic Disappearing Video, Robin Wright’s Magic Disappearing Story
Readers of the Washington Post were greeted with the following front page story on April 24 by Post reporter Robin Wright: N. Koreans Taped At Syrian ReactorVideo Played a Role in Israeli RaidA video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping…
Il Whopper di tutti Whoppers
Having complimented the Washington Post earlier today on one its editorials, it’s time to go back on the attack, a task made all too easy by today’s effusion, “Good Sense on Iraq: At last, a Bush administration defense secretary listens to his commanders.” Like everyone else defending the War in Iraq, the Post is busily…
Debunking Myths or Creating Them?
The Washington Post has plenty of editorial space available, and it’s hardly unreasonable for the editors to offer its pages to “competing views.” But when offering space to outside opinion, one might expect, as a courtesy to its subscribers, that the Post would require these contributors to state their case honestly—opinion yes, propaganda no. But…
That’s a Trend?
Are times tough all over? Michael A. Fletcher and the Washington Post would have you think so. As Mike tells it “The problem [long-term unemployment] is ensnaring a broader swath of workers than before. Once concentrated among manufacturing workers and those with little work history, education or skills, long-term unemployment is growing most rapidly among…
Bank Shot
In its January 11 editorial, “Ron Paul’s Appeal,” the Washington Post gives the Texas Republican a deserved cuffing for his obviously bigoted, segregationist past and his other follies, including his suspicions regarding a “NAFTA superhighway,” presumably intended to put every good old boy in Texas out of work. After having established the fact that Mr….
Adam Rubenstein and the Times: Yes, but …
Undeservedly ousted conservative NYT editor Adam Rubenstein is deservedly getting plenty of ink n’ pixels with his tale of undeserved trauma, I Was a Heretic at The New York Times, over at the Atlantic, recounting, among other things, how he received, well, a “woke up” call on his very first day, in the course of…
Is the New York Times very naïve, very cynical, or very stupid? Discuss amongst yourselves.
It’s tempting to say “it’s a combination of all three,” but, well, that wouldn’t make any sense. Here’s the deal: Eric Lipton writes in today’s Times Hours after the news broke on Wednesday that the United States had picked up worrisome intelligence about Russia’s capacity to strike American satellites, the Pentagon sent a missile-tracking system…
Donald Trump is probably not as utterly bad as you probably think he is, a fatuous Andrew Sullivan says, fatuously.
Notice that I said “a fatuous Andrew Sullivan” rather than “the fatuous Andrew Sullivan”, because I think that, at times, Andy can be pretty gosh darn cogent—when, it seems, the stars are properly aligned—but only then, I would say, for it appears that when the heavens are seriously out of whack, as they must have…
Ramesh Ponnuru writes a good column! It’s so good, it’s smarter than he is!
Seriously! Yeah, I know I’ve said a lot of mean things about Ramesh in the past—because, well, not to toot my own horn or anything, but they don’t call me “Mr. Truth” for nothing—but recently he wrote a column, Not even the Supreme Court can make Congress do its job, which, I’m pretty sure, is…