Whenever I talk about the future of the newspaper business -- and I'm talking about 20-30 years down the line, not next week -- I get that weird "Childhood's End" vibe. For those of you who haven't read the novel, it's basically about a next step in human evolution. It's not really scary, bad or […]
Welcome Instapundit readers! If you're here to see who the heck this guy is who Glenn Reynolds nominated for Public Editor of the New York Times, take a look around and browse the Media category of posts. A couple of Times-related posts that might be of interest: Here I note newspapers that I wouldn't work […]
The best thing that can be said about the new Democrat-run Congress is the fact that it hasn't done much of anything. The mainstream media has finally noticed. In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage […]
I realize that the headline sets a high bar, but this one will be hard to top. Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous robot, and that didn't keep him from becoming governor. So can "Law & Order" actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson […]
It shouldn't be shocking, but it is. American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday. The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman […]
That doesn't necessarily mean that it is new. It seems every time someone from the mainstream media reads a church newsletter (they don't tend to actually attend the service) and finds a reference to something they didn't know *boom* it's news. Today's illustrative case is this piece by ABC News' Bill Redeker. The evangelical movement […]
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First, what the heck are we doing having a debate in May ... of 2007? This super-early primaries and campaign schedule is simply insane. I'm sure the Washington press corps loves this, but most of America just doesn't care. Chrissy Matthews was pretty darn bad, though this will definitely be good practice for the Republicans […]
This story has been updated Bill Allison over at the Sunlight Foundation makes the case that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is guilty only of the "appearance of" conflict of interest in her dealings on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies sub-committee. (via Instapundit) The most charitable thing one can say about Byrne is […]
There is good news for those of you following the silliness that was a middle-schooler's idiotic move to toss a ham steak in the middle of a table of Somali students. The authorities have decided not to press hate crimes charges. And it only took two weeks to come to their senses -- that's above […]