Speaking truth to power? Holding people accountable? The Fourth Estate? Watchdogs? Bolshevik Storytelling is what that is. The overwhelming majority of American journalists today are pussies who take pride in the fact that they’re somehow better than their readers and think they’re displaying bravery when they’re merely enforcing a liberal orthodoxy. The latest evidence is […]
Over my years in newspapers I made a note of what it took people to get fired because far too often incompetence wasn’t one of them. What did get people fired? Discussing a potential job with a competing paper at the office within earshot of your supervisor. Calling in “sick” and then appearing at a […]
Politifact likes to pat itself on the back for being non-partisan. It’s a crock. They’re little different than any major newspaper newsroom – they’re overwhelmingly liberal. James Taranto over at The Wall Street Journal points out a little bit of hypocrisy. "It's unfair to call the DeKalb school board corrupt. School employees, not board members, […]
First, Obama’s put us in deep trouble. If that doesn’t scare the children on Halloween, nothing will. Second, we have a guy who “forgot” to pay a $75 annual fire prevention fee and had his home burn to the ground after firefighters from a neighboring jurisdiction refused to put it out. I feel sorry for […]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Bay Area comes in 2nd and 3rd in a “smartest place in the country” list. The list is based upon the preponderance of college degrees in a particular metro area. I’ve know lots of college graduates who shouldn’t be allowed to have scissors – the belief that a […]
You can pick any two when it comes to The New York Times’ Kate Zernike who’s been tasked with covering the Tea Party movement and conservatives in general – a task the Times would probably be handing to an anthropologist than one of their staff writers. In a Friday article, Zernike describes the rule of […]
You may remember the four missionaries that were arrested earlier this year outside a Dearborn, Mich., Arab festival in June. Today they were acquitted of “breach of peace.” Or, as the bizarre Detroit Free Press characterized it: “inciting a crowd.” Here’s the video again, can anyone tell me where the crowd is that they are […]
Dan Balz has an amazing article in today’s Washington Post. One of the puzzling questions about Barack Obama's presidency is how the post-partisan candidate of 2008 became the polarizing chief executive of 2010. The answer may be surprising. He was far more polarizing from the start than many recognized. His choices in office and his […]
Via Ramesh Ponnuru, from The New York Times editorial page: “But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.” It’s a good thing lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize moronic editorial writers, we’d have to drastically expand federal prisons.
Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens died in a plane crash Monday afternoon. I was never a big fan of Stevens, his penchant for pork represented the worst of the Republican Party. Stevens also held the distinction of being the only senator I ever pissed off in my previous life as a reporter. An article I […]