Our Media Occupies the Moral Playground
President Trump on Sunday accused the Wall Street Journal of misquoting him invidiously in an interview published last Thursday. The newspaper attributed the following phrase […]
Big Media
This is CNN . . . in 1945
What if something like CNN and modern communications were around in early 1945? What if the rules of presidential news coverage were then as they […]
Michael Wolff Did Trump a Big Favor
You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage, but President Trump is emerging from the furor over Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” as the winner. […]
The View of the Blinkered
Sites like Vox, the Daily Beast, and the Weekly Standard have long praised the dossiers of Robert Mueller’s legal investigative team. The essays prove mostly […]
Goodbye, America?
On Sunday, my wife and I went for a walk in a park located in an affluent area near where we live. We were struck […]
Deep Freeze Ends a Dreadful 2017 for Climate Activists
It’s been a bad year for global warming propagandists, but fear not: Here comes a polar vortex to make it worse for them. The unrelenting […]
The Tragic Case of Marshall Mathers
Imagine still hanging around parking lots—wearing a hoodie—in your mid-40s. Such is the tragedy of Marshall Mathers’ (a.k.a., Eminem) rebirth from pitchfork picador to corporate […]
‘Paris is the Capital of France. Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel’
London, Paris, Rome—cities that are familiar to most Americans. And even if you can’t find them on the map, you know that it only takes […]
No, the Trump Administration Didn’t ‘Ban’ 7 Words at the CDC
Heads exploded over the weekend in response to a Washington Post article that claimed the Centers for Disease Control would “ban” seven words in all […]
Lessons in Swamplarking: The Scurrilous Art of Leaking
Last week, I discussed the swamplarkers, those D.C. denizens who sift through the sands of time and sin looking for that golden nugget of “gotcha” […]
Trump Hastens Media Meltdown
Few things are better than watching the media weep in despair as President Trump continues to deliver on his promises. One of those things, however, […]
What’s At Stake in Alabama
Are we “really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice” or are we “forever destined to depend for [our] political constitutions […]
Fake Truth
The most effective way for the media to have refuted Donald Trump’s 24/7 accusations of “fake news” would have been to publish disinterested, factually based […]
The Swamplarkers’ Dirt Purge
Reveling in my freedom in our Age of Communications Revolution, I found myself rummaging through the bowels of YouTube (best not to say for what). […]
Good Taste Returns to the White House this Christmas
Though the hate-filled press would like you to think otherwise, this Christmas we have witnessed a return to a classic sense of style at the […]
Pence-Weinstein Phenomenon Exposes Contradictions of Feminism
Time has bestowed its “Person of the Year Award” to “the silence breakers”—those who, according to USA Today, “triggered a #MeToo national outcry over sexual […]
Washington Post: Where Conservatism Dies in Bitterness
The Washington Post might want to roll out a new motto in 2018. Instead of “Democracy Dies in Darkness” perhaps the paper should try, “Conservatism […]
The News from Lake HeBeGone
He might have been hauled out into the light by the media like a surprised, blinking raccoon tugged by the tail out of a trashcan. […]
Bumperstocky
Twas quarter-past Hysteric, and The media did sound alarms; All froozy were the Democrats, Yarping of firearms. “Beware, my son, the Bumperstock; The muzzle-loading barrel […]
Sarah Sanders is Above the Shame Game
Mika is mad. Mika Brzezinski, otherwise known as the future Mrs. Joe Scarborough, went ballistic Tuesday on her MSNBC morning show over comments by White […]