I had missed this Friedman column from last week where he argues that we should throw rural people under the bus on high-speed internet access, instead focusing our resources on ultra-high-speed internet for the top 5%. There is proper outrage over this column, from Daily...
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For some reason, every couple years a media outlet feels compelled to do a lazy puff piece on walking argument against nepotism Adam Bellow. The latest one is definitive because.
Say hello to PolitiFact! The best part of the Politifact Grand Poohbah's inadvertently perfect parody of high Broderism is that it contains no defense of his credibility-destroying choice on the.
Do Fred Hiatt's fact-checker and FactChuck.org both endorse the ridiculous Politifact Lie[sic] of the Year? Oh, yes. Why does FactChuck think that claims that Ryan's plan would end Medicare are lies? Well: But the plan would have continued the present Medicare system indefinitely for those...
If you're going to assert that perfectly accurate Democratic claims about Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare are false, why not go all the way and make it your lie.
Jennifer Rubin is so hacktacular that Pareene's extensive catalog doesn't even have space for a particularly hilarious bit: she's so in the tank for Mittens that she attacked Newt Gingrich.
One great end of the year tradition is the Salon Hack List. This year's winner----Mark Halperin! He must be so honored. Jennifer Rubin won the well-deserved silver and Bernard Henri-Levy the bronze. The BHL entry was particularly enjoyable: He’s prospered in intellectual circles despite his...
I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase "Keep America American" from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1..
Paul's evisceration of Gene Marks' Gilded Age-esque article telling poor black kids to be rich and white and blaming them if they are not, led me to this legendary Herblock.
I can see why the Times published this Thatcher hagiography--she is a pundit's wet dream. This version of Thatcher has everything Beltway pundits love--Strong leadership! Doing things! Reinforcing the privileges of the rich! The idealized Thatcher is what pundits would get if they could combine...
In one of the best blog posts of the year, Charles Pierce just destroys Jon Meachem's analysis of Newt Gingrich. In part, beginning with quoting Meachem: But by the September-October.
Tonight, Politico hands Paul Ryan its award for Health Care Policymaker of the Year. Because inside the Beltway, actually crafting useful policy that helps people is meaningless. No doubt it's.