Bad, but hardly surprising: The Kremlin controls much of the Russian media, and Putin occasionally meets with friendly groups of senior journalists to answer questions and guide news coverage.... The message to the 30 or so media executives at the gathering was clear: With Russia occupying...
These are worth another look in light of the week's events.
In case you haven't been reading enough about Sarah Palin, I have another piece up at the Minnesota Independent. Some people like it. Others, not so much:Exhibit A:Professor of History...with.
This is such an interesting article;I don't know quite what to think of it. The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed...
24 hours ago one of McCain's chief economic advisers announced that talk of serious economic trouble was all the fault of Barack Obama frightening everybody for crass political gain. This.
She's been on a roll lately, but IB's take on the new Richard Cohen column is one of her better lines:He's kinda like a kid who, upon discovering that there.
Increasingly, that seems to be the choice. The weird insistence on sticking to the obviously false claim about saying "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere is beginning to look like a pattern. Tonight at a fundraiser in Ohio, she re-told an already debunked...
The fairy tale continues:"The important thing is she's vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects — far, far in excess of her predecessor and she's given money back.
Cathy Young has an attempted feminist defense of Sarah Palin (endorsed, natch, by Ann Althouse.) The fundamental problem with the argument is that there's no inherent value to having lots of people call themselves feminists, per se. The point is to get people to endorse feminist...
What's amazing about this is that I figured that McEvenWorse and Palin would at some point permanently change the "Bridge to Nowhere" howler to some technically accurate but grossly misleading.
Ned Yost has been fired, with his team tied for the NL wild card spot and 13 days left in the season. Can't think of any precedent for something like.