Doug Liman: Judith Miller Got it Wrong… Again
Judith Miller demonstrated in her recent Wall Street Journal story about my film, Fair Game, the same cavalier attitude towards the facts that led to her departure from the New York Times in disgrace.
The whining rich
Todd Henderson’s whine about how he’s only scraping by on $450,000 a year in his million-dollar Chicago house is causing quite a stir in the blogosphere. (Tyler Cowen says that “this number…
Arianna Huffington: Third World America: Chronicling the Assault on America’s Middle Class…and the Solutions
“The latest job numbers are out — and they’re not good.” That’s a phrase we’ve heard a lot lately — and will likely continue to hear for the foreseeable future.…
Fremont, Nebraska To Vote On Illegal Immigration Measure
FREMONT, Neb. — Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont will decide Monday whether…
Ari Melber: Free Elana Kagan!
Elana Kagan’s first “interview” as a Supreme Court nominee quickly hit some turbulence. Kagan sat down with Arun Chaudhary, an Obama administration staffer, for a White House video presenting Kagan “in her own words.” Like a…
No-Viagra-For-Sex-Offenders Among Senate GOP Health Amendments
By Frank James Senate Republicans have alerted anyone who will listen that they intend to try and gum up the works to slow their Democratic colleagues’ efforts to pass the…
Pakistan Civil War News Updates — March 22, 2010
In Pakistan’s Swat, Taliban Instill Fear After Defeat — Reuters (Reuters) – Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears…
Violent Video Game Ban Passes In Switzerland
Government preparing to outline the specifics of new legislation that will illegalise violent games Just a month after the proposals were first outlined in full, the Swiss National Council has…
Rabbi David Wolpe: ‘Heaven’: Does Newsweek’s Lisa Miller’s Book Make The Concept Any Less Trite?
Mark Twain quipped that people assume heaven will be green fields and harp music – an eternity of activities no one would enjoy for five minutes while still alive. Here…
Jack Myers: Kantar 2009 Media Spending Compared to Myers 2009 Spending Data
Kantar Media last week released its ad spending data for the full year 2009, reporting a decline in year-to-year spending of 12.3% and total ad spending of $125.3 billion. Since…