RedState: More News, Fewer Pleasing Lies

Here's something interesting in a blogpost this morning by RedState's Erick Erickson. In the course of a fulmination against Mitt Romney and the conservative elites who are reluctantly making peace with him, Erickson writes: Herman Cain won’t be the nominee because he can’t win women either. …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday November 8, 2011

The EPA is Not Insane

The Obama White House is many things—flailing as it fishtails from an adult-in-the-room pose to screaming populism; cack-handed, as it both infuriates its base and loses independents; and passive to the point of paralysis, as Chris Christie pointed out in his Reagan Library speech. The Obama …

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Written by Jim DiPeso on Thursday September 29, 2011

Palinistas Invent a New Conspiracy

Jon Kay describes how Conor Friedersdorf inadvertently supplied the raw material for a new Internet conspiracy theory: Conor described in a post on the Atlantic website attending an empty opening of the new Sarah Palin documentary in Orange County, CA. Then: [O]ne William Collier, a …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday July 20, 2011

Fox News Struggles to Replace Glenn Beck

Fox News has a new TV show to fill the 5pm slot that Glenn Beck had. But is "The Five" just lazy filler? How do you replace Glenn Beck's bizarre and rambling hour of television? If you come up with programming on Fox News, you decide that 5pm is a great time to do a conservative version of …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday July 11, 2011

Don't Mourn the End of Murdoch's Tabloid

Rupert Murdoch’s decision to shut down the News of the World is more of a blessing than a tragedy. The general reaction to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s decision to shut down the 168-year-old British weekly, News of the World , is that it’s something of a journalistic tragedy. In my …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Monday July 11, 2011