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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

Is "The Help" Sanitizing Segregation?

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Written by Hollywood Insider on Thursday August 11, 2011

Who Said August is a Slow News Month?

Oslo bombed. The Euro in crisis. Washington DC consumed by debt crisis - all as we head into the so-called dog days of summer, the alleged slowest news week of the year. When they roll me out from the nursing home to offer advice to aspiring young journalists, I’ll concentrate all my accumulated …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday July 23, 2011

Why Watch Cable?

As a sometime talking head on CNN, I'm arguing against interest here - but Friday was a day that fully drove home the uselessness of cable news. All day long, cable breathlessly reported the Tiger Woods story, while managing totally to ignore what had actually occurred. As a sometime talking head …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday November 28, 2009