Now that the last significant obstacle to Obamacare repeal is finally packing his bags and preparing to vacate the White House, the defenders of the law are desperately casting about for some talking point that will convince the public that…
Washington Over the weekend some pathetic wretch — obviously a casualty of the November 8 election — writing under the pen name Paul Farhi, filed a column in the Washington Post lamenting that after an extensive search of the newspapers…
If you are among the few Americans who still take the legacy media seriously, you probably believe that repealing Obamacare will result in a cataclysm comparable to that which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Since Donald Trump won the…
During the summer of the 2016 campaign, the “public editor” for the New York Times, Liz Spayd, criticized the paper’s transparently unbalanced coverage. Even though the criticism was ventured hesitantly, it still rankled reporters. “Mostly I was met with a…
The big “fake news” stories of 2016 were the polls. Most showed Donald Trump losing big in November, thus cable news ran countless renditions of the many ways Trump could not possibly win the necessary Electoral College vote. Getting the…
The cool clique inevitably reveals itself as the loser league. In Napoleon Dynamite, this phenomenon plays out during the school-auditorium-dance-routine scene, when cool kid Don delivers a patronizing “pfft,” as his classmates go crazy over the title character’s sweet moves….
Like a seizure that leads to the discovery of a brain tumor, the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may finally have revealed to Western readers the cancer that has grown in our midst: a highly ideological press that, to…
Now that Tom Price is officially the nominee to be the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a mild panic has broken out among Democrats and their media cohorts. Since Price has been one of the…
In his fine piece on the coming Borking of Jeff Sessions in this a.m.’s TAS, George Neumayr cites the febrile New York Times editorial which rehashes all the baseless charges of racism against Sessions. The editorial contains the usual left phantasms and amounts…
Debra Saunders is off this week. The following column is by Bernard Goldberg. I’m going to take a wild guess and say that nobody in what passes for the mainstream media saw the tsunami coming, the wave of discontent that…