I used to respect the Washington Post in a way that I couldn’t — and still can’t — respect the New York Times, arguably the most overrated newspaper in history. True, the Post has supported some of the dumbest presidents in…
“Pennsylvania is on fire,” opines George Will in his Washington Post column on the Pennsylvania election for governor. “Since 1915, the Red Ash colliery has been burning beneath the hills near Wilkes-Barre, and dozens of other fires smolder in abandoned coal…
In President Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, he wrote that the late Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) gave him the best advice he ever received: “Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know…
Most of my political friends are proud to tell me that they do not read the Washington Post any longer, ever since its final conversion to aggressive woke journalism. This is a shame since conservatives are in effect cutting themselves off…
On Wednesday, Elisabeth Zerofsky of the New York Times Magazine published a lengthy essay titled “How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right.” Zerofsky’s piece was well-researched, honest, and measured, but the same cannot necessarily be…
In November 2021, the media was realizing that perhaps the Biden presidency was not something it could endorse at every turn with unvarnished praise. Inflation had hit 6.2 percent, supply-chain headaches leading up to the holidays were top of mind,…
The Pulitzer board diminished the worth of its prize by refusing on Monday to rescind awards given to the New York Times and the Washington Post for reporting a hoax as true. “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that…
Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, mainstream media outlets have collectively pushed the narrative that women — or “people,” as these outlets term women — will be surveilled by law enforcement officials who will use period-tracking apps, location trackers,…
It was the best of times in Washington, D.C. Two news incidents last week brought back the memory of their twin settings, both special in my life, against the progressive rot that now corrupts them, the city, and the whole…
