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Charles C. Johnson is, so far as I can tell, the first and only person ever permanently banned from using Twitter. For those of you not in the know, Johnson has built a career as a journalist on the right, appearing in such ...
Charles C. Johnson is, so far as I can tell, the first and only person ever permanently banned from using Twitter. For those of you not in the know, Johnson has built a career as a journalist on the right, appearing in such ...
Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world—the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had ...
Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "draw Muhammad" controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's like sitting through a sporting event in which ...
The Week's Most Abused, Bemused, and Confused Headlines A UNICORN NAMED CAITLYN World champion Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner revealed to a jubilant and enthralled world last week that he has finally crossed a magical rainbow ...
It got terrific reviews, even the Guardian gave it a good review. It didn't sell at all, I don't know ...
Rolling Stone has had a tough time lately. First, the collapse of the UVA rape story destroyed any semblance of credibility the magazine once enjoyed. Subsequently, Rolling Stone is being sued by the school's associate ...
It was, using Edward De Vere's words, much ado about nothing. The media didn"t think so, called it "Deflategate," and one of America's great sporting heroes, Tom Brady, was pilloried as if he had inflated the ...
We see it every day. Pick a news story, any news story, and it's guaranteed that some journalist will spin it to scream "racism." Look at the past few weeks. David Letterman's farewell? "Unbearably white." The ...
The Week's Sappiest, Crappiest, and Nappiest Headlines BALTIMORE, BLOODY BALTIMORE What's been referred to by the Pansy Press as "unrest" in Baltimore"which makes it sound like insomnia rather than violent ...
Ann Coulter is a withered old hag who uses shock value to sell books. Look at her face. What is she, 40? And her hair? Come on. Are we supposed to take this "woman" seriously? Her latest incarnation of Mein Kampf says ...
Here's another set of polarities to accompany previous concepts such as Fringe versus Core and High/Low versus Middle that are useful in grasping why some things in modern America are automatically assumed to be liberal and ...
Writing "It's been a bad week for white professors" is a lazy, hacky opening. Especially because it cues up, at least in my movie-addled mind, Addison DeWitt's weary counterpunch about "the history of the world ...
The NAACP's sole weapon is fear. The organization gets its way because many businesses and public figures live in fear of being slapped with the label "racist." But what, if anything, frightens the NAACP? No, it's not ...
Only in America can the media take a deadly shootout among white and Hispanic bikers and somehow make it all about black people. And only in America can these same media megaphone-mouths complain about “the media” ...