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Sunday, July 29th, 2012Why the Upper East Side of Manhattan, perhaps the wealthiest neighborhood in the United States, is getting a massive trash dump in its backyard. More in my Sunday column.
You Can’t Make Sense of the Aurora Massacre
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012Bonus edition of my Sunday column: a few thoughts on the movie-theater massacre in Colorado. There’s no making sense of the senseless, and there’s no understanding a madman (or preventing future lunacy).
Terrible News
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Andrew Breitbart has died at 43. I’m stunned and saddened.
UPDATE: Warm words from his friend Greg Gutfeld. Well put, Greg.
I knew Andrew only slightly; the last time I saw him was at CPAC last year, when I went up to say hello but he was being mobbed by well-wishers and loving every second of [...]
OWS: Forward, March!
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Hilarious Dana Loesch post on the forthcoming “Epic March” from Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan to Washington, D.C. I love a good epic, especially the David Lean ones, but methinks this movie is going to be about as memorable as “Get on the Bus.” Question: How are they going to get through the Lincoln Tunnel? [...]
“Red Eye” Beating CNN’s Primetime Lineup
Monday, February 8th, 2010Amazing, but true: Despite its 3 am timeslot, Greg Gutfeld’s hilarious libertarian comedy yakfest “Red Eye” does better than CNN’s 8 and 9 pm entries and ties Anderson Cooper at 10. After CNN blew, what, $50 million promoting Coop? Gutfeld does it entirely on skill, word of mouth, and Bill Schulz’s devilish good looks. Congrats [...]
CRU Majorly Futzing with Climate-Change Data
Monday, February 1st, 2010But don’t worry….that claim is only coming from a typical right-wing wackjob: The Guardian newspaper.
Review: Diane Sawyer on ABC’s World News
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Former Nixon Girl Diane Sawyer lands a big interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How impressed should we be? More in my TV review.
Wikipedia in Trouble?
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009A Wall Street Journal feature looks at some problems facing Wikipedia, which is losing editors and worried about quality control. I’m a little more worried that writers have started using the phrase, “According to Wikipedia.” If what Wikipedia says isn’t traceable to a credible source, it’s just gossip.
Review: “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe”
Friday, November 13th, 2009I was pleasantly surprised by the evenhandedness of a documentary on radical lawyer William Kunstler made by his daughters. Kunstler was a character; as a cub reporter at the Post from 1993 to 1996, I quickly learned that four people you could always get on the phone to comment about anything were Kunstler, Trump, Dr. [...]
Beat the Press: “Us Against Them”
Thursday, October 8th, 2009A strange Time magazine article about the Obama administration’s newfound hostility to the press — including the Washington Post and the New York Times — shows how the increasingly surly White House gang thinks it is wise to spend more effort attacking the media. I guess we’ll find out!
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