Perhaps Mitt Romney played it right when he was meek and contrite in response to the Washington Post’s front-page allegations that he bullied a kid half a century ago in high school.
Romney no doubt feels embarrassed by the charges, even if most …
Category Archives: Daily Briefing
Romney’s Media Handicap
Missile Defense Is for Wimps
Last week, the major media focused on issues of global consequence — like whether Mitt Romney and his “prep school posse” engaged in forcible hair-cutting almost a half-century ago. Most journalists had little time or patience for the…
Health Care, Chicago Style
This week the Department of Health and Human Services allocated a $5.9 million grant to Chicago’s Urban Health Initiative. This is the not-for-profit program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center, at which Michelle Obama was once an ex…
Uncovering Early Islam
The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien),…
Playing Politics with Protectionism
As part of his recent “to-do list” presented to Congress, President Obama suggested that one useful form of economic stimulus would be to “stop rewarding companies who ship jobs overseas, and use that money to cover moving expenses fo…
What Happened in Greece?
In Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Clichés, liberals in the United States try to conceal their ideological bias by pretending to be objective, pragmatic, and moderate. The Greek Left, on the other hand, operating in a center-left country, …
Obama’s Arkansas Problem
In West Virginia, federal inmate Keith Judd recently swiped 42 percent of Democratic votes from the president, indicating the level of dissatisfaction among the rank and file. And according to a Talk Business–Hendrix College poll conducted on May…
Romney’s Russian Reset
It was a bad week for Russian president Vladimir Putin.
First, there was the crash of the Russian-made airliner in Indonesia that killed 45 people and wrecked whatever’s left of the reputation of Russia’s struggling aerospace industry. Seco…
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LMFAO is Getting a Bad Rap 
Context: Exceptionalism… 
The Other Global Warming Story 
Please Stay on the Line, Your Call is Very Important to Us -- and Other Lies 
A "Lost" Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1 
Obama's Mantra: Don't Blame Me 
Trayvon Martin and Media Hypocrisy 
Goldberg on Rather Canceling O'Reilly 
CNN's Failed Piers Morgan Experiment
- Trayvon Martin and Media Hypocrisy
- A "Lost" Fact in the “Rathergate” Mess — Part 1
Is Jon Stewart A Racist? 
Why Media Bias Matters - Obama's Mantra: Don't Blame Me
Time to Go, Rick 
A New Entry for 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America 
The Man Who Would Be Dictator 
Who Can Beat Obama? 
The 5 Stages of Mitt