December 20, 2015 Salon’s clickbait strategy: The phantom fight against ӣƵ The alarming headline on the liberal website Salon signaled a frontal attack on the cable network it holds in contempt.
December 20, 2015 Why long shots and also-rans run for president: It’s the media, stupid In the television age, running for president is automatically assumed to be a good thing—even as a long shot.
December 20, 2015 Why Hillary, deBlasio and the Democrats keep charging to the left The entire Democratic Party is moving, almost lurching, to the left.
December 20, 2015 From Mitt to Huck to Hillary: Are the media penalizing wealthy candidates? Mike Huckabee, who jumped into the presidential race yesterday, apparently has some new baggage:
December 20, 2015 Classic Clinton: Bill swats away questions with a smile on NBC It was a virtuoso performance by Bill Clinton: the slickness, the charm, the defensiveness, the evasions, the aw-shucks style, combativeness with a smile.
December 20, 2015 Hillary is moving left, but she isn’t divorcing Bill (politically speaking) Hillary Clinton is distancing herself from her husband. She’s disavowing his policies. She’s abandoning his legacy!
December 20, 2015 Baltimore flip-flop: When did ‘thugs’ become a radioactive word? Why on earth are we having a debate about the word “thugs”?
December 20, 2015 The press finally gets to question Hillary, and the results are lame Now that wasn’t so hard, was it?
December 20, 2015 A firing offense: Boston Globe mocks Boehner assassination plot It’s hard to think of a more dead-serious story than a plot to assassinate John Boehner.
December 20, 2015 Fierce backlash against the liberal who trashed the PC police Eleven years ago, Jonathan Chait wrote the following: “I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. I think his policies rank him among the worst presidents in U.S. history…I suspect that, if I got to know him personally, I would hate him even more.”