Mark Judge

Whenever I see liberals gloating over the chaos that is the Republican primary, I think of the Battle of Lepanto. It’s a good reminder that it’s better to be a member of a quarreling, splintered beehive of free people than a member of the mindless Borg ship that is liberalism. (more)

To truly understand the depthless awfulness of the just-posted “interview” that Slate’s Jacob Weisberg conducted with Rachel Maddow, one needs to turn to religion. Simply saying that Weisberg interviewing Maddow is like Tiger Beat interviewing Justin Bieber is just not enough anymore. It misses the bigger picture. (more)

This year, Brad Pitt announced that within three years he will retire from making movies. If he has the guts to actually do it, Pitt should become a national hero --- Saint Brad of the Dignified Exit. Either due to personal ego, or the fact that medicine is letting people live as long as Old Testament patriarchs, or both, people just aren’t taking their bows when they should. I say better to go out like Leonidas in “300,” felled gloriously by a cloud of arrows in battle, than be Larry King, who now drools more than the kids he keeps having. As 2011 draws to a close, it’s time to cull the field. Here are 10 people who need to retire posthaste. (more)

I’m having a Spike Lee moment. (more)

Could Christopher Hitchens become a Christian? (more)

Whenever I have nightmares about the documentary I am attempting to make about Whittaker Chambers, one thought keeps me going. (more)

It’s time for a movie about Whittaker Chambers. (more)

To read Matt Taibbi, a popular and well-paid journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, is to witness the extreme cowardice and creative bankruptcy of the modern media. Taibbi is a Hunter S. Thompson wannabe, but a comparison between the two reveals no small differences. It in fact reveals a chasm, a massive gorge that indicates how propagandistic and predictable the press has become since Thompson’s heyday in the 1970s. (more)

“Nothing drives this blog quite as crazy as media organizations that don't answer questions about their own journalism.” (more)

“Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York,” the new memoir by James Wolcott, is the best book I’ve read this year --- perhaps the best book I’ve read in several years. Wolcott, a columnist for Vanity Fair, is a liberal who has a serious and hypocritical blind spot about politics and journalism. But before getting to that, I want to praise this penetrating, poetic and quite fantastic book. It will probably wind up on many college reading lists, and deserves to. (more)

At 9:42 on Halloween night, I sent myself an email. It read: “Halloween shooting.” I had just walked a few blocks from Wisconsin and M Streets in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood. I knew it was only a matter of time before someone got shot, most likely a black teenager. It was so obvious what was going to happen that I wanted to just email myself a note. There was simply no way, after what I had just seen, that someone was not going to get killed; I think I wanted to predict it just out of sheer frustration. We all know what the problem is. But we just don’t have the guts to speak honestly about the issue of unsupervised black teenagers from broken homes and the havoc they can cause --- to themselves and others. (more)

It’s time for another Maureen Dowd column. This time, I think I’ll write it for her. (more)

I really began to understand America’s crisis of fatherhood, and manhood more generally, in April 2007, when I made a YouTube video called “How to Shave.” Shortly after uploading the video, I began to get comments from boys who did not have fathers. The comments were all a variation on the same theme --- “I don’t have a father, so thanks for this video!” One kid called me his “YouTube dad.” If I had only gotten a few of these comments I would have attributed them to the fact that there always are and have always been kids who don’t have fathers. But I was getting a lot of them, consistently --- too many to dismiss. (more)

Jack Shafer had his list ready. The celebrated media critic, who was laid off from Slate a few weeks ago then picked up by Reuters, was doing a live chat discussion on September 21 at the journalism site Poynter.org. A reader asked him about liberal media bias and what to do about it. Shafer, apparently off the top of his head, offered this: (more)

A key to unlocking the mystery of Washington Post writer Manuel Roig-Franzia and his animus towards Catholicism is the fact that he once called Henry Allen a c*cksucker. If we could solve the puzzle of the name-calling, which resulted in a fist fight, we may be able to pin down the reasons for Roig-Franzia’s liberal bias against the Catholic Church. (more)

According to Erik Wemple, The Washington Post’s new media writer, Sarah Palin is a hypocrite. The former Alaska governor supports abstinence education, yet according to tabloid reporter Joe McGinniss, in 1988 Palin had a one-night stand with a basketball player. Palin was not married at the time, although she was dating Todd Palin. Put all this together, writes Wemple, and Palin is “fair game.” His reasoning: “Hypocrisy is a quality that must be exposed in our political leaders: If Palin backs abstinence-only education and shuns talk of contraception and the like, then we are entitled to know whether her own lifestyle aligned with her rhetoric. And so we’re learning about Palin’s alleged Reagan-era sex life.” (more)

The only thing I found shocking about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s sad, juvenile post about 9/11 is that conservatives were shocked by it. Less than a week ago, I wrote a piece for The Daily Caller exploring how liberalism is a religion, one that considers conservatives to be Satan. Why is anyone surprised that Krugman, the pluperfect left-winger, is acting like the axioms of his religion are more important than decency? When the devil appears, you toss holy water and ask questions later. (more)

It’s a strange commentary on our times that, 10 years after 9/11, while most writers, scholars and politicians are still reluctant to talk openly about the central question of the War on Terror --- Does Islam condone violence? --- one of the few men who is willing to talk about it is an 83-year-old Jesuit priest. (more)

A few weeks ago, I wrote in The Daily Caller that the media has become a bunch of girly men. When Sarah Palin’s non-campaign campaign bus ran a couple red lights, the fourth estate acted like Palin had used her RV to crash the gate at Disney World. (more)

The incestuous world of D.C./New York journalism is in shock. Slate, the redundant liberal website owned by The Washington Post, has laid off four writers. This comes after The Post announced another disastrous quarter, with a 13 percent loss in online revenues. (more)