FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Tonight’s “Countdown” was most notable for what wasn’t said: Keith bragged about having canceled a segment on the supposed plagiarism in George W. Bush’s new book. “Only when I saw the actual books just before air tonight was it evident that a lot of these so-called similarities appear only when some very selective editing is done, either in Bush‘s book or the other ones. So the segment is dead.” (more)
So, did anything happen in the world of Keith Olbermann last week? I’m a little behind, but it seems like a pretty typical, ho-hum week. (more)
Since retiring from the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been on a mission to overcome the ignorance of far too many students in our schools of the roots of their liberties in American history. (more)
The last week of summer tends to present an unusually small number of things to be angry about. All over America, people take time off work and drive to the beach and try not to think about the coming fall. We read fat novels, enjoy our families and soak up the sun. And although it’s hard to say what’s cause and what’s effect, the world itself tends to comply with this sleepy mood, and the news seems to get slower and less consequential before returning full blast after Labor Day. It’s a hot, lazy and happy time for most of us. (more)
Now that I am back on dry land, I am able to write about something that has been on my mind since last week, after watching a disaster of a TV show, a.k.a. The Charlie Rose Show. The remote control was indeed working overtime late Thursday night in all of the seamless channel transitions between Letterman and Charlie Rose. For last Thursday night I was on a quest: a quest to find TV comedy even if that meant finding it on the most unconventional of channels, PBS. And wow, I sure struck gold Thursday night between CBS and PBS. The ”last channel” button on the remote is truly a fascinating feature to me … forget the damn remote, just give me the ”last channel” button … but that wouldn’t be very practical now would it? (more)
The problem with the mainstream media is not that they are liberals. It’s that they are cowards. They simply will not engage with any thought that threatens their worldview. (more)
Once Rep. Allyson Schwartz of Pennsylvania came up with the brilliantly greedy idea of taxing even unearned income, I had half a mind to conjure Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” The famous wit suggested eating young people as a means of easing economic stress, and I felt perhaps it was time to apply his deficit reduction technique to modern times by devouring Democrats like Schwartz. (more)
Thank goodness President Barack Obama told the world last June that the United States could be seen as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” If it weren’t for that declaration there wouldn’t be one Muslim country helping out in Haiti. (more)
