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Happy Birthday, RedState
Erick Erickson and our friends at RedState are marking their fourth birthday today. We wish them all the best. They're celebrating by unwrapping a great new web site design so check it out when you get a chance.
In Memoriam, Tony Snow
The news of Tony Snow’s death wasn’t wholly unexpected, but it’s still devastating. Tony was a man brimming with optimism and you just felt that if anyone could beat this cancer, he could do it. He was an absolute professional in his craft and always, always a gentleman. The conservative movement is diminished today and anyone who knew him is heartbroken for his wife, Jill, and his three children…
Saturday Funnies: 'Imagine There's No Global Warming
Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming -- the folks who brought us the fabulous video "If We Had Some Global Warming" -- have just released a new number deliciously set to John Lennon's "Imagine."Update: Lyrics at end of post.
Washington Post Op-ed: 'Phil Gramm Is Right
Does the Washington Post agree with former Sen. Phil Gramm's recent assessment that "We have sort of become a nation of whiners" when it comes to the economy?After all, the Post published an op-ed Saturday by economic historian Amity Shlaes entitled "Phil Gramm is Right." Although readers are strongly encouraged to review the entire marvelous piece, the following are some of the highlights (…
Tony Snow, RIP
In 2006, I was invited to attend the annual Television and Radio Correspondents Dinner in Washington, DC. Before and after the big shindig, all the major news organizations throw parties in the same hotel. I attended the Fox News event, and Tony Snow was there. I had never met Tony and he didn't know me from Adam. I was just a neophyte blogger from this new site, NewsBusters. Nevertheless,…
HuffPost Closes Comments On Snow's Death Announcement
It appears the good folks at the Huffington Post have a firm grasp on the hatefulness of their members, for the article published there on Saturday concerning the passing of Tony Snow is not accepting comments.I guess Huffington's employees anticipated disgusting remarks about the former White House press secretary, and rather than deal with them on an individual basis chose to prevent them…
Ben Stein: Media Are Whipping Us Into Economic Despair
Days after former Sen. Phil Gramm told the Washington Times that "We have sort of become a nation of whiners" when it comes to the economy, Ben Stein claimed, "It's the media that is whipping us into this frenzy."Deliciously, this came just minutes after a Democrat strategist actually said, "We are in the toughest economic time we have ever been in this country." As such, I would make the case…
Classless AP Takes Cheap Shots at Just-Passed Snow
At long last, has the Associated Press lost all sense of decency?The AP's story (saved here for future reference in case the wire service is embarrassed into revising it; you might consider saving it too as Exhibit A on how far over the cliff the dinosaur media has driven itself) by Douglass K. Daniel, with Jennifer Loven contributing (I might have known), gets in at least three cheap,…
Tony Snow Passes at 53 of Colon Cancer - Godspeed, Tony
We’ve lost another giant today. I was prepared to go straight to bed after having stayed up all night watching movies, but as I tuned to the TV, I saw that one of my favorite people, Tony Snow, had passed. I could not be sadder. He was only 53 years old, and colon cancer took his life. The world is missing a great friend today. Godspeed, Tony.