Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
September 10th, 2021 2:52 PM

Washington -- How could a comic figure from the world of politics such as President Joe Biden suddenly become such a tragic figure on the American scene? One minute he is bringing all civilized observers to laughter by telling Katie Couric that former President Franklin Roosevelt dealt with the 1929 stock market crash by getting "on television" and reassuring his fellow Americans as only FDR…

 

After It's Discredited, NYT Praises Shoddy Anti-Conservative Hit Book

Clay Waters
August 21st, 2017 12:49 PM
Unprofessional all around: The decision by the New York Times Sunday Book Review to publish a laudatory review of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. At this point, the grievous flaws flushed out by critics on the left and right should have required that any review come with a warning label. Yet even months after criticism from outlets across…
 

Tanenhaus Uses Shoddy Hit-Book to Further His Crusade Vs Racist Right

Clay Waters
July 5th, 2017 9:38 AM
Journalist Sam Tanenhaus, who fancies himself an expert on the conservative movement (without actual evidence of such expertise), has a review of a shoddy attack book on the conservative movement by Duke University scholar Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Many fatal flaws in the book have been spotted by conservative journalists…
 

Economists Warn Obamanomics Could Create Depression; WSJ's Moore Respo

Jeff Poor
September 8th, 2009 11:27 AM
It's clear that President Barack Obama's $787-billion stimulus hasn't worked as advertised, but some economists are worried it could backfire and cause something much worse. According to a new study by economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute and endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan, the Keynesian tactics employed by Obama "will…