George Will

Looking for Votes, Rightbloggers Explore "Conservative Reform," Find Pretty Much Conservatism

Last week rightbloggers remained occupied with the recent D.C. scandals, which some of them expect to result in the President's impeachment; they even have a March on Washington and a shady poll to give them hope. We expect they will result in some sort of impeachment, if only of certain people's ju ... More >>

Bathed in Amber Light, 42 Sugars Over the Greatest Generation's Dark Side

Hillary, Roe v. Wade's 40th, and the Great Conservative Revival Not Working Out for Rightbloggers

Since the 2012 Presidential election, conservatives have been trying to think up ways to revive their movement. Last week a number of them approached the subject, including George F. Will (basically you're doing great don't change anything), Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (basically you're doing g ... More >>

Is This the End of the Culture War? Nah -- Too Much Money In It.

Recently at The Week, rightwing author Michael K. Lewis penned a provocative column called "The culture war is over, and conservatives lost." He was echoing what many rightbloggers have been saying since the recent election -- that after two consecutive victories by the Kenyan Pretender, conservativ ... More >>

Rightbloggers Anticipate Romney Landslide, Denounce Nate Silver, Katy Perry

The election's Tuesday, and the whole political blogosphere is one endless screaming rah-rah for one candidate or another. We advise against all direct contact with it from now till next weekend. The preemptive victory dances of the left blogosphere are, as we never tire of paraphrasing Jed Leland, ... More >>

As Romney Holds Back On Tax Returns, The Press Goes Into A Frenzy

The more Mitt Romney refuses to provide his tax returns except for 2010 and 2011 (the latter is forthcoming), the more editorialists are foaming at the mouth about the shady absurdity of his evasions under pressure. Here are some highlights of what's been written. (Feel free to read this, then wri ... More >>

Merry Gingrich! Rightbloggers Brighten the Holiday Season with their Big Newt Fight

Maybe it's because of the holidays, but we're learning to stop worrying and love Newtmentum. Amazingly, the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich looks like the front-runner in the Republican Presidential race. This delights rightbloggers who enjoy Gingrich's cantankerous style. But it's not a ... More >>

Football vs. Baseball? The Same Old B.S. Argument.

​It's the time of year for that oddest subgenre of sportswriting, the "Football vs. Baseball" column. Pro football, of course, always wins in these debates, largely because they're argued along the only terms that sportswriters know: television ratings. First out of the gate is David Steele on A ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Robert Byrd's Racism Until It's Time to Beat Up Some Black Guy

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd passed away last week at age 92. Among the items in his lengthy CV was a year-long membership in the Ku Klux Klan. He also had some kind words for that organization and its principles thereafter. Eventually Byrd denounced his Klan involvement as "my biggest mistake.. ... More >>

Rand Paul: He May Be a Fool, Say Rightbloggers, But He's Our Fool

"Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show With some smart-ass New York Jew And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool..." -- Randy Newman, "Rednecks" Last week, fresh from winning the GOP nomination for Senator Jim ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Brings "Permanent" Street Closings; Ratner Writes a Letter; Haier In On Barclays Center

Atlantic Yards Report reproduces a notice that says, starting on February 1, stretches of Pacific Street and Fifth Avenue within the footprint will be "permanently closed," presumably in preparation for work on the Ratner megacomplex at Atlantic Yards. Dan Goldstein of Develop Don't Destroy Bro ... More >>

Harry Reid's "Negro" Remarks Spur Another Rightblogger Seminar on Who The Real Racists Are

Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's new book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential campaign is full of hilarious revelations. Among these is the news that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listed among Barack Obama's electoral advantages that he was "light skinned" and had "no Neg ... More >>

Atlantic Yards, Bloomberg get national bad press

The press in other places have​ discovered the Mayor's pet Atlantic Yards project, with a scathing AP piece on the human cost of eminent domain and a firebreathing George Will column on how much the Founding Fathers would have disapproved. Neither mentions the mayor, but both make it far more ... More >>

David Brooks Explains His Deep Personal Connection with Bruce Springsteen

​Thanksgiving, as we have learned to our sorrow, begins the Christmas season of uplifting stories. Today's gush is from Times columnist David Brooks, who tells how, as a young pedant in 1975, he "began a part of my second education" by seeing a Bruce Springsteen show. This, he explains, was an ... More >>

Jockbeat: Did Sonia Sotomayor Save Baseball Or Didn't She?

Did Sonia Sotomayor save baseball or didn't she?  All week long the press has been heatedly debating the extent to which President Obama's Supreme Court nominee impacted the national pastime with her 1995 decision.  First, a brief summary of what it was that Sotomayor did. In 1994, with th ... More >>

Rightwing, Tea'd Out, Returns to Galt-Going

Now that the tea parties are settled, we can return to traditional conservative concerns -- sloppy dressers, and Going Galt. George Will today decries the common herd's taste for denim (did you know that even "Silicon Valley billionaires" wear it?), TV programming that "frequently features childli ... More >>

After The Fall, Rightbloggers Divided: Are Most Americans Socialists, or Dupes?

A CIA Lawyer's Smoking Gun

Interrogators were told: 'If a detainee dies, you're doing it wrong.'

The President's Last Stand

No lame duck, Bush has big plans to push through an imperial legacy before he leaves

Have a Nice Flight

Boeing helps CIA fly kidnapped suspects abroad for torture

The Nerds Are Pissed

New York University opts for war with its best and brightest

The Danger After Miers

The departure of the bastinadoed Harriet Miers does not take Bush off the hook

Bush Against the Ropes

Democrats ought to be able to put him away, but you know how they are

George Bush to Try, Try Again

On Friday, it's nutty-seeming Dubya vs. strengthening Kerry

Dust Raking

Stop the presses! Liberal journos donate to Democrats! Plus: N.Y.C. protesters spark mad tab disease

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 1911–2004

Jayson Blair Comes to Harlem

Plagiarizing, Fabricating, Way, Way Fallen Black Dude Seeks Salvation on 125th

The Great Butch Hope

Can Wesley Clark Deliver the Male?

Sports

Sports

A Liberal Slant to the News?

This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

Scandal? What Scandal?

Enron Too Complicated for Some

Improbable Cause

Pundits Square Off Over Secret Tribunals

All Puff and No Daddy

Combs Verdict a Tabloid Bonanza

Culture Vultures

The Culture Wars Are 10 Years Old. Has the Right Won the Struggle Over P.C., Multiculturalism, and the Canon?

Midnight’s Children

Millennial Prophecies

Exclusive! America’s Only Psychic Journalist Reports the News Before it Happens!

Pundit Pattons

Pundit-cide

Hyde in Plain Sight