Huffington Post’s Misogyny
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 26th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Huffington Post’s Misogyny
Mary Katharine Ham, Weekly Standard
Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post thinks Mark Halperin's “Something About Mary”-style Photoshop of Mary Landrieu is inappropriate. I agree. I'm a sucker for pop-culture references, but there's a sexual connotation (even if it is more juvenile than degrading), and it shouldn't be used to diminish a United States senator at Time Magazine. (So nobody gets caught up in calling me out for not calling out right-wingers, Beck and Limbaugh were inappropriate on Landrieu, too.)I'm not here to quarrel with the substance of Linkins' criticism, however, but with…
Holder’s Decision is Embarrassing & Offensive
Michael Gerson, Wash Post
Two weeks ago, in the Friday news black hole with President Obama safely on the way to Asia, Attorney General Eric Holder announced his decision to award five Sept. 11 conspirators, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the full rights of American citizens at a federal trial. Holder perhaps hoped the tides of the cable cycle would wash the news away. They haven't, for a number of reasons. First, Holder's Senate testimony on the trials added to public concerns instead of allaying them. He was unprepared for obvious questions. What would happen if the terrorists were acquitted?…
Health Care Mandate is Consitutional
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Obama: The First ‘Pacific President’?
George Will, Newsweek
Inflation is not only a monetary matter.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasBarack Obama's irresistible, or at least unresisted, propensity for self-aggrandizement bubbled up yet again during his recent trip to the Far East when he proclaimed himself “America's first Pacific president.” Hearing this, Asians may have muttered about inscrutable Occidentals. Obama's exercise in rhetorical grandiosity, while hardly his first, was exquisitely meaningless. (Click here to follow George F. Will).Yes,…
