Carlos Lozada interviews James K. "Dow 36000" Glassman. Lozada pulls his punches--there is a stunning lack of follow-up: OUTSPOKEN: A Conversation With James K. Glassman: LOZADA: So, 10 years ago you predicted the Dow would reach 36,000 [in 3 to 5 years--note]. This week, the Dow fell to its lowest ...

After eight years spent gagged and bound, Jerry Taylor is once again allowed on the stage. Matthew Yglesias welcomes him back: Matthew Yglesias » Jerry Taylor, National Review, and Executive Power: I did a post this morning noting with amazement that the inauguration of Barack Obama was swiftl...

The latest Washington Post employee to show that he has no business at all in journalism is "ombudsman" Andy Alexander--who should be run out of town this morning, if not sooner. Let's turn the microphone over to Hilzoy:: Obsidian Wings: The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process": I haven't...

Newsweek Crashed-and-Burned Watch: Tom Tomorrow makes a catch: This Modern World: Media meltdown watch: Newsweek’s response to the Ongoing Cluster@#*& is a fabulous new makeover: Newsweek also plans to lean even more heavily on the appeal of big-name writers like Christopher Hitchens, Fare...

He writes, about Clive Crook's pointless and annoying "balance": Calling Out Clive Crook | Capital Gains and Games: I know and truly like Clive Crook.  We were colleagues for a while when I wrote for nationaljournal.com, and the BTW and I have joined Clive and his wonderful wife for dinner a number...

More from the Washington Post crashed-and-burned watch. Mark Kleiman: Global-warming denialism as a conspiracy theory: One largely unremarked aspect of global-warming denialism (as exemplified by George Will and demolished by Mike [below] and Zachary Roth at TPM) is that it amounts to a conspiracy t...

Ezra Klein: Lies, Damned Lies, and Betsy McCaughey: Watching Betsy McCaughey lie about Barack Obama's health care legislation is a little bit like watching Aretha Franklin on stage: It's not as good as you remember, but you have to admit that she's still got it......

Duncan Black sends us to Ana Marie Cox's twitter feed... Does Mara Liasson know that Ana Marie Cox works for Air America? With these Mean Girls, it's hard to know one way or another: Ana Marie Cox on Twitter: Mara Liasson next to me; on the phone; just said "He called on Huffington Post! I was surpr...

With the exception of the wingnuts in the neo-Hooverite caucus, both Republican and Democratic economic advisors were telling their legislative principles by late fall that a fiscal boost would be a good thing--Republican economists saying that they would prefer tax cuts targetted toward people with...

Patricia Cohen of the New York Times ignorantly slimes Stanley Kutler on page 1: John Dean’s Role at Issue in Nixon Tapes Feud: A handful of historians and authors maintain that the most authoritative transcripts of those recordings include significant omissions and misrepresentations that cou...