On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

We started off with Roger Simon’s wondering if his new book would be reviewed in the NYT. That led us to the feud between Simon’s publisher and the NYT book review. The Roger Kimball piece mentioned Harvey Mansfield’s bad treatment at the hands of the Times, and we recalled mention...

Santa and his helpers stand under palm trees at Baghdad’s first public Christmas festiv By Nancy Morgan As we come to the end of a turbulent year, a new poll pretty much sums up the state of our country: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are now the most admired man and woman in America, accord...

Camille Paglia on various issues (Salon Magazine) Though she and I often disagree, I have often found Camille Paglia to be an interesting and provocative read. On the above thread, she covers: --The subject of President Obama's pledge of federal money for infrastructure repairs which she applauds as...

On How To Approach the Presidential Election Results of 2008 and Analyzing the Political Trends for 2008 and Beyond: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) As we announced in a previous posting, certain exceptions notwithstanding and at our discretion{1}, this is the only posting we inten...

THE FOUNDATION “No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of forei...

Miscellaneous Musings: It seems appropriate to note before the tide of the msm orgasms about how thanks to the election that we are about to be "led out of Egypt" and to a "land flowing with milk and honey" precisely what sort of failed policies have been promoted under the banner of "change." One i...

A Dialogue On the State of Journalism: (Aka "Tales of the Gold Monkey Mailbag" Dept.) The following is some feedback from a few months back on to this weblog from three years ago: On the Subject of "Deep Throat", the Correlative Ramifications Thereof, Etc. (circa June 1, 2005) In light of (i) the ms...

On the Passing of Tony Snow: Coming on the heels of the passing last month of Tim Russert, I am sure Tony Snow would not mind me mentioning him in the same sentence. Journalism as a profession to which I am usually professing of no small amount of disdain for{1} but in the past month two of its fine...

Revisiting the Subject of the Surge and the Deafening Silence of the MSM Thereof: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) One of the advantages of focusing so much on fundamental principles for the positions we have taken and continue to take on various and sundry issues over the years is ...