The Right Staff is Key I have to excerpt almost this entire posting from Above the Law, because you have to read it to believe it.  This might just make a good comment at the blog, but unfortunately the comments section at ATL — which is still, in many respects, a remarkable thing, as David L...

Instapundit: TRANSPARENCY: An “Off-the-Record speechâ€� at the National Press Club? It’s a tribute to Dr. Strangelove: “You can’t do reporting here! This is the press club!â€� Well, I followed the link and I was pretty confused.  Isn’t the National Press Club’s most famous event...

Instapundit: It’s interesting to me that we see far more anger from Old Media folks aimed at bloggers, etc., than at Craigslist, even though Craigslist has done far more economic harm to the newspaper industry than bloggers, who probably add eyeballs rather than (as Craigslist does) subtracting th...

Instapundit: THOUGHTS ON gay rights and the G.O.P.’s future: “It’s not that we’re likely to crack more than 35% of the gay vote (well, maybe 40%). But, to win back the suburbs, Republicans can’t alienate suburbanites. And anti-gay attitudes don’t resonate with families who have known gay...

The AP wants to make damned sure you get their point: [T]alk turns to the state of the Union, and the Optimists become decidedly bleak. They use words such as “terrified,” “disgusted” and “scary” to describe what one calls “this mess” we Americans find...

Chris Matthews’s Leg: I’m confident America is ready for a leader who doesn’t know what the crap he’s talking about, but says it in a truly beautiful and uplifting way. After all, we had the exact opposite for the last seven years. I’ve got that thrilling sense that we&...

Black bloggers “fight to make [their] voices heard,” says the SF Chronicle (via Glenn, again): With its power-to-the-individual approach, the new media world promises anyone with a laptop the possibility of a publishing empire. But, as some black bloggers are finding out, the new media w...

More than a year ago, I posted this — merely a link to Bob Cox’s Olbermann-obsessed blog — and it remains one of my highest-traffic posts, and one that has had a recent odd upsurge in traffic. He’s baaaack! What a wicked, mediocre man.  And he’s hardly alone....

Mickey Kaus: a thought born embalmed as a cliche, already tiresome from anticipated over-expression before being sincerely expressed in the first place Wow, he’s so out in front of whatever it is he’s talking about that I, for one, have no idea what on earth he’s talking about....

Mickey Kaus quotes Chris Matthews on his Pennsylvania prediction for Hillary – Eight points. I think eight points is the over/under. If she gets a victory of less than 8 I think shes going to have a hard time arguing that she should stay in this race. …. [S]he cant call it a victory winn...