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This Is Surprising
Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations Eager to hear how partisans on both sides will spin this one.Filed under: Media, The Partisan Mind
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On the Radio – Job Creation
Just wrapped up a 20-minute interview on Jim Kearney’s Financial Spectrum show on WKXL 1450 in Concord, New Hampshire. We talked about job creation — more specifically, CEI’s 10-point job creation...
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“Politics Is Weird. And Creepy.”
I have little love for Fox News, or for cable news in general. But Shepard Smith is both hilarious and spot-on in this 30-second clip. Click here if the embedded video doesn’t work. Filed under:...
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Why Opinion Pages Are Insipid
Benjamin Constant, in 1815, presciently describes nearly every U.S. newspaper’s editorial page two centuries later, from David Brooks on the right to E.J. Dionne on the left: The ambition of the...
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Slow News Day
Politico: Hillary Clinton wears cat-eye sunglassesFiled under: General Foolishness, Media, Political Animals
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Slow News Day
It’s the typical election-year July lull here in Washington. Here’s a small taste of newshounds’ suffering: Obama meets with Jerry Springer Obama likes Thin Mints bestFiled under: Media
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Getting Buchanan Wrong
The New York Times obituary for James Buchanan is up. The opening paragraph contains a whopper of an error: James M. Buchanan, a scholar and author whose analyses of economic and political...
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How Not to Write a Lede
In journalism, the lede is the first sentence or two of a story. It’s spelled that way to disambiguate it from the various meanings of the word “lead.” The lede’s job is to summarize the story as...
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The Politics of SpongeBob
Two unrelated news stories caught my eye this morning that capture the depth of today’s political discourse. The first is a Politico story explaining, apparently in all seriousness, why SpongeBob...
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A Really Slow News Day
Headlines from some of today’s most-read stories at Politico: –Bo Obama turns 7! A look inside the first dog’s fetching life –The GOP Is Throwing Away Millions of Dollars (trillions is more accurate –...
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Breaking News
Politico: Trump says he will hold press conference soonFiled under: Media
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Breaking News
The Hill: John Bolton: ‘I will not be shaving my mustache’Filed under: Media
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Don’t Trust Political Memes, and Don’t Share Them
Think of this post as a public service message. In some ways, memes are the 21st century version of the comic strip or the political cartoon. They can be quite funny, and they make their point in just...
View ArticleJames Grant – Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
James Grant – Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian Grant finally settles the question of how to pronounce Walter Bagehot’s name (BADGE-it). Maddeningly, he does not do this until the...
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Politics by Meme
Here is a political meme that has been making the rounds on social media: I agree with this one of this meme’s main points–the federal government spends too much on corporate welfare. But its numbers...
View ArticleEconomics Can Help Explain Conspiracy Theorists
There is a lot of conspiracy theory garbage floating around. On January 6, it took a violent turn. Five people died in a coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, over obviously false claims of a stolen...
View ArticleFacebook’s Content Moderation Decisions Preferable to One-Size-Fits-All...
This news release was originally posted on cei.org. Facebook announced today it suspended former President Donald Trump from the platform for two years retroactive to January 7, 2021. Responding to a...
View ArticleFighting Bias and Misinformation, from Pierre Bayle’s 17th Century to the...
Many people insist that media bias and misinformation are getting worse in the social media age, and we need to do something about it. Depending on whether one leans Democratic or Republican, tech...
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