Posts Tagged ‘Washington Post’

So in writing this story about Cougars moving east from South Dakota towards more populated regions Washington Post writer Kari Lyderson is clearly having fun.
“Go east, young cougar!”
That approach seems to apply to a growing number of young male cougars striking out from the Black Hills of South Dakota in search of new [...]


Everyone complains about political reporting, but I really think sports reporting can be far goofier. Here Thomas Boswell’s most recent column in which it hard to know what planet he lives on. It’s titled “Saying Sorry Can Be A Tough Sell”
All winter, and especially in recent days, Washington has experienced in concentrated doses the same bitter [...]


You’ll love Rudy Giuliani or so says David Greenberg. Greenberg apparently writing both a Washpost opinion piece and a Democratic National Committee fund raising letter, tells us all about how conservative and like Bush Giuliani really is when you stop to think about it. The subtitle visible from the Washpost.com homepage this afternoon read:
“Talk of [...]


Fact Checkers

29Oct07

If you’ve ever read a fact check column and been displeased with the quality of the fact checking then you might wonder, who fact checks the fact checkers? Actually lots of people do, blogs, campaigns, other news outlets, just about anybody that can use google can give it a shot. I gather I’m not alone [...]


Here’s a post by Matthew Yglesias about the meaning of campaign proposals. Included is the line
If Barack Obama campaigns as someone who takes on the hawkish Beltway CW on foreign policy, then it’s likely he’ll govern as someone who believes he has nothing to fear from the Washington Post editorial page.
It’s a good post, [...]


The New (I think it’s new) Washpost feature “Right Matters A Conversation about Conservatism with Ramesh Ponnuru” is super annoying.
Today’s conversation thread is fronting the Rush Limbaugh excuse regarding his claim that “phony soldiers” are the cause of media reports that Iraq is a disaster and the military is unhappy.   Short version of [...]