UPDATE 4/10/24: Like a good witch out of one of her books, JK Rowling is singlehandedly breaking one of the evil spells cast of late …
Letter to a kindred spirit…
This is one person’s attempt to dispel the poisonous clouds and gloom of an Obama Age of Despair that is slowly engulfing us.
Craven, Caving, Crony Capitalists. Rush Limbaugh loses 29 advertisers
At least 29 companies have pulled their ads from the “The Rush Limbaugh Show” since the conservative talk show host called a law student a “slut” on the air last week, as the social media blitz against the popular radio program showed no signs of slowing down Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73675.html#ixzz1oQzkbWAm
A Nation of Breitbarts Rallies for Rush
Now that the Rally for Rush is in full swing — and winning the day — let’s focus on four things.
Lifelock.
Transgendered persons.
The Washington Post.
You.
Huh? Say what?
Stick with me
Katharine Weymouth Stands Up to Unions, Rescues the Washington Post
The Washington Post exists today because of cost-cutting and quality improvements instituted by publisher Katharine Weymouth. But that hasn’t stopped some Post reporters and the Newspaper Guild from complaining about her compensation.
For her efforts, Weymouth received more than $2 million last year, mostly in bonuses tied to profitability. The New York Post reported that reporters are “fuming” over her pay, given that the paper has been cutting costs, in part by offering reporters buyouts to leave.
Commentary Magazine
Commentary is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neoconservatism in the 1970’s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards.
Vivian Schiller and the Party Line at NPR
The Juan Williams/NPR flap isn’t going away — and shouldn’t. Basically, Williams was fired for not toeing the party line at NPR. A number of observers, including Williams himself, are protesting the hypocrisy of NPR not dismissing the likes of Nina Totenberg for wishing AIDS upon the family of the late Jesse Helms. Of course, that’s no surprise. Totenberg’s hate speech doesn’t qualify as hate speech in the liberal lexicon. Totenberg toes the party line at NPR. She’s a good apparatchik, safe among the party hierarchy.