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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Politics Daily just turned one year old! Melinda Henneberger, PD's editor in chief, treats early arrivals to a retelling of our online paper's "creation myth," and kicks off the evening's "civilogue." Religion reporter David Gibson, just back from Rome, speaks about the crisis facing the Catholic Church. Carl Cannon, PD's deputy editor, introduces the debate between PD columnists Peter Wehner and David Corn (moderated by military writer David Wood) on our prospects in Afghanistan. ...
I've been thinking a lot about marriage lately. Or, more precisely: unhappy marriages. And I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't time for more women to -- as we say in politics -- "throw the bums out." I got to thinking about this after my colleague, Melinda Henneberger, wrote a post last weekend about one of those marriages about which we know just a bit too much: Silda and Elliot Spitzer's. You may recall Spitzer as the former governor of New York who stepped down when it was revealed that he'd been patronizing a prostitution service. And you will certainly recall his wife, Silda, who stood ...
Here's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
An old friend of mine recently posted the following sentence on his Facebook page: "I know this is totally not a PC thing to say, but can someone please explain to me why anyone is still Catholic?" ...
I completely agree with Melinda about the shameful incivility that's on the Internet. People who make spiteful and ignorant comments about a person who has just died are the lowest of the low. I also bet Peggy Noonan is on target with her suspicion that Americans are despondent over having lost control of the country to vulgarians and crooks. I'm plenty despondent over both those developments. ...
Yesterday, I wrote about the sudden flare up of a feud between David Letterman and Sarah Palin. In brief, Letterman made a few off-color jokes about the Alaska governor's recent trip to New York City. Palin, and her husband, Todd, took offense and responded in the press and via the web, denouncing Letterman as "pathetic." Well, on last night's show, Letterman did not shy away from the controversy. Here's what he had to say about it: We're interested in whether you find these jokes funny, offensive, both, or neither. Read Melinda Henneberger's take here. David at Paradigms Lost David on ...
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