Firing My Own Bu-cannon

Having recently enthused about Pat Buchanan’s latest book and then about the man himself here on Taki's Mag, please forgive me one more column about him. His firing from ...

Argumentum ad Fox Newsem

I haven"€™t had a sip of alcohol in thirty years and I"€™ve never been fond of hanging out with retarded people, but if one is foolish enough to establish any presence ...

Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews: A Tingle Inside the Skull

I’m notoriously mean-spirited, so please believe me: When I say I think Chris Matthews has a brain tumor, I am trying to be charitable. The MSNBC mouthpiece’s show is called ...

Pat Buchanan

The Color of Cowardice

The “progressive” group Color of Change seems to have succeeded in its long-running campaign to get Pat Buchanan kicked off MSNBC. It had been lobbying for the conservative ...

Jill Abramson

The World’s Most Dishonest Newspaper

When I was last in the Big Bagel (as I call Noo Yawk), a policeman who’d been awarded countless commendations for bravery over 22 years of front-line service was allegedly ...

Anderson Cooper

Bye-Bye to Butch Broadcasters

The Andy Rooney era has ended. He gave his valedictory 60 Minutes appearance on October 2, 2011. When he began in the summer of 1978, I was preparing to enter college, Carter was ...

Laura Ingraham

Advice to a Lady From an Admirer

Ah, reality! That mysterious, untouchable world of mass and energy, of gravity and fire, of genes and synapses. It lurks out of sight beyond our reach, knowable to us only by the ...

Wiretapping for Moguls

The Guardian, a high-minded leftist broadsheet, had been campaigning for years against Rupert Murdoch’s populist London tabloids. In 2007, private detective Glenn Mulcaire and ...

David Brooks

The Wannabe Hamilton

On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which ...

Hang the Cyber-Pirates

The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising dinner of the city’s American grandees. Dotted among the plutocrats were various ...

NPR’s Middle-Americaphobia

I have to admit I’ve never listened to NPR, but I assume those letters stand for Not (very good at) Public Relations? It’s been a rough year. First came the firing of ...

Murdoch the Media Monopolist

Evidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch's British media empire conspired illegally with private investigators to tap telephones and hack into computers. A recent murder trial ...

I Wish I Were in Cairo

It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so long ago, the sound of gunfire almost anywhere on Earth called me off with the rest of the ...

Jonah Goldberg: A Comfortable “€œConservative”€ in the Belly of the Beast

It is a world historical event when Jonah Goldberg"€”one of our most prominent conservative intellectuals, judging by his book sales and his almost daily TV ...

FOX News Reconstructs Conservative History

FOX News has been running a series on the conservative movement and recently released a DVD showing what purports to be the definitive picture of the movement's progress. I have a ...

Arthur

Who Killed The New York Times?

When William McGowan finished his award-winning book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism, the New York Times Book Review refused to ...


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