Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Feb 22,2009

Why can’t the Ford Foundation buy the New York Times?

Asks former Reagan Treasury department official Bruce Bartlett in a column in Forbes. Well, the Times Company’s market capitalization may now be down to $585 million, but according to well-informed...

By David Donadio • Feb 21,2009

Jefferson Davis’ house slave was a key Union spy

What a great story. Check it out on CNN. (Hat tip: BC)

By David Adesnik • Feb 21,2009

Need a stimulus? Get a lobbyist.

Doublethink and Conventional Folly are angling for some of those blogosphere infrastructure funds. But first we need some seed money to hire a lobbyist. AP: Melanie Sloan, executive director of...

By David Adesnik • Feb 20,2009

NYT: McCain chaste and faithful

Remember the supposed affair John McCain had with a lobbyist? The NYT now says it never meant to imply any such thing. I guess we all misread the story.

By Nicole Kurokawa Neily • Feb 20,2009

America’s New Hero

Wow. Obama beats out Jesus as America’s hero

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 20,2009

Remaking bad movies

I’d like to offer a quibble to Mr. Polansky’s argument against the remake of “Friday the 13th,” in which he writes: The original wasn’t remotely frightening, and moreover it represented...