Commentary - America's Future

By David Adesnik • Feb 05,2009

Ouch

David Broder (not exactly a conservative): Even when the White House belatedly learned of Daschle’s tax troubles, it misjudged the political fallout. Despite the glaring contradiction between Obama’s proclaimed ethical...

By David Adesnik • Feb 05,2009

The funniest thing about Obama’s op-ed…

…is that the WaPo felt it necessary to include a line at the end that says “The writer is president of the United States.” Yes, I know it’s standard practice...

By David Adesnik • Feb 04,2009

Surgeons remove woman’s kidney through her vagina

The southern route for donating a kidney. Wow.

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Obama administration manhandles General Zinni

Why is the Obama administration having so much trouble staffing up its foreign policy team?

By David Polansky • Feb 04,2009

My story

Thinking about the novels of Anne Rice, while drafting that last post, led me to realize just how pervasive gratuitous sex is in the world of genre fiction. Ms. Rice...

By David Donadio • Feb 04,2009

Will satellite time even be necessary in 10 years?

Another quick brain dropping in the media transformation department: a friend invited me to the Reuters TV studio for the filming of America Abroad Media’s latest U.S.-Pakistan telecast, which featured...