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Thanks to all of you, my new novel, Early Warning, is in stores now, as well as on Kindle. It’s the sequel to last year’s thriller, Hostile Intent, which went to No. 1 on Kindle upon its debut, sat high

08/19/2010 AP Advisory AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque

Thanks to all of you, my new novel, Early Warning, is in stores today, as well as on Kindle. It’s the sequel to last year’s thriller, Hostile Intent, which went to No. 1 on Kindle upon its debut, sat high

The other half of the Huntley-Brinkley team, his impish grin and cheerful twinkle never belied the seriousness of the news he reported — although his liberal tendencies could never really be in doubt: Good night, Chet. Good night, David. The

Technically speaking, the Kennedy Center is not Congress, but the building — a monument to the first Roman Catholic president — is federally supported. Luckily, this story has a happy ending. But how many ordinary Americans have a microphone or

Gunga Dan himself, of “Kenneth, what is the frequency” fame. His eager, credulous acceptance of the faked Bush Texas Air National Guard memos brought an end to a career that began with the sheer luck of the Kennedy assassination and

Here’s everybody’s favorite Clinton-era apparatchik/hack masquerading as a “newsman,” George Stephanopoulos, starting the Obama drumbeat early and often. Let the shilling begin! Shame on Steffi, and worse shame on ABC for employing a political operative and trying — unsuccessfully, thankfully

The great Joel Kotkin, peerless observer and chronicler of the nation’s urban and municipal woes, takes on the Golden State and wonders: what the hell happened to what was once the nation’s greatest state. The answer will not surprise you:

Part saint, part hack, all fifties guy. Don Draper, call your office.

Reporters may think they’re being objective and balanced when they first report and then write a story, but those of us who know the racket can spot a rigged stuss game every time. It’s not just a matter of what

My friend and thriller-writing colleague, the great Andrew Klavan, writes in City Journal: Take the e-mails that the Daily Caller obtained from the now-defunct lefty Web service Journolist. Never mind the personal or psychological implications of a radio producer who

Q. The name of your new book is To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. Are things really that dire? Yes. America is not merely a genetic or geographic identity. Our country was founded upon a set of principles clearly

Just yesterday I wrote: For a Chicago pol, whose path to prominence came not via intellectual brilliance or personal charisma but through behind-the-scenes machinations to get opponents thrown off the ballot or have their sealed divorce records made public, “by

You know things are really starting to go south for the Obama administration when its journalistic functionaries and spear-carriers on the left are starting to openly fret and worry as they begin to feel November’s chill wind blowing. The visions

The David Weigel saga continues to stagger on, becoming ever more intellectually incoherent. Not only has Weigel written yet another story about himself, this time for Esquire, but Ezra Klein of the Washington Post — the man who recommended Weigel

It’s one of the most iconic images of America’s greatest city: Edward Hopper’s moody, evocative ode to the City That Never Sleeps: “Nighthawks.” But did the lobster-shift diner shown in Hopper’s most famous painting ever exist? That’s the subject of

And now there are Four. Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart’s fourth “Big” website, Big Peace, launched, fittingly born on the Fourth of July. Editor-in Chief Peter Schweizer, a scourge of liberal mendacity and hypocrisy, is joined by the redoubtable Frank Gaffney and

Some lessons never get old, and there’s always a new generation in need of hearing them. [youtube qXBswFfh6AY&feature nolink]

It’s been a pretty remarkable week, news-wise and media-wise, and to say the two are related would be an understatement. We’ve seen the lid finally blow off the long-simmering Al Gore sex scandal, which certainly serves to explain the otherwise

And so it ends, not with a bang but a Tweet: Larry King, a fixture at CNN since God Almighty was a pup, has announced he’s ending his show in the fall. According to Variety: Here’s what he said at

Complaint_1 – It’s the stuff thrillers are made of: our old friends the Soviets are back, this time calling themselves Russians, but up to their same old tricks: infiltrating the United States with “illegals” — sleeper agents who can pass

By some ironic twist of fate, the Senator from the Ku Klux Klan has died on the same day the Supreme Court — by a distressingly narrow 5-4 ruling — affirmed that the Second Amendment is incorporated, via the 14th

Now that the media has embraced its inner partisan, expect to see a lot more of this behavior: What happens when you combine juvenile snark with the loss of professional standards? Now you know.

The Washington Post‘s David Weigel has resigned in the wake of a series of leaked emails, in which the blogger disparaged various figures in the conservative movement he was “covering” in his official capacity as the Post‘s point man on

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words: Edith Shain, the nurse in one of the great iconographic photographs of World War II, as shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died today at the age of 91.

One of the principal problems with American journalism these days is not simply its ideology, its ignorance or its even outright bias. Rather, it’s its uncritical acceptance of the worst of the left’s philosophical structural framework. Exhibit A is this

Finally, the MSM has thought to survey commenters to learn just why they write what they write and, more important, why they write under the cloak of anonymity. From boston.com, the web site of the Boston Globe: At many of

Andrew Klavan on media lies, Al & Tipper’s split, global warming and much, much more: [youtube 3S3kkecy1Kw nolink]

You knew this was coming. From the New York Post: Ted Turner must be flinging his remote at the wall in despair. CNN, the cable network he founded, is poised to turn its prime-time schedule over to two disgraced public

[youtube JnhbrAt8mFo nolink] Remember that “settled science” that Laurie David’s alleged married boyfriend was forever prattling on about? Well, surprise, surprise… according to the National Post‘s Lawrence Solomon, it turns out that it’s not so settled after all. The IPCC

Yes, it’s true: the most famous graduate of Cornell Cow College has picked up his marbles and is leaving the Daily Kos liberal lunatic asylum/playpen, hurt feelings trailing in his wake. It seems that, in the aftermath of his less-than-enthusiastic

[youtube v60oNUoHBYM nolink] Amazing… what has happened to North Carolina? Shame on you, Bob Etheridge. There you are, walking down the street, when two polite young men pop up and shove video cameras in your puss and ask you sweetly

How quickly it all happened: five years ago, and certainly ten, the idea that the daily newspaper would no longer be part of our morning routine would have seemed unthinkable to the majority of Americans. And yet, in retrospect, it

The question is meant only half-facetiously, of course. Under the current rules of engagement between the media and politicians, it is never right to punch a reporter. Treat him or her with contempt, dripping condescension, sarcasm, obfuscation, hostility, Heep-ish like

Or something like that. That headline certainly makes as much sense as this deranged PC-rant from National Progressive Radio by way of the ancient leftist publication The Nation: “Why the Far Right Hates Soccer,” by Dave Zirin. Just when you

What is it about Sarah Palin that drives the left nuts? They hate everything about her, and yet at the same time they can’t stop talking about her. Like a succubus, she haunts their fever dreams, visits them in their