Not to diminish your work, Jimmy P, but you may as well have titled your article, “New study suggests the very same thing all the old studies — not to mention our own eyes and ears and experience — suggested, namely, that the job numbers the government puts out are manipulated, that the press who reports them are either corrupt or illiterate (and most certainly incurious), and that people have

First, the left will never ever stop.  Ever.  This you know, and this you’ve read me write about here for like, ever. But disturbingly, what we’re seeing now is a kind of very cynical politicization of grief that goes beyond grief into something else:  a desire to exact revenge against anyone, in any way, for actions committed by someone very specific, in a very specific way. And nowhere is this

Okay, so April having been tax month, I can understand the financial prioritizing by readerthat translated into a rather quiet month on the pw fundraising front.  But now that the stock market is going wild, and the economy is finally taking a dramatic turn for the better, as ABC News assures me every day it has — it’s Summer of Recovery, Episode 4:  Return of the ‘For the Children! —

For years now I’ve brayed helplessly (though with quite a bit of outside help contributing to my helplessness,, if one counts omission as an overarching narrative ploy) about “conservative” opinion leaders who aren’t driving a “conservative” agenda that isn’t by way of promoting “conservative” candidates who never were and “conservative” policies which never were and most certainly never will be. But the political winds may be shifting as full-throated conservatives

Apologies for those of you who follow my Twitter feed, for whom this will prove redundant. But the story needs a broader audience, and since tens of millions of people online remain doggedly insistent on not following me, I’m going to post it here, as well: “U.S. Had Assets That Could Have Saved U.S. SEALs”: A special operator has come forward to Special Report on Fox News as a whistleblower

Newsmax: NBC News is reporting that attorneys for accused Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are discussing a possible deal in which federal prosecutors might consider waiving the death penalty in exchange for a “full accounting” of the attack that left three people dead and 264 people injured. Citing legal sources, correspondent Pete Williams reported on “NBC Nightly News” that prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev “have begun very early discussions

Fine. But did it draw “assault weapons”? Because if not, there’s simply not a lot of political capital to be had from highlighting it. And if it can’t be exploited for political gain, it didn’t happen. Sorry, but those are the rules. Everything else is just the railing of bigots trying to “politicize” “tragedy.” — Although I have been informed that AG Eric Holder will be on high alert, looking

My name is Jeff Goldstein. I’m not black — though I’ve seen a few such people on my teevee, and in the summer I can work up a really nice tan — but I am a non-practicing Jew originally from a deep blue east coast state. And I’m a proud supporter of the TEA Party. There. Allow my words to sweep over you. Like a wave. Moving fluidly to shore.