Honestly, why do people still sound so surprised by this? The mainstream press in this country — as Jeff Jarvis happily advocated years ago — no longer believes itself responsible for “reporting” the news, a task they feel is a kind of cultural stenography, and as such, far beneath both their talents and ambitions. Instead, they fancy themselves activists of sorts, and the role of the journalist, per Jarvis, is

This one from Tiffany Reynolds Richardson, a functionary for NC Democrat Elaine Marshall. Ms Richardson writes: Dear Jeff, There are a lot of politicians trying to cozy up to Occupy Wall Street – but very few are actually hitting the streets to stand with them. That’s why I’m proud to be working for Secretary of State Elaine Marshall – someone who hasn’t just embraced the OWS protests, but has actually

So far, Congress hasn’t responded by impeaching Obama, then firing itself — though that’d likely be the best way to meet his demand.

“Charlie Daniels blasts Justice Department, suggests political persecution against Gibson Guitar.” After which he threw back a sixer of Schlitz, slayed a couple of bureaucrats with a particularly savage new fiddle riff, then chatted up a few opry honeys. God bless him.

You bet your ass I am, bitch. Spread the word.

NY Magazine: All occupiers are equal — but some occupiers are more equal than others. In wind-whipped Zuccotti Park, new divisions and hierarchies are threatening to upend Occupy Wall Street and its leaderless collective. That’s the ostensible thesis — and we as conservatives/classical liberals are supposed to take great pleasure from the confusion of the rabble’s “movement” — but in reality, let me propose that what is happening here (and

Amazingly, those commentators who have spent the last 3 years or so decrying the “extremist right’s” insistence on “purity” tests (and were early adopters of a Mitch Daniels candidacy, Daniels having famously counseled that the GOP leave aside social issues) have just recently become very very concerned with Herman Cain’s positioning on certain key questions important to social conservatives — the latest being, where does Cain stand on the issue

1. “Obama Admin Defends $529 Million Taxpayer Loan To Company Building Electric Cars in Finland” 2. “White House backs Biden’s rape, murder remarks” 3. “White House defends its record on poverty” 4. “DOE Continues to Thwart Solyndra Investigation” 5. “LightSquared refuses to release communications with White House” 6. “ABC Spikes Tapper’s Fast and Furious Question to Obama but Makes Time for Exchange on Children’s Books”

NYP: President Barack Obama will announce Friday that the US will completely withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, FOX News Channel reported. Obama is expected to make the announcement at a 12:45 p.m. White House press briefing. Obama held a video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki earlier Friday. “Today the president will announce that we will fulfill our commitment and complete the drawdown

Meh. What’s a few rapes if, in the end, the message of Che Guevara is able to find its voice in a handful of puppets somewhere in some community playhouse in Minnesota?