Robert Wright’s idiocy is truly a sight to behold.  For those of you who don’t know who he is (and I don’t blame you), he’s the editor-in-chief of a blog nobody reads and a weekly online opinion columnist for a pathetic newspaper in decline.  Despite his irrelevance, I think it’s important to point out his [...]

My friend John Hawkins has a smart post today with suggestions for how to succeed in blogging. Here are his first 3 tips:
#1) Network: Blogging IS NOT just a good old boys club, but that doesn’t mean networking doesn’t help. If someone is deciding whether to link your article or a similar article, liking you [...]

So, I started doing a weekly podcast with Caleb Howe of RedState called The Needle. If politics were drugs, this show would be the needle!
Episode 2 aired today and we cover topics discussed here at NewsReal, particularly in The Feminist Hawk’s Nest:
Wherein Lori Ziganto and Caleb Howe make their triumphant return for episode two! [...]

I’m not a fan of sex-scandal speculation.  Bringing salacious charges against a public figure is an easy path to major media attention (“The Washington Post reported last week that [accuser Molly] Hagerty was looking for $1 million to tell her sordid story”), and such accusations don’t tell us anything meaningful about the accused unless we [...]

Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, has been playing coy during her Senate confirmation hearings.   Contrary to her call in a 1995 article for judicial nominees to be more forthcoming about their views, she has been hiding behind the usual smokescreen of avoiding answering any questions [...]

Outpost (“OP”) Restrepo. Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. 2008. A film still from the documentary RESTREPO by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Image © Outpost Films
“Restrepo,” a feature-length documentary, is as exciting and suspenseful as any summer blockbuster out there. More than that, it’s important that it be seen. The film follows a platoon of [...]

In his book Son of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef says, “I am the son of a people who have been enslaved by corrupt systems for many centuries” (p. 248). One of those corrupt systems, in his view, is the Israeli government: “I was a prisoner of the Israelis when my…

Yeah, I don’t think that’ll be a problem for long…
Regular readers may recall my coverage of the Ann Coulter Riot in Ottawa a few months back. (I know: we’re having so many riots up here lately, Canada’s poised to lose its Most Boring Nation Triple-A status.) In case you’ve forgotten what happened when Ann Coulter [...]

On Fox News, Leon Panetta, the present Director of the C.I.A., spoke about Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Muslim with American citizenship who, though born and raised in the United States, now from his perch in Yemen inspires other Muslims to commit acts of terrorism against Americans. Panetta noted that Al-Awlaki “had…

Abetting Terrorism = “Free Speech”? by John Perazzo In a 6 to 3 decision last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law that makes it a crime for Americans to provide “material support” of any kind – be it in the form of cash, weaponry, training, personnel, services, or “expert advice or assistance” – [...]