Why the criticism and mockery of Clint Eastwood will backfire.

Obama supporters are straining to nullify Clint Eastwood's GOP convention performance, but it's not going to work. Take, for exampl...

Michael Moore thinks people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'"

Interesting, not really intended so much a prediction as a cynical remark about campaign finance. But that's not why somebody emailed me...

"Our whole society is based on... making women nod."

Video found after a search for "making women nod" — which I knew was a longstanding Bill Maher theme — which I got the idea to do ...

The NYT presents liberal fear-mongers as if they were intelligent, sober critics of Republican policy.

Monica Davey, reporting for the NYT from Madison, Wisconsin, looks at why "Many Workers in [the] Public Sector [Are] Retiring Sooner...

"South Park" takes on Occupy Wall Street.

Here , watch the whole episode, "The 1% Solution." Or just check out the part with Michael Moore: 1% Get More: SOUTH PARK Eric Car...

Anti-Semitism at the Occupy Wall Street protests?

Power Line, with a video clip, says: Given the extraordinary media attention that was paid to fictitious claims of racism at Tea Party ralli...

"They have taken our democracy and formed it into a 'kleptocracy.'"

Michael Moore explains the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in NYC and incites viewers to take the protest to their local bank: "...

"I think the President was trying to keep us from finding out, so we all wouldn't freak out."

Chantal Guerrero , one of the children in the classroom where President Bush was reading "My Pet Goat" on September 11, 2001. Guer...

"There is a McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero. Trust me, McDonald's has killed far more people than the terrorists."

Michael Moore weighs in on the near-Ground-Zero mosque.

"With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics."

Disillusioned cynics ≈ realistic skeptics. I don't see the problem.

Charlton Heston, "remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo."

Goodbye to one of the all-time great movie stars, Charlton Heston, who has died at the age of 83. When I read "remembered chiefly for ...

"I guess Al qaeda haven't figured out how to set up a facebook profile yet. I want Osama himself to message me his death threat, that'd be wicked."

Someone impersonates Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Facebook and fools a lot of journalists: [T]he author a...

"Poverty and Prostitution."

The NYT profiles Massoud Dehnamaki, whom it calls "Iran's Michael Moore": Reformists and conservatives alike harshly criticiz...

Hitchens on "The Daily Show" and in The Weekly Standard.

Did you see Christopher Hitchens on "The Daily Show" show this week? It was a rather strange little interview in which Jon Stewart...

"Earnest tomes."

Here 's a review of Alan Wolfe's "Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover...

Time's Person of the Year.

Hasn't it been leadenly obvious for the past two weeks that George Bush will be Time Magazine's Person of the Year? But Time ran a p...

Remember the President who won two wars?

A dialogue from the future (perhaps): Remember the President who won two wars, who overthrew two of the most repressive dictatorships in the...

Sharon Stone! Caroline Kennedy! In Madison!

Phone call of the night goes to a recorded call from a woman general (name forgotten) from some organization not officially connected to the...

Disrespecting the W.

The Badger Herald (one of the student papers here at UW-Madison) reports on Michael Moore's "Slacker Uprising Tour," which hi...

A big game and a big windbag.

Here 's the local newspaper's coverage of the big game last night, when the Badgers beat the Boilermakers. But not all Madisonians w...