Archives for October, 2009

Saturday’s big news is that liberal Republican Deirdre Scozzafava has dropped out of the race for an upstate New York House seat. Scozzafava, under pressure from a third party candidate, did not want to place third and become a kingmaker for her ideological peer, Bill Owens. Without a wedge in the Republican base, the race [...]

Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly can be an irritant to all with his bombastic populism, but he remains the most popular cable news figure. Still, people should think twice before siding with him or believing he sides with them. O’Reilly is both a conservative and a collectivist, but never a freedom lover. A recent diatribe [...]

In the great tradition of Washington’s solving vaporous problems, Congress is moving on Net Neutrality legislation, while the FCC is also working on the very same issue with an eye to regulate and eventually strangle free speech on the internet. Net Neutrality, for those who have better things to worry about, is a proposal for [...]

Not so much a retraction, but just an apology, Shout Bits seems to have gotten the wrong impression of John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO. Yesterday, Reason.TV posted a must see interview with Mackey in which he displayed his libertarian bonafides. A prior Shout Bits entry accused Whole Foods of being a pile of BS, and [...]

Back in December 2008, this blog predicted that Sec. Hillary Clinton would never run for the White House again (Secretary Clinton). The entry suggested that Clinton’s window of opportunity had closed and that Secretary of State would be the highest office she could ever expect to hold. Today, CNN is reporting that Clinton has acknowledged [...]

White House administrations should study the tight lipped Norwegians when it comes to media blackouts. A bombshell like Pres. Obama’s Peace Prize could never be kept secret in Washington. Friday’s announcement was the type of surprise that in retrospect makes so much sense that it is a surprise that it was a surprise. Well, no [...]

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion. We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe. – Harvey Weinstein This blog already opined on the Polanski issue over a year ago, yet Hollywood’s ability to [...]