A Message From Lucianne
 Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy
|
|
Steven Brill Likens Chris Hughes
To A Drunk College Newspaper Editor
New York Observer, by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:FlyRight, 2/22/2013 7:42:58 AM
|
| Today, Time magazine published “Bitter Pill,” Steven Brill’s 36 page cover story on America’s health care system. But the 24,000 word piece, which is the longest article by one writer ever published in the magazine, was originally going to be the cover of last month’s relaunched The New Republic, reports Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone. And Mr. Brill has no kind words to say about TNR‘s editor in chief and Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes,
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner, 2/22/2013 8:22:34 AM (No. 9190336)
Wow! They discovered that liberals lie! Revelation!
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Adam, 2/22/2013 8:27:10 AM (No. 9190346)
All of these people deserve each other. Brill is a miserable S.O.B. in real life, Anita Dunn is a Madison Avenue flack who thinks Chairman Mao (a worse mass murderer than either Hitler or Stalin) is a man to be admired and emulated, it goes on and on. Yuck! I am so glad I am not associated with folks like them any more.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hermoine, 2/22/2013 8:51:03 AM (No. 9190395)
Wow, go wiki Chris Hughes and his "husband" Sean Eldridge. These are the "young" people who are literally wreaking havoc on our dear country. They are narcissistic multi-millionaires following in the footsteps of George Soros.
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Donna M, 2/22/2013 9:08:57 AM (No. 9190430)
TNR´s been irrelevant for decades.The nice thing is that TNR will drain Hughes´ bank accounts very quickly. #2, Brill´s track record since CourtTV has been miserable as well--CLEAR (pre-approved pass through airport security) was a major fail, in a close to no-brainer market, because it didn´t work in practice. It might have been different if he had a few experienced travel industry operations and marketing people on board, but he was ´rewriting the book´, and you know how that can go.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Donna M, 2/22/2013 9:15:40 AM (No. 9190453)
And as a marketer/communicator in healthcare, I doubt that Mr. Brill has anything new to say, beyond what´s been said for years. (Yes, our healthcare system is breaking down, technological disruption at all levels never had a chance to be absorbed and put into workflows due to this regime´s meddling, and it´s gonna get worse, folks.)
The fact that Time gave 24,000 words to this jerk is also quite telling--that they no longer have in-house writers with anything to say. Henry Luce is now ´Spinny´ -- as in spinning in his grave.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/22/2013 9:17:19 AM (No. 9190461)
How naive of Brill. Where´s he been all these years.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rusino, 2/22/2013 9:39:12 AM (No. 9190515)
I read only the first two pages of Time, BITTER PILL, it made feel like throwing up!
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 2/22/2013 11:20:47 AM (No. 9190770)
I gotta get a parakeet
So I can line the cage with the New Republic
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vuulfie2, 2/22/2013 3:26:44 PM (No. 9191295)
#9
Your new budgie will not be pleased.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
sixtiesdude, 2/22/2013 10:01:12 PM (No. 9191751)
Aw, cripe. Now I have to go out and buy a parakeet! Just so I can line his/her cage with: LA Times, Chicago Trib, NYT .. how many rags can one man subscribe to????
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "FlyRight"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "FlyRight"
|
Benghazi Continued: Investigation
of a Citizen Above Suspicion
|
|
PJMedia, by Roger Simon
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/6/2013 6:49:14 AM
Post Reply
|
|
That CBS’ Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, of all people, nodded in agreement when Rep. Darrell Issa asserted on Schieffer’s Sunday morning show that the administration had engaged in a cover-up regarding Benghazi is a huge sign that this scandal is finally being taken seriously by the most traditional establishment liberal media.This is bad news for such über-establishment figures as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but they are politicians who come and, alas eventually, though it seems to take forever, go.
|
| |
|
The Last Refuge From Scandal?
Professorships
|
|
New York Times, by Ariel Kaminer
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/5/2013 11:52:46 AM
Post Reply
|
|
After a sex scandal forced Eliot Spitzer from the governor’s mansion in Albany, he turned up at City College, teaching a course called “Law and Public Policy.” After another sex scandal forced James E. McGreevey from the governor’s mansion in New Jersey, he turned up at Kean University, teaching in the global M.B.A. program. David A. Paterson, who as governor of New York tried to intervene in an assault case against an aide, taught at N.Y.U. after his term ended.
|
Obamacare is on the horizon,
but will enough people sign up?
|
|
Reuters, by David Morgan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/5/2013 7:33:26 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Reuters) - Healthcare reform should be the signature Democratic achievement of President Barack Obama´s presidency.But with "Obamacare" five months from show time, Democrats are worried about whether enough Americans will sign up to make the sweeping healthcare overhaul a success - and what failure might mean for Congress heading into the 2016 presidential race. Some of the law´s main advocates fear that not enough of America´s 49 million uninsured will know about health coverage offered in their own states.
|
Explosions shake Damascus,
Syria blames Israel
|
|
Reuters, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/4/2013 8:58:26 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Explosions shook Damascus early on Sunday and Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military research center on the outskirts of the capital.The blasts occurred a day after an Israeli official said his country had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria. The research center hit on Sunday was also targeted by Israel in January."The new Israeli attack is an attempt to raise the morale of the terrorist groups which have been reeling from strikes by our noble army,"
|
Friend tells different story of life of
woman who reappeared after 11 years
|
|
CNN News, by Laura Smith Spark
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/4/2013 6:46:38 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The tale of Brenda Heist, the Pennsylvania mother who abandoned her two children only to turn up in Florida 11 years later, has taken another unlikely turn. On Saturday, she remained jailed on a Santa Rosa County warrant for alleged violation of probation, forgery and giving a false name to law enforcement, said Art Forgey, a spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff´s Office. Heist, who used the assumed name Kelsie Lyanne Smith, is awaiting extradition, Forgey told CNN affiliate WJXT. She turned herself in Friday. Heist, meanwhile, may not have spent most of those 11 years homeless,
|
Israel launches second airstrike in
Syria, targeting weapons shipment
|
|
Washington Post, by Liz Sly & Suzan Haidamous
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/4/2013 6:20:06 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Beirut - Israeli warplanes have attacked a shipment of missiles at Damascus International Airport that was bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, officials from the United States, Israel and Lebanon told reporters Saturday.The attack Friday coincided with mounting pressure on the Obama administration to formulate a response to the growing risk of weapons proliferation in the Syrian war, notably the possibility that chemical weapons are being used in the conflict and could fall into the hands of extremists. It also came amid renewed reports of sectarian violence in the northern coastal region
|
| |
|
Keynes Was Gay — Not That
There’s Anything Wrong with That
|
|
National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/4/2013 5:56:10 PM
Post Reply
|
|
There’s a brouhaha a-brewin’ over comments by Niall Ferguson at an investor conference. Ferguson suggested that because John Maynard Keynes was gay, effete, and childless he might have lacked concern for posterity. After all, Keynes famously proclaimed ”in the long run we’re all dead.” In a nigh-upon hysterical and terribly written item, Tom Kostigen of Financial Advisor says Ferguson took “gay-bashing to new heights.” He adds, “Apparently, in Ferguson’s world, if you are gay or childless, you cannot care about future generations nor society.” Now, I don’t know exctly what
|
The ‘pay to grieve’ 9/11 museum
is a national disgrace
|
|
New York Daily News, by Sally Regenhard
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 5/4/2013 8:03:16 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Family members of of 9/11 victims, are upset that the museum will charge as much as $25 per person. The world’s most expensive memorial — the National September 11th Memorial and Museum — nearly became a fiscal flatliner, it was learned this week. If it weren’t for billionaire mayor and 9/11 memorial-museum chairman Mike Bloomberg’s “loan” of $15 million, the $700 million museum would have been history before it opened.Now, the world will find out what some of the more dogged 9/11 family members have known for years:
|
AP Omits ´Muslim´
from Obama WHCD Joke
|
|
Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Warner Tood Hunter
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 4/28/2013 5:27:18 PM
Post Reply
|
|
In some of its reports on Saturday night´s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press failed to include one of President Obama´s own gags. AP strangely left out the word "Muslim" in one of Obama´s self-referential jokes. Early in his comments on April 26, President Obama made reference to his young life with a joke and a visual image projected on the video screen. The President joked that everyone loves Michelle and mentioned that she has even appeared on magazine covers. The President said he also appeared on one and showed a mock magazine cover
|
|
Twitter Shows Its Rude Side
|
|
New York Times, by Henry Alford
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 4/28/2013 7:26:59 AM
Post Reply
|
|
What accounts for the galloping lushness of bad manners on Twitter? A recent incident may shed some light. When Bill Clinton appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television show in early April, Mr. Colbert expressed surprise that he didn’t have a Twitter feed. Mr. Clinton said he didn’t tweet because he’s “sort of insecure.” So Mr. Colbert set up an account (@PrezBillyJeff) and had the former president dictate his first tweet to him. Mr. Clinton added that he was worried he would attract no followers, saying, “There’s nothing worse than a friendless tweeter, right?”
|
|
Surveillance’s dark downside
|
|
New York Daily News, by James Warren
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 4/28/2013 7:15:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Admit that you were transfixed by surveillance video of Boston’s brother bombers. It was quintessential “Gotcha!” for the noblest of causes. Testament to technology trumping wrongdoing, it gave cause for relief. Knock on wood, too, that the cops could track the cell phone left in the Mercedes SUV hijacked by one bomber. And those Google Maps aerial shots of the boat were pretty neat, right? The same technology, of course, can catch your everyday non-terrorist running a red light, parking illegally at a Dunkin’ Donuts or smooching with someone not your spouse.
|
| |
|
New York Times
vindicates Andrew Breitbart
|
|
Politico, by Kevin Robillard
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: FlyRight- 4/27/2013 7:01:26 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Conservative bloggers cheered The New York Times on Friday for a 5,000-word investigative report dissecting abuse of a federal program to compensate farmers who had faced discrimination that writers on the right said vindicated the work of one of their icons — the late Andrew Breitbart.“Today Andrew Breitbart is smiling, and probably amazed,” the Washington Examiner’s Byron York wrote on Twitter. “New York Times goes deep into Pigford scandal.” (Snip) “I wish to God that Andrew Breitbart were alive to see this,” Stranahan wrote. “He fought this fight for years, was totally right and never
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Obama´s Demeaning
Commencement Address
|
|
American Thinker, by Janice Shaw Crouse
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: DW626- 5/10/2013 6:54:38 AM
Post Reply
|
|
As a presidential speech writer for the first Bush White House, I am always very interested in what presidents say in their formal speeches. They know, of course, that their remarks will be widely covered by the press, studied by analysts, and influential in contemporary political debates. For that reason, presidents rarely speak off-the-cuff, and their every word is carefully chosen for exactly the message the White House wants to convey to the public. Their graduation speeches, like all presidential addresses, go through many drafts and are reviewed by high-level administration officials
|
Latino student group says eating
tacos is offensive to Mexicans
|
|
Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. The letter was sent to students via e-mail, and published in The Daily Northwestern last week. Leaders of Alianza, a Latino student group, and the Associated Student Government called on students to remember that Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. It is not a day to throw a sombrero-themed party, they said.
|
Exclusive: Benghazi Talking
Points Underwent 12 Revisions,
Scrubbed of Terror Reference
|
|
ABC News, by Jonathan Karl
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/10/2013 6:54:20 AM
Post Reply
|
|
When it became clear last fall that the CIA’s now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the document were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story. ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensive edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
|
White House hopes under fire
|
|
Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:37:55 AM
Post Reply
|
|
She weathered Whitewater. She made it past Monica ?Lewinsky. Now Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat the rap on Benghazi and make it to the White House. The Clinton political machine is in full campaign mode already, preparing for 2016 and hoping voters forget by then that she had a key role in the Obama administration’s handling of the terror attack. But that’s becoming more difficult as the GOP appears to be laying the groundwork for tying Clinton to Benghazi and making sure it stays front and center in the next campaign.Some of the testimony from State Department whistleblowers
|
Pelosi: Sequestration Preventing Me
from Visiting Troops on Mother´s Day
|
|
Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/10/2013 5:55:08 AM
Post Reply
|
|
"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."
|
Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
|
|
Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.
|
John McCain Wants to
Blow Up The Cable Industry
As We Know It
|
|
Business Insider, by Jay Yarow
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/9/2013 1:19:00 PM
Post Reply
|
|
John McCain is going to release a bill that would dismantle cable as it´s currently constructed, Brenden Sasso at The Hill reports. The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called "à la carte programming," and it´s long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. McCain tried to introduce similar legislation in 2006 and it went nowhere.
|
Report: Muslim cleric invited
to pray over fallen SEALs
damns them during service
|
|
Washington Times, by Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 5/9/2013 6:23:57 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 shoot-down of a helicopter in Afghanistan spoke at a press conference Thursday morning, citing a number of grievances, including an allegation that the Pentagon invited a Muslim cleric who “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.” In addition to blasting the Obama administration for the mission and for an official investigation they deemed a cover-up, the families complained that “military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen
|
IRS Apologizes for Targeting
Conservative Groups
|
|
Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM
Post Reply
|
|
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election
|
Carney Blames Romney for
Politicizing Benghazi
|
|
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/10/2013 9:49:16 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney blamed Mitt Romney and Republicans for “politicizing” the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Harkening back to a Mitt Romney press conference on September 12, 2012, which addressed the Benghazi attacks only in passing while focusing instead on the assault on the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Carney suggested that Romney had tried to target the innocent Obama administration for telling the truth about Benghazi. “Republicans, again, in this ongoing effort that began in the hours after the attack when Mitt Romney put out a press release to try to take political
|
Let Benghazi´s Chips Fall
|
|
Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/9/2013 9:27:45 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has written House Speaker John Boehner, requesting the creation of a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terror debacle. It is an excellent idea. A Select Committee is the only means available now for the U.S. political system to extricate itself from the labyrinth called Benghazi. There have been two fulcrum events in the accounting of what happened in Benghazi. The first was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice´s September 16 declarations on TV that Benghazi was part of the Islamic world´s violent, spontaneous reaction to the incendiary California YouTube video.
|
Priest conducts Catholic
service to name 45 aborted
babies found in Gosnell clinic
|
|
Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: mitzi- 5/9/2013 7:19:50 PM
Post Reply
|
|
A Catholic priest presided over a service Thursday to give proper names to the 45 babies whose bodies were found in the West Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He is charged with killing five people - a patient and four viable babies that prosecutors say were born alive. He has also been charged with performing late-term abortions that violate Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit on the procedure. “People have names, people deserve names. The name expresses the person. The name recognizes that there is a person there.” said Father Frank Pavone during the
|
| | |
|
