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The New York Times knows that the Nobel Prizes, like the Pulitzers, can be awarded for political advocacy. So writer Bill Wyman has decided to push for an unconventional pick for the Nobel Literature Prize: hippie favorite Bob Dylan. The headline was "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Nobel's Door." Stating the obvious, he admitted “Mr. Dylan is no Solzhenitsyn, but he is a figure who genuinely…

The author's knowledge of literary devices is exposed, and many of the plot devices to move this season along are examined.

An upcoming CNN documentary about Hillary Clinton has been canceled. The show's director, Charles Ferguson, made the announcement at the Huffington Post two hours ago.

Even a radical leftist like Seymour Hersh thinks the media are obsequious toward President Obama. In an interview with the leftist U.K. paper The Guardian, Hersh said "It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy." Hersh claims the Obama administration "lies systematically," yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles…

The list of things on which Barack Obama has been wrong goes on to the crack of doom.  But there's one thing on which the President is surely right. In devising his strategy for dealing with the shutdown, the prez can count on the MSM to blame Republicans. Mark Halperin bared the president's calculus on today's Morning Joe, saying the Obama admin has little incentive to negotiate because it…

Via LifeNews.com, we learn that movie star Sandra Bullock feels the adoption of her son Louis has changed her entire worldview: “Work was my life before. Now I have no reason to leave home.” Some of have suggested Bullock was inspired by her part in "The Blind Side" to adopt Louis (born in New Orleans), but she's said it was a long-planned decision. She enjoys motherhood so much she told…

Google News really needs to work on its results counter. The first page of its 10:15 p.m. search listings on [Obama "widespread evidence"] (typed exactly as indicated between brackets) tells us that there are "about 90 results," but moving to the second page of listed results shows there are only 11 (technically 13, because the first listing on the first page has three items). Those sparse…

Conservatives might say Sen. Ted Cruz did well today in his debate with NBC’s David Gregory, the “Meet the Press” host. It sounded like a debate, not an interview. In his most obnoxious sentence, Gregory lectured Cruz that his 21-hour speech was a complete flop: “You haven’t moved anyone.” This, from the man who is so talented at persuasion that The Huffington Post reported “a trying few…

Overheated and intellectually dishonest statements this weekend revolving around the impending government shutdown have not been limited to politicians in Washington, or even to pundits and commentators. Saturday at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, Josh Lederman, in a "Spin Meter" story, falsely claimed that Obamacare opponents believe that the law will mandate the…

As a blogger, I subscribe to the email lists of some organizations whose goals I do not, shall we say,  necessarily embrace.  Among them is Organizing For Action, the successor to the 2012 Obama campaign.  As you can imagine, although I read OFA's messages with interest, I don't succumb to its frequent appeals for funds. You might think OFA might let me loaf along in peace, but no.  Just now…

In defiance of reality illustrated in numerous polls, on Sunday’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer scolded Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn when she correctly asserted “there is only partisan support” for ObamaCare. Schieffer cut her off: “Well now Congresswoman, that’s not entirely true. The polls don’t suggest that. Polls say that most people favor it.”

The Washington Post said happy Sunday to Christians with an article titled “Five Myths About Jesus” by Muslim author Reza Aslan. First question: How likely is the Post to run a feature by Aslan or anyone else titled “Five Myths About Muhammad”? Or “Five Uncomfortable Truths About Muhammad”? The second question is: Couldn’t the Post have published the article “Five Myths on Reza Aslan’s…

Chris Matthews has a new book out about his former boss the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill. Despite this, the MSNBC host was made a fool of on Sunday's Meet the Press by Tea Party Congressman Raul Labrador (R-Id.) concerning how many times the government was shut down when O'Neill ruled the House (video follows with transcript and commentary):