You Get What You Pay For – Open Thread

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 28th at 10:49 AM  | 

Last August, the Washington Post sold Newsweak Newsweek magazine for a buck to a 91-year old stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman, who also assumed the periodical’s debt. Three months later the Daily Beast merged with Newsweek. The cheap purchase price from the Newsweek buy has allowed the Daily Beast to entice Andrew “Excitable Andy” Sullivan, the “conservative” pot-smoker and “expert to the masses” on all | Read More »

Obama and Guns: The WTF Edition

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  January 27th at 03:51 PM  | 

Newsweek has a story that indicates the Obama administration may start pushing gun control. Apparently, gun control groups were not one bit happy that the President failed to mention anything about guns during the SOTU, which the White House says was intentional to avoid the appearance of trying to capitalize on the Tucson tragedy. But not to worry. The administration’s “never let a crisis go | Read More »

Statists Still Don’t Get They’re The Problem; Sarah Palin Edition

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  November 18th at 08:58 AM  | 

You heard that right, folks, statists don’t get that they’re the problem when it comes to sexism and racism. Oh they like to say they stand up against those things; but even when they appear to do so, it usually falls so short as to appear farcical. Case in point, Salon harridan Joan Walsh tries to take Newsweek to task for the sexist cover with | Read More »