Myrna Blyth, the former editor of Ladies Home Journal and self-described 'only republican in women's publishing' has been named editor-in-chief of something called Betty Confidential—a site which describes itself as "Your Best Friend. Only Better"—according to a release.
Ms. Blyth maintains a blog called Blyth Times and writes a column for The Read More
Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, has responded to Christopher Buckley's announcement on Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast that he was "fired," as the story's URL shows, or "sacked," as its headline read until it was recently changed to "Buckley Bows Out of National Review." (Buzz moves fast, and as Read More
Felix Gillette talks to Griff Jenkins, Fox News' man on the mean streets of St. Paul: "Roughly a week earlier, Mr. Jenkins had waded into the protestors in Denver without the aid of a security crew. Things had gotten entertainingly ugly (YouTube-worthy ugly), and now his bosses were insisting on precautions."
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The party he’d just held there was breaking up, and he was talking to a reporter about President George W. Bush as Jay Nordlinger and Claremont Institute fellow and Read More
National Review editor Rich Lowry posted a brief indictment Wednesday of the editors at The Washington Post's Book World for deciding not to review a recently published book about the run-up to the Iraq war by former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith. The book, War and Decision, came out from Harper on April 8, Read More
Sorry again for the delay. Here's a very late and severely abbreviated Morning Read. Iowa Democrats start the chatter that Hillary will back out of the race if Barack Obama jumps in: something Hillaryland dismisses. In National Review Online, Rich Lowry explains "The genius of Obama is that he has a pure liberal Read More
The National Review likes Eliot Spitzer's stance on public money for private schools. Hilllary Clinton's support of an upstate company's use of recycled car tires has lead to a warning about pollution in the early presidential primary state of New Hampshire. ReformNY looks at Nick Spano's condemnation of alleged voter intimation tactics. Read More
Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course.
That is the inner Rudy, parading himself at an Inner Circle dinner; please, give us the outer Read MoreA couple days ago I did my most successful item, counting by serious comments: about the vanishing progressive Jewish presence in public life, from my viewpoint as an assimilating Jew. Later that day I opened my email to discover a message from a "John Podhoretz." It was titled "Look Out!" I don't know John Read More
Is Condi Rice's warm-and-fuzzy opening to Iran, after President Ahmedinejad's man-to-man letter to President Bush, a signal of a sharply soft turn in an Administration desperate to shore up public trust, not just in Europe but in the U.S.A.? I think so. The Secretary of State came off as lovely, thoughtful and transparent in interviews Read More
Michael Novak on National Review Online perpetuates the false claim that The Da Vinci Code is the product of secularists. But people who want to reinterpret Christ aren't secular; they want to believe, and find meaning in their lives, but in new ways. As for secularism, here is a neat definition from Nathan Read More
This is the online news cycle: John Podhoretz already has a couple paragraphs up at the National Review's blog, The Corner, with his take on John Spencer's suggestion that KT is a Hillary pawn. I assure you the Clintons don't care a whit about what's happening in the imploded New York state Republican Read More
The New Republic has a new group blog, The Plank, that seems modeled on National Review's The Corner, only lefter, and is off to a funny, confrontational start. Here's their invitation to procrastination.
For the first time in more than 40 years, a Catholic politician is about to be nominated for President on a major-party ticket. He's a Democrat, of course, since the Republicans still haven't gotten around to nominating anyone who isn't a white Protestant male.
Yet if modernity, despite all its blinding speed, has not yet Read MoreAll decent people sympathize with the people of Madrid, but New Yorkers can speak with knowledge. The two things to remember are: You will not get over it, and you will get over it. Whenever one reality seems to win, the other will come back.
It was appropriate that the jihadists struck during a rush hour-appropriate Read More
