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Jason Linkins

The Less Shocking Photo That The Weekly Standard Doesn't Want Its Readers To See! [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.14.2012

Back in the day, you could typically count on the Weekly Standard to produce long and complicated arguments designed to build the case for getting the...

Michael Calderone

Message To Young Conservatives: Pursue Journalism

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.13.2012

WASHINGTON -- While Republican candidates score points slamming the media from the stump, prominent conservatives, gathered in Washington D.C. for the...

Obama Sics Media On Romney

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.26.2012

Dan Kennedy

The media are having no problem decoding the not-so-secret message from last night. Obama wants us to know that Mitt Romney is what the president's new role model, Theodore Roosevelt, would have called a "malefactor of great wealth."

Grumpy Conservatives Survey Post-Iowa Scene

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012

Dan Kennedy

The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."

PolitiFact and the Limits of Fact-Checking

Dan Kennedy | Posted 02.12.2012

Dan Kennedy

Perhaps the biggest lie of all is that fact-checking can act as some sort of short-cut to the truth.

Sam Stein

DNC Whacks The Weekly Standard

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Weekly Standard put up a blog post on Thursday questioning why, at a time when the White House was pushing for humility following Os...

Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Jackson Williams

Let's by God hear it for cowboy decision-making! We've taken over Iraq, and already we're scaring other Muslim potentates into submission. It's that easy.

It's The Overused Headline, Stupid

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

"It's the economy, stupid" is a phrase that has lived on longer than anyone would have expected.

Gaffemaster Steele's Greatest Gaffe (So Far)

Michele Langevine Leiby | Posted 05.25.2011

Michele Langevine Leiby

William Kristol has finally said what we've all been thinking but were either too indulgent or PC to say: Michael Steele must go.

Conservative Magazines Thriving Under Obama While Liberal Magazines Suffer

Vanity Fair | Matt Pressman | Posted 05.25.2011

What about the conservative magazines? The most prominent and biggest-selling, The National Review, definitely seemed to experience an Obama-hatred bu...

Another Assault on the SOLE Food Movement

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Kurt Michael Friese

Causing no end of difficulties in our national discourse is the steadfast belief held by both the right and the left that everything is either right o...

How Does it Feel to be Praised by Bill Kristol for Critiquing Corporatism in the Democratic Party?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

Miles Mogulescu

In our roles as objective political analysts, Kristol and I foresee the same results from a corporatist-dominated Democratic Party. Of course as political partisans, Kristol sees it with glee and I see it with dread.

The Rio Games -- And Those GOP Games

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Rick Horowitz

Why was the GOP so elated with Chicago's Olympic failure? Was it the joy in avoiding the inevitable cost overruns? The security concerns? Or was it enough that Obama had failed?

Dem Staffer Apologizes For Shoving Weekly Standard Reporter

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

As you may have heard, a Dem staffer helping the Martha Coakley campaign was caught on video shoving a Weekly Standard reporter in Massachusetts, prom...

Refuting the Latest Arguments Against Gay Troops

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Nathaniel Frank

Defenses of the military's gay ban have long been rooted in the moral belief that homosexuality is wrong, but its champions cast their defense of the policy in terms of the famous "unit cohesion" rationale.

Sarah Palin's Slap Shot

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Jacob Heilbrunn

The truth is that Sarah Palin's current and most immediate struggle isn't against President Obama or the Democratic party or even liberals. It's against the GOP itself.

The Right Goes for Another Round of Latina Bashing

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 05.25.2011

Mario Solis-Marich

Republican Senators not tired of Latina bashing have set their sights on Obama's nominee for Ambassador to El Salvador -- Mari Del Carmen Aponte.

Conservatives ... You Can't Handle the CBO!

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Scher

Conservatives are straining to claim that the plain English version of the Baucus bill is completely meaningless. Which is, of course, all nonsense.

Searching for a Minyan: Our Response to Being Censored by J Street

Kevin Coval | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Coval

Some right-wing blogs and pseudo-news organizations have churned the alarmist rumor mill about the J Street conference. What is disappointing, and troubling, is J Street's response: caving.

Stanley Kurtz Tries to Tie Gay Marriage to Divorce, Accidentally Proves Opposite

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Barrett Brown

Ten years after Denmark began allowing for gay civil unions, heterosexual marriage rate had increased by 10.7 percent. Ten years after Norway did, the rate increased by 12.7 percent. For Sweden, 28.7 percent.

Philip Anschutz, New Weekly Standard Owner, Brings New Brand Of Conservatism To Magazine

New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 05.25.2011

The new ownership comes at a time when conservatism, especially the version espoused by The Standard involving American muscularity to spread freedom ...

Honduras Coup: Conservatives Rally Behind "Coup For Democracy"

UN Dispatch | Posted 05.25.2011

The Weekly Standard calls it a "Coup for Democracy." The National Review, "A Counter-Coup." But Ciff Kincaid wins the award for most unhinged reaction...

Palin, The Press, and Her "No Mas" Moment

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Eric Boehlert

How can it be the so-called liberal media's fault that Palin gets bad press when conservatives were out front giving Palin bad press?

The GOP's Palin Food Fight: Why Now?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

William Bradley

This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.

The Weekly Standard Owes Me a Correction (I'll Wait)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Eric Boehlert

How difficult is it to send a Weekly Standard "reporter" to a National Press Club event and then assume that "reporter" can accurately quote what people said at the event?