from this week’s New Yorker
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The Pentagon No Longer Awards This Medal
Amazing how much has been forgotten since this 1988 New Yorker cartoon…
The Media’s Attitude Towards Government Surveillance
This 1990 New Yorker cartoon perfectly captures the usual media attitude towards government surveillance in the post-9/11 world. Happily, today’s Washington Post blockbuster does not show the same complacency.
What the FBI Does Best
It is unfortunate that few of the nation’s editorial writers have ever understood the FBI as well as Handelsman did within weeks after 9/11…..
Davi Barker: A Libertarian Rebuttal – 24 Types of Authoritarian
Davi Barker has put together a very amusing retort and parody to the 24 Types of Libertarian cartoon by Barry Deutsch. Davi Barker’s blog is here.
Cartoon: 24 Types of Libertarian
Biased but very funny…. from cartoonist Barry Deutsch: [h/t Lew Rockwell blog]
Washington Post Drops One of its Best Reporters: Dave Weigel out
Washington Post blogger David Weigel is out after someone exposed some emails he sent to a private group in DC criticizing Matt Drudge, the Washington Examiner, etc. Weigel reportedly offered to resign last night and the Post accepted today. I don’t always agree with Weigel, but he is one of the hardest working journalists I […]
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