Tag Archives: Weekly Standard

Quote o’ the Day (Military-Industrial Complex Edition)

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From Ted R. Bromund’s Weekly Standard piece on the Yankee Air Museum at Ford’s former Willow Run plant in Michigan: At its peak in 1944, Willow Run produced a B-24 Liberator bomber every 55 minutes, for a wartime production run of 8,685 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arsenal of Democracy, B-24 Liberator, Ted R. Bromund, Weekly Standard, Willow Run | Leave a comment

Quote o’ the Day (Hanlon’s Razor Edition)

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From David Skinner’s Weekly Standard review of Steven Pinker’s new book, The Sense of Style. Where Pinker breaks ranks with most enemies of tendentious writing is on the question of motive. He cites Hanlon’s razor—“Never attribute to malice that which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Skinner, Hanlon's razor, Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

The Arts Seen in NYC (Central Park Edition)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town over the weekend and say, it was swell . . . weather. It’s not so much that what we caught at the museums was bad. But what we caught outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Act One, Andrea Martin, Belvedere Castle, Bill Cunningham: Facades, Central Park, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, Cindy Sherman, Daniel Goodman, Editta Sherman, Gauguin: Metamorphoses, Guggenheim, Italian Futurism, Jewish Museum, Jonathan Galassi, Judith Thurman, Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art 1948–1988, MAD, Masterpieces and Curiosities: Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant, MOMA, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, New-York Historical Society, Re:Collection, Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, Strawberry Fields, The Black Fives, The Met, Tony Shaloub, Weekly Standard | 4 Comments

To Know Trump (BuzzFeed Buzzsaw Edition)

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The Donald got blowtorched by BuzzFeed last week and, man, it was sweet. Nut graf: [Donald] Trump can no longer escape the fact that his political “career” — a long con that the blustery billionaire has perpetrated on the country … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Buzzfeed, Donald Trump, Frank Rosario, Fredric U. Dicker, McKay Coppins, Mike Allen, Mitt Romney, New York Post, Pat Buchanan, Politico Playbook, Roger Stone, Rudi Guiliani, Sam Nunberg, The Donald, Weekly Standard | Leave a comment

DEATH AND SELFIES: Digital Media And The End Of Mortality

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

It’s the latest cultural tut-tutchstone: Everyone’s clucking about Selfies at Funerals, a Tumblr page that delivers exactly what it promises. Here’s a representative sample: The site is the brainchild of Jason Feifer, a senior editor at Fast … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fast Company, Find a Grave, Find a Grave Store, Huffington Post, I-Memorial, I-Postmortem Ltd., I-Tomb, Jason Feifer, Jezebel, Joseph Epstein, Selfies at Funerals, Tumblr, tut-tutchstone, Twitter, Ubergizmo, VirtualTomb, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

Rick Perry Wants Your Business Right Now (And Your Vote In 2016)

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Oops) has been traveling this great nation of ours trying to cheery-pick businesses in blue states to migrate to the Lone Star state. And generating national media coverage in the process. From the Weekly Standard in June: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloomberg Businessweek, California, cheery-picking, Ferrari, Illinois., New York, Rick Perry (R-Oops), Rick Perry groupie Fred Barnes, Texas, Weekly Standard | 3 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (John Keats Edition)

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Poet desk Several weeks ago Michael Dirda wrote a review in the Weekly Standard of John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe. It starts out this way: Poet of Loss Dead at 25, Keats … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a blush for having done it, John Keats, John Keats: A New Life, Michael Dirda, Nicholas Roe, Weekly Standard | Leave a comment

NYT’s Cruise To Nowhere

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From Politico’s Playbook: N.Y. TIMES GOES CRUISING: A full-page ad in Friday’s Times offers a “European Cruise” from Oct. 12-24 (England to Paris to Bordeaux to Spain to Portugal) with Elisabeth Bumiller talking defense, Timothy Egan talking opinion and David Sanger … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Sanger, Elizabeth Bumiller, European Cruise, New York Times, Politico Playbook, The Nation, Times Journeys, Timothy Egan, Weekly Standard | 3 Comments

Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (ChuckHagel.com Edition)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Aggressively Nay) battles his way to Secretary of Defense, one skirmish he’s already lost is control of his domain name. Home page of ChuckHagel.com: ChuckHagel.com happens to be the exclusive province of Weekly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Candy Crowley, Chuck Hagel, ChuckHagel.com, CNN, Emergency Committee for Israel, secretary of defense, Weekly Standard, William Kristol | 4 Comments

What We Caught In The Big Town

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town for most of last week, and here’s a taste of the arts seen there. Wednesday After an uneventful, if costly, drive to the City (seriously – they’re raising the extortionate … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, Boston Globe, Ellen Barkin, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, Frick Collection, George Bellows, Guggenheim, Madeleine Martin, Mare Cunningham, Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Museum of Arts and Design, New-York Historical Society, Picasso Black and White, Picnic, Portrait of a Peasant, Regarding Warhol, Rosalind Russell, Sebastian Smee, Sebastian Stan, The Art of Scent, The Met, The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, The Whitney, Vincent Van Gogh, Weekly Standard, William Holden, William Inge, WWII & NYC, Yale University Art Gallery | 4 Comments