Tag Archives: Weekly Standard

Weekly Standard: Factchecking The Factcheckers

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff freely admits that we’ve often relied on sites such as FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker to question the campaign ads currently swarming the TV airwaves like gnats at a summer barbecue. But we also … Continue reading →

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Ads ‘n’ Ends From The Massachusetts Congressional Races

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Once around the Public Garden, James, and don’t spare the horses. Sean Bielat: Hits and Missus Fourth Congressional district repeat candidate Sean Bielat (R-I Won’t Be Frank) has launched his first TV spot in the race against Joe Kennedy III … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Kennedy III, John Tierney, Richard Tisei, Scott Brown, Sean Bielat, Stephanie Ebbert, Weekly Standard | Leave a comment

Healing Waters For Disabled Vets

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

In the wake of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s admirable exposé of the disgraceful Disabled Veterans National Foundation fundraising scam, it was nice to see this piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal about Project Healing Waters, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to … Continue reading →

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Quote o’ the Day (Paul Ryan Edition)

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Now that GOP Great White Hope Mitt Romney has tapped Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Hey, Privatize This), lots of folks are bookmarking Ryan (!) Lizza’s recent New Yorker profile of the Ayn Rand acolyte. But it’s also worth taking a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ayn Rand, Crystal Ball, Larry Sabato, Mitt Romney, New Yorker, Paul Ryan, privitize, Ryan Lizza, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

Cass Sunstein And The Obama Nanny State

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

There was plenty of hoopla yesterday as the news media reported the departure of Cass Sunstein from the White House Office of Information an Regulatory Affairs, which is sort of the hall monitor of Capitol Hill. From the Boston Globe: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Ferguson, behavioral economics, Behavioral Journalism, Boston Globe, Business Roundtable, Cass Sunstein, New York Times, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health Wealth and Happiness, Obama Nanny State, Weekly Standard, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | 1 Comment

The Making (And Faking) Of Barack Obama

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk: David Maraniss’s new biography, Barack Obama: The Story, has spawned any number of stories about Obama’s story of his formative years. An excerpt from the book in the Washington Post is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Ferguson, Barack Obama, Barack Obama: The Story, Ben Smith, Buzzfeed, David Maraniss, Dreams from My Father, Free the Ben Smith One!, Jonathan Karl, Wall Street Journal, Washington Heights, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

Boston News Media Miss Harvard Law School’s Naming Student Center After “Tax Cheat”

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk: Several weeks ago the Weekly Standard ran an item (sub. req.) that began this way: Edifice Complex On April 20, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan returned to her old stomping grounds in Cambridge, Massachusetts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Caspersen Student Center, Edward S. Harkness, Elena Kagan, Finn Caspersen, Harvard Law School, Harvard Unbound, Weekly Standard | 3 Comments

Two Different Worlds (Chevy Volt Edition)

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

(First in a series of posts detailing the separate universes the liberal media and the conservative media inhabit.) From Joe Nocera’s latest New York Times column about the “conservative propaganda machine” mocking the Chevy Volt hybrid (“containing both a 400-pound battery … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Bob Lutz, Car Wars, Chevy Volt, Joe Nocera, New York Times, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover (II)

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Because the hardworking staff is a noodnik, we failed to note in a previous post about the Weekly Standard’s leasing its March 26 cover to the National Federation of Independent Business, that the NFIB is lead plaintiff in the lawsuit (National … Continue reading →

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The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Imagine the hardworking staff’s surprise when the March 26 edition of The Weekly Standard arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters and we saw this: (Apologies for the amateur cellphoto.) That’s the first of a four-page ad wrapper for the National Federation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged National Federation of Independent Business, New York Times, NFIB, ObamaCare, Weekly Standard | 5 Comments