2006-08-30
New Orleans Times-Picayune Reporters, Editors Win Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy
Reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy. The award’s previous winner was former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, who engineered what became known as the “Memogate” (aka Rathergate) hoax, [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Nicholas Stix @ 2:47 am | 0 views2006-08-28
Another Sunday Night without Mike Francesa
Sports guru Mike Francesa has a problem. How to delicately put this? He’s a Yankees-Sniffer.Francesa hosts Mike’d Up: The Francesa Sports Show in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut (“tri-state”) area, on NBC affiliate WNBC, immediately following the 11 O’Clock News.
In previous seasons – the show has been on the air since 2003 – Francesa’s baseball malady [...]
2006-08-25
N.Y. Times to Duke Rape Hoax Victims: Drop Dead
Today’s New York Times carries a story by Duff Wilson and Jonathan D. Glater, “Files From Duke Rape Case Give Details but No Answers.” The story seeks desperately to cover for accuser Crystal Gail Mangum and for DA Mike Nifong, and early on draws the following conclusion, which seems more appropriate to an [...]
Comments (12) Filed under: Vox Populi — Nicholas Stix @ 4:37 am | 25 views2006-08-23
Bruno Kirby: Rest in Peace, Pal
Character actor Bruno Kirby died on August 14 of leukemia at the age of 57, according to an announcement by his wife, actress Lynn Sellers.
Born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, the son of actor Bruce Kirby (who was best known for playing Bassett hound-faced Det. Sgt. Kramer on the original Columbo), and brother of acting coach John [...]
2006-08-20
The Future of The American Conservative, and the Future of American Conservatism
Is The American Conservative magazine finished, and if so, what does that bode for the future of American conservatism?
Over the past month, multiple well-placed sources in and close to The American Conservative (TAC) have variously informed me that: TAC is shutting down imminently; TAC’s bosses are sending out mixed signals, and will shut [...]
2006-08-18
I Pledge Allegiance, to Transational Elites, and to the Post-Nation …
“What is a transnational elite to me?” It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it?
Let’s try a different way: “What is America to me?”
That’s better.
What’s in a Word?
Notice that Earl Robinson and “Lewis Allan’s” (Abel Meeropol’s) song, “The House I Live in” does not refer to “the United States,” a usage [...]
2006-03-19
Liberal Media Bias and Republican Eunuchs
by Nicholas Stix
There’s a new blog in town, by Matthew A. Roberts: The Politics of Prudence. I hope the title is just for show, since there are already too many “prudent” Republicans writing.
Roberts’ first article was originally published at David Horowitz’ Web site, Front Page mag: “The Decline of Mainstream Media.” Roberts cites a [...]
2006-02-26
Bushbots for Dubai
By Nicholas Stix
In what may yet prove to be George W. Bush’s Waterloo, our fearless leader has succeeded at uniting political enemies from both sides of the aisle in opposition to his plan to let a company owned by the United Arab Emirates take control of America’s largest ports.
The UAE, as President Bush has pointed [...]
2006-02-22
The 14 Percent Solution to Globalization
By Nicholas Stix
Many Americans are unhappy about globalization, but globalization gurus are unequally unhappy with those Americans, whom the globalizers see as Luddites who are fighting the inevitable. Apparently, there are iron historical laws which decree that Americans (except for globalizers, natch) must spend, say, $200,000 on undergraduate and graduate education, as a requirement to [...]
2006-02-09
Brokeback Mohammed
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Latest Update: 2:32 a.m., Monday, February 13, 2006
In the news:
The National Endowment for the Arts has granted $100,000 to artist
Andres Serrano to create an art work to be called “Piss Mohammed.”
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The Brooklyn Museum will sponsor an exhibit by British artist Chris Ofili, in which the Prophet Mohammed is covered in [...]
2006-01-07
Sundariah Ramrakha (1930-2006)
By Nicholas Stix
On Saturday, Sundariah Ramrakha died of renal failure at the age of 75 in Princes Town, Trinidad. Mrs. Ramrakha is survived by her husband of 55 years, Ramrakha Ramrakha, by one son, six daughters, twelve grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Although Mrs. Ramrakha’s husband and children traveled halfway around the world in variously seeking work [...]
2006-01-04
Israel’s Sharon Finished as PM, Gravely Ill
By Nicholas Stix
Israeli Prime Mininster Ariel Sharon yesterday suffered a massive stroke and a cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding inside or on the brain). He will no longer be able to function as prime minister, and even if the 77-year-old survives, according to one health professional familiar with such conditions, he may not even be able to [...]
2005-12-31
Breaking News: NYC Cop Saved by Civilians
by Nicholas Stix
UPI has just reported that a New York City police officer who was being beaten by a man in the subway was saved by two men who happened to be in the vicinity. There was no word yet on the sex or ethnicity of the officer-victim, or on the ethnicities of the attacker [...]
2005-12-30
AOL’s Feminists Strike Again
by Nicholas Stix
Who can turn a porn queen into a “ditzy ingenue”? AOL, that’s who!
And no, I’m not writing a hackneyed send-up of “Mame.”
Anyone who is an AOL customer gets the company’s “news” inserts and pop-up ads whenever he tries to read his e-mail. Thus, he lives in a world in which “ditzy ingenue” is [...]
2005-12-27
Support VDARE!
by Nicholas Stix
In this holiday season, you are being deluged by scam artists seeking to fleece you for what they claim are “charities.” Have you gotten your yearly call, for instance, from the guy who claims to be collecting donations to give to the widows and orphans of policemen murdered in the line of duty? [...]
2005-12-25
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah to my readers around the world!
Nicholas Stix
2005-12-20
Transit Strike in New York!
By Nicholas Stix
At 3 a.m., Roger Toussaint, the president of the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU), representing 34,000 New York City subway workers and bus drivers, announced that his union has decided to strike against the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the state agency which administers the city’s subways and public bus lines. All subways and trains presently [...]
2005-12-19
New York’s Grinch and His Reporter
by Nicholas Stix
As of 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, New York city’s first transit workers strike in 25 years is officially on!
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What would you call someone who would destroy the Christmas of a city of eight million people, plus a few sundry million suburban commuters and shoppers, if the state authority that pays [...]
2005-12-17
Illegal Alien Pair Terrorize Midwest
by Nicholas Stix
Have you seen Jorge Ibarra, 34, and Rosa Ramirez, 41? If so, do not call the Illinois State Police or even the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the aforementioned agencies will refuse to enforce the law. And don’t contact the pro-illegal immigrant mainstream media. Rather, contact Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim [...]
2005-12-14
Rosa Parks and the New York Times
By Nicholas Stix
Two of the most celebrated photographs of the 20th century were staged. The first was the 1950 Robert Doisneau picture of a handsome young French couple “spontaneously” smooching, while the second was a 1956 photograph of Rosa Parks riding in a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a well-dressed, apparently 35-40-year-old white man (actually, he was [...]
