Copyright 2010 David Forsmark Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:02 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss David Forsmark :: Writings http://www.davidforsmark.com dforsmark@comcast.net (David Forsmark) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/03/foreign-terrorists-deserve-representation-but Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:25:24 EST Under Stalin—and the Soviet system in general—someone who fell into disfavor by the ruling Party could become a "nonperson." They weren't just thrown out of power or persecuted, it was as though they did not exist. While MSNBC hosts pay a lot of... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/03/opponents-of-government-health-care-are-sub-human Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:04:57 EST Coming soon to a Tea Party near you? A week ago Keith Olbermann slandered the Founders by falsely claiming… OLBERMANN: Not very many of the founding fathers were evolved enough to believe that black people were actually people. But this week, Olbermann... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/democrat-plan-to-jail-interrogators-for-being Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:47:30 EST Baghdad Jim's attack on the CIA was smacked down by Pete Hoekstra yesterday. While most of the politically aware public, and all of the news organizations, were focused on the Obama/Republican Health Care Summit, radicals in the House of Representatives... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/some-of-my-best-guests-are-black-meltdown-with Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:23:28 EST Just here to make you feel better about yourself, Keith. Last week, Keith Olbermann stepped in it with a race-baiting rant that accused the Tea Parties of being racist because they are supposedly white people "surrounded by people who look exactly like... http://www.davidforsmark.com/6975/intellectuals-and-society Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST George Orwell famously said some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool. Thomas Sowell has made a career out of debunking those very things—most famously elite assumptions about racism... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/chris-matthews-goes-jay-walking Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:15:00 EST One of Jay Leno's funniest bits on the Tonight Show is when he goes trolling in Hollywood for people who know nothing about America. They don't know what country we fought to be independent from, what century the Civil War was in, etc. MSNBC commentator... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/where-are-the-people-of-color-in-msnbcs-lineup Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:49:20 EST I once did a lot of freelancing for a daily newspaper called The Flint Journal, whose editorial pages regularly and vociferously called for "affirmative action." They were located in a majority black city, but very often they had few black writers and... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/worst-research-in-the-wooorrrrllld-meltdown-with Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:37:08 EST Hey, Keith, this is not a rifle! In his latest great Bob Lee Swagger thriller, I Sniper, author Stephen Hunter has a character state sarcastically, "Someone once defined a newspaper gun story as 'something with a mistake in it.'" You'd think that if... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/tea-partiers-are-like-the-founders-racists Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:48:54 EST Attention Tea Partiers! Keith Olbermann has finally admited that you have chosen appropriately in identifying with the Founders. You DO have something in common with the people who established our nation. You are all racists. OLBERMANN: And I know... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/obama-holder-right-on-cell-phones-wrong-on Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:28:17 EST Civil libertarians are all a-twitter today because the Obama Justice Department argued that it was fine for the FBI to check cell phone records to look for common numbers placed at the time and location of a string of bank robberies. The arguments... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/citizen-ebert-rogers-culturally-illiterate-tweets Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:39:22 EST As someone who was a working film critic for nearly 20 years—and, I'm pretty sure, the only Baptist to win 2 Catholic Press awards for movie reviews—I probably owe Chicago Sun Time film critic Roger Ebert (and his late partner Tribune critic Gene... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/dumb-dumber-wolffe-olbermann Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:25:12 EST Meltdown with Keith Olbermann, Part 32 ♦ Constant Countdown guest and obsequious suckup, Richard Wolffe, along with host Keith Olbermann last night proudly declared themselves to be less sophisticated than — Sarah Palin. Either that or they showed they... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/once-upon-a-honeymoon-andrew-sullivans-obama-love Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:38:08 EST Andrew Sullivan, who once wrote the essential politically incorrect essay, "What's so bad about hate?" to refute the idea of codifying "hate crimes," is ironically now the poster child for what can be so bad about love—blind love, that is. The press... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/02/the-final-countdown-meltdown-with-keith-olbermann Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:14:54 EST Remembering this self-deluding rant last year when Bill O'Reilly dared to mock Keith Olbermann's ratings? OLBERMANN: I hate to intrude with the facts, but ours is the highest rated cable news program [among] viewers 35 and younger, and the highest rated... http://www.davidforsmark.com/2010/01/wishful-thinking-chris-matthews-says-we-are-like Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:14:51 EST Hey, Chris, here is one way we are not like the French! Barack Obama tried unsuccessfully last year to turn America into a European-style social democracy—and the American people didn't like it. Now, Obama is facing the backlash from trying to push the...