http://www.flynnfiles.com/ en-us dan@flynnfiles.com 2010-07-30T00:19:19-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/pop_culture2010/radio_kinks_.html I've blogged my appreciation for the underappreciated Kinks in the past. Original bassist Pete Quaife's recent death provides an excuse to do so again. Except this time, I will let the music of the Kinks, rather than my words, do... 3486@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ pop culture 2010-07-30T00:19:19-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/media2010/treason.html "Whoever broke the confidentiality of the list obviously has no respect for some pretty basic journalistic norms," explained a poster on Journolist, the online discussion space for liberal journalists outed by The Daily Caller. But the suspected Wikileaks leaker, Bradley... 3485@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ media 2010-07-28T09:46:01-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/media2010/the_medias_birthers.html I heartily second Colorado Republican Ken Buck's observation that those questioning Obama's Hawaiian birth are "dumbasses." As I discussed last year in "The Meeting at the Grassy Knoll Behind WTC7 to Discuss Obama's Birth Certificate Is Called To Order," conspiracy... 3484@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ media 2010-07-27T09:41:33-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/articles2010/a_racist_is_somebody_who_is_winning_an_argument_with_a_liberal.html "A racist is somebody who is winning an argument with a liberal," or so goes a popular bumpersticker slogan. The Tea Partiers and the backers of Arizona's new law curtailing illegal immigration can attest to the wisdom inherent within that... 3483@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ articles 2010-07-26T08:45:27-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2010/the_profligate_president.html The Obama administration announced that this year's deficit will be larger than last year's record-breaking defict, and next year's deficit will be larger than this year's record-breaking one. To put this in perspective, more than 40 percent of this year's... 3482@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ politics 2010-07-26T00:42:00-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2010/youre_hired_youre_fired_youre_hired_.html Barack Obama makes Hamlet look like a model of decisiveness by comparison. After engineering the resignation of Department of Agriculture worker Shirley Sherrod, the White House apologized and offered her a new job. Don't blame them. Blame Fox News. That's... 3481@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ politics 2010-07-22T10:56:10-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/culture2010/crossing_a_rubicon.html Amazon reports that it sold more eBooks than hardcovers in the last quarter. It's tempting to compare this to the moment in the late 1980s when CD sales outpaced traditional vinyl. But this is much bigger than that. Reading off... 3480@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ culture 2010-07-20T08:57:46-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/sports2010/swatted.html "There's no way, with hindsight, I would've ever called up Larry (Bird), called up Magic (Johnson) and said, 'Hey, look, let's get together and play on one team,'" Michael Jordan told NBC yesterday. The former Chicago Bull star explained that... 3479@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ sports 2010-07-20T00:52:51-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/articles2010/the_naacps_racist.html The NAACP has so promiscuously hurled charges of racism at political opponents, like the Tea Partiers, that it has devalued the term. But decades ago, when the NAACP really stood for fighting discrimination and not merely for pushing a political... 3477@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ articles 2010-07-19T00:01:08-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/articles2010/green_retreat.html Remember when Newsweek lambasted skeptics of man-made global warming as "the denial machine" in an infamous cover story that even their own writers ridiculed as propaganda? Well, just three summers later, the weekly has changed its tune. And as my... 3476@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ articles 2010-07-17T00:00:09-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/articles2010/unplugged.html The more connected we are through technology the less connected we are to other human beings. So argues William Powers in Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. Read my review @ City... 3478@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ articles 2010-07-16T17:52:04-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/pop_culture2010/summer_music.html Are you listening to any good new music? If so, I want to hear about it in the comments section. It's Friday, and here's the good new music that I am listening to: Band of Horses--Compliments Delta Spirit--Bushwick Blues Brandon... 3473@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ pop culture 2010-07-16T10:38:06-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/pop_culture2010/over_the_hills.html I caught the final episode of the passe pop-culture phenomenon "The Hills" last night. Having not watched the MTV show in its six season run, my decision may seem a little confusing. But as a loyal viewer of "Laguna Beach,"... 3475@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ pop culture 2010-07-14T11:01:40-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/politics2010/no_confidence.html Six in ten Americans lack confidence in their president to make the best decisions for their country. The news gets worse for the majority party in Congress: six in ten Americans profess an intention to vote against the incumbent this... 3474@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ politics 2010-07-13T09:56:26-05:00 http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/dan_flynn2010/big_announcement.html I am now a regular columnist for Human Events.com. My articles will generally appear every Monday, but I urge the readers to visit the site on other days, too. If you are not familiar with Human Events, it is a... 3471@http://www.flynnfiles.com/ dan flynn 2010-07-13T00:03:58-05:00