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Warrior for the word Camille Paglia slams bloggers and trendy academics for degrading language -- and calls for a passionate revival of the great artistic tradition of the West. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Kerry Lauerman April 7, 2005  |  Camille Paglia's first major work since "Sexual Personae," the 1990 bestseller that cracked a bullwhip over the heads of dogmatic feminists and a p.c. academe and turned its author into our favorite provocateur, appears, at first glance, to be a surprisingly demure offering. "Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads 43 of the...

The Founder of Salon Is Passing the Mouse By DAVID CARR avid Talbot, a pioneer of online journalism who founded Salon magazine in 1995, will announce today that he is stepping down as the magazine's editor in chief, chief executive and relentless cheerleader. He will be replaced as editor, he said, by Joan Walsh, his longtime deputy. Salon will also announce its first profitable quarter in its history, Mr. Talbot added, a profit of $400,000 on revenues of $2.2 million. The company also said that Elizabeth Hambrecht, Salon's president, would become its chief executive. Salon has its headquarters in San...

Your biggest fan! I had just left the CNN set when I was handed a letter from a lawyer saying his client would soon be charging me with rape. My life, and assumptions about sex scandals, would change forever. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Tucker Carlson Sept. 13, 2003  |  It was June 2001, and I had just gotten off the "Crossfire" set when one of our producers handed me a stack of mail. On the way to the elevator, I glanced at it. On top of the pile was a registered...

Salon gets new round of financing By Carolyn Pritchard, CBS MarketWatch.com Last Update: 5:48 PM ET March 28, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Salon Media Group said Friday that it completed an additional round of financing, allowing it to continue operations while it works to become profitable. The owner of online magazine Salon.com also announced that it now has more than 60,000 paid subscribers, up from 47,000 at the end of 2002. The current round of financing, which totaled $800,000, was led by existing Salon investors Bill Hambrecht and John Warnock, a Salon board member. Including this round, the firm...

Nothing Personal - - - - - - - - - - - - Trading places Bobby Brown poses as a schoolmarm, Val Kilmer as a prude. Plus, J.Lo gets dissed on TV. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Nov. 12, 2002 | Talk about blowing it on national TV. Fox News anchor Shepard Smith had something fairly egglike on his face last week when he launched into what should have been a straightforward item about tension between Jennifer Lopez and her old Bronx neighbors. "J.Lo's new song 'Jenny From the...

KRISTOL GOT $100,000 FROM ENRON: Bill Kristol emails to clarify that he was on the Enron advisory board for two years “I believe,” for what would be a total of $100,000. That makes Kristol the biggest Enron pundit beneficiary so far. And the sum wasn’t disclosed until today, so far as I know. The web spreads. Who else was on the board? Did any pundits get more than Kristol? Stay tuned ... - 6:20:06 PM

- - - - - - - - - - - - While Clinton diddled The record doesn't lie. The former president had repeated warnings and wake-up calls, but he failed to protect the country against the growing danger of Islamic terrorism. Part 1 of a debate. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Andrew Sullivan Jan. 9, 2002 | To raise the question of former President Bill Clinton's record on terrorism in the wake of Sept. 11 is to invite a chorus of disapproval. For bringing the subject up, you will be ...

The sick mind of Noam Chomsky "The most important intellectual alive" is a pathological ayatollah of anti-American hate -- and the leader of the treacherous fifth-column Left. - - - - - - - - - - - - By David Horowitz Sept. 26, 2001 | Without question, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation's grave crisis -- the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America's right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle ...