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February 8, 2018
Border Bike Trip Day 15: What We Saw in Ciudad Juarez
We arrived in Janos late in the afternoon and parted ways with Sanchez, the truck driver who gave us a lift, after a quick dinner of enchiladas...
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Uncertainty in House as a New Government Shutdown Looms
Lawmakers in the Senate are expected to pass a bipartisan two-year budget deal ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadline when it comes to a...
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Democrats Won Another Special Election in Trump Country. Should the GOP Be Worried?
On Tuesday, Missouri Democrat Mike Revis won a special election for the state’s 97th House District, barely flipping a district that Donald Trump...
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Do Newly Released Texts From FBI Agents Imply Obama Interfered in the Clinton Email Investigation?
The release of additional texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page has some outlets reporting that the messages implicate President...
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The Substandard on Hostiles, Westerns, and Solo
On this week’s episode, JVL continues to bask in the glow of a Super Bowl victory. But how about those Super Bowl ads? What to make of Solo? Your...
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Afternoon Links

Steal, Eagles, Steal! If your team hadn't won a title in 58 years, wouldn't you steal a chair? This Eagles fan (read: NOT JVL) did, and got off easy: $125. If you can afford going to the Super Bowl, $125 for a memento like this is an absolute steal, if you'll pardon the pun.

"I was haunted by tweets every day" Aren't we all? That was former White House(!) official Omarosa Manigualt, recounting on her new reality TV spot about her time serving the public. How she served the public, however, is another matter.

On Lady Doritos. My wife is one of the many millions of women who (rightly) are not ashamed to love Doritos, which is a blessing for a man like me. Heidi Moore has an insightful take at the Post about how companies have trouble marketing to women. CEOs often don't understand brands like the brands do, so forgive me for giving props to the Dorito's marketing team when they said on Twitter: "We already have Doritos for women — they’re called Doritos, and they’re loved by millions." If CEOs aren't careful, their "good ideas" will end up like George Carlin's.

Pro Se, Can You See? Campus outrage artist MILO has fired his lawyers, and (while not a lawyer) has decided to represent himself in court. His first appearance did not go well.

Watching Newsweek Die. On the list of the "MSM" outlets conservatives often deride, Newsweek is not at the top of the list of most hated outlets. Perhaps because it's been on life support for a while now. Is it in its death throes? Former staffer Matthew Cooper documents the golden age of the national general interest magazine, and why it might be dying. (We're all dying, let's not forget...) One interesting thing I took away from the decline of the publication is that it is trying too hard to give the people what they want. Too many people do that for free these days, it's much more difficult to do the hard stuff:

Monetization—to use that clumsy word—is still the goal, and click-bait is its enemy because it’s not a reliable revenue stream. As I said in my resignation letter, “Leaving aside the police raid and harassment scandal—a dependent clause I never thought I would write—it's the installation of editors, not Ken Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent not only for Newsweek but for other publications that don't heed the lessons of this publication's fall.”

Doing what's popular is easy, and that's why fads are fads.

Move over, airplane hamster. Saint Louis has you beat:

A man was killed and another injured after a discussion about a dog eventually boiled over and someone opened fire at the Show-Me’s Sports Bar & Grill Wednesday afternoon.

The argument started over the weight of a German shepherd, one witness told the Post-Dispatch.

The gunman's friend told bar patrons that his dog was 290 pounds. The man who was shot said he didn't believe it, said Carl Leavy, who saw the shooting.

What the now-deceased man should have said, as a Missourian, was "show me the dog."

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Jim Swift, Deputy Online Editor

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