Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003 in his blog, Captain's Quarters, and now writes for HotAir.com. His columns have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, The New York Sun, the Washington Times, and other newspapers. Morrissey has a daily Internet talk show on politics and culture at Hot Air. Since 2004, Morrissey has had a weekend talk radio show in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and often fills in as a guest on Salem Radio Network's nationally-syndicated shows. He lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and his two granddaughters. Morrissey's new book, GOING RED, will be published by Crown Forum on April 5, 2016.
Latest articles by Edward Morrissey
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Don't blame guns for Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide
feature By using guns as a scapegoat, Bob Costas wrongly absolves the NFL of the need to examine the dangerous effects of its violent game
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The government is getting into the fact-checking business. Be very, very afraid.
opinion Checking facts sounds like a great idea. Having the feds apply subjective judgments to free speech? Not so much.
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Better safe than sorry
feature Political leaders and news organizations have been unfairly pilloried for hyping the dangers of Irene. Really now — should they have ignored the threat instead?
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Stay out of Syria!
feature In no way is that a fight that should interest Americans; rather, we should be taking great care not to get entangled in it at all.
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What America's leaders could learn from the Advent
feature For starters, a little humility
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Did the NFL overreact to Michael Sam's detractors?
opinion The Dolphins came down hard on cornerback Don Jones. But the league has turned a blind eye to much worse offenses.
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Gun control? We need media rumor control
opinion Once again, the mainstream media gets things terribly wrong
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The media's mind-boggling failure to understand Pope Francis
opinion This raises all sorts of questions about journalists' ability to cover all religions
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Tony Blair: The Cassandra of the Middle East
opinion The former U.K. prime minister seems cursed to a life of being a foreign policy punch line. It's too bad — because he's right about ISIS.
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Goodbye, free speech
opinion At home and abroad, there's an increasing over-regulation of the free market of ideas. And that got me thinking...
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Can the 113th Congress get anything done?
feature Eric Cantor seems willing to compromise. Now it's up to Democrats to end the Age of Cliffs
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What I learned from totally unplugging and shutting up for three days
opinion It's better to focus on living your best life than in sharing your running commentary on it with the whole world
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Don't blame 'society' for the great selfie leak of 2014
opinion Conservatives believe in individual responsibility when it comes to crime. Why should that change when the stolen property is a racy photo?
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In defense of CNN
feature The most trusted name in news is getting pilloried for publishing details from the late Ambassador Stevens' journal. Critics ought to leave CNN alone
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Muting the king's message
feature The producers of The King's Speech have censored their own movie, deleting a gross vulgarity. Here's why that's a mistake
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We should have listened to Eisenhower
feature More than 50 years ago, Ike all but predicted the factors that led to the NSA's massive snooping enterprise
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Bradley Manning and James Rosen are not the same
feature The notorious WikiLeaks secret spiller isn't a reporter. He's a source
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Why I'm sick and tired of seeing naked women on HBO
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A new low for liberals: Attacking Catholic nuns over Hobby Lobby
feature The left's response to the Supreme Court decision gets more unhinged by the day
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The danger of American ineptitude on Ukraine
feature For too long, this administration has dithered and misjudged its foes
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The IRS's stunning and shameful record-keeping hypocrisy
feature They might as well say, "The dog ate my email"
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