This story brought to mind something my grandmother used to say: "People in hell want ice water." The implication, of course, is that they're not gonna get it.
This story brought to mind something my grandmother used to say: "People in hell want ice water." The implication, of course, is that they're not gonna get it.
That's how John Podhoretz describes New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from prison yesterday after she agreed to testify before the grand jury in the nadagate affair. I hope some day somebody writes all this down, because the whole story is unbelievable. Miller never writes a story about Plamegate, but insists she must keep […]
The Los Angeles Times has a couple of articles on the San Diego Union-Tribune and publisher David Copley. I'm not going to comment on any of this (because I have a mortgage payment) except to say that I've worked at the Union-Tribune for five years next month -- and I've never seen Helen or David […]
I hate to say it, but I think if you had a Christian on the copy desk -- or even someone who once went to a church for a long wedding and got bored and started flipping through the Bible in the back of the pews -- you wouldn't have made this error. The About […]
The Senate today confirmed John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court by a vote of 78-22. I must confess that he got more Democrat support than I predicted. I suspect this is because Roberts ended up replacing the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and not the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. The talk […]
Neil Cavuto is interviewing Congressman Barney Frank on the DeLay indictment and the corrupt Republicans. The criticism is coming from a guy whose gay lover was operating an "escort service" out of the congressman's apartment. Couldn't they have gotten a stand-up Democrat who doesn't have some taint of scandal of some sort to appear on […]
GOP majority leader Tom DeLay has been indicted for violating a Texas campaign finance law. I don't know if DeLay is guilty, but I'm more than a little bit skeptical because this prosecutor has a history of using the law for partisan gain. Among the politicians he has tangled with is Republican Sen. Kay Bailey […]
The New York Times isn't putting its editorials behind its TimesSelect wall of silence -- maybe it should. An editorial in today's Times urges readers to "connect the dots" on global warming and its influence on hurricanes. Hurricanes derive their strength from warm ocean waters. Ocean temperatures have been rising over the last 100 years, […]
The New York Times yesterday published an article assailing John Roberts over a memo that he wrote criticizing the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times v. Sullivan. There was just one problem with the article -- Roberts didn't write the memo that was the basis of the article, Bruce Fein did. An article yesterday […]
Idiots in a West Yorkshire, Great Britain, hospital have attempted to ban people from cooing at babies. A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection. A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice […]