There's a good article in the Washington Post on the situation some small Web broadcasters are facing with the increasingly greedy Recording Industry Association of America. The lengths that the RIAA goes to to prevent its customers from using something they've paid for in a legal manner is infuriating. I'm almost to the point where […]
If you can read The New York Times' package in today's paper entitled "102 Minutes" and still have dry eyes, you're a stronger person than I am. Rescue workers did not get near them. Photographers could not record their faces. If they were seen at all, it was in glimpses at windows, nearly a quarter-mile […]
Today's Washington Post has an article headlined: "FBI Culture Blamed for Missteps on Moussaoui." The FBI certainly deserves blame for failing to prevent the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, but I'm not sure that it's the "FBI Culture" that's completely to blame. Rowley wrote that the careers of high-ranking FBI officials have in the past […]
National Review Online's Jay Nordlinger makes an excellent observation in today's Impromptus column. You have heard what George W. Bush said about Cuba (for a refresher, go here). Among other things, he said, ?Today, and every day for the past 43 years, [the] legacy of [Cuban] courage has been insulted by a tyrant who uses […]
Right on the issue, wrong on the history: Paul Krugman comes out, a month delayed, against President Bush's decision to slap tariffs on imported steel. Krugman says that the president's decision was made for political gain and is anti-free trade -- and he's right. But Krugman's recounting of history glosses over one important fact -- […]
Senility check: I hope that when I begin to suffer from Alzheimer's disease (preferably at a very advanced age) that whatever newspaper I am writing for has the good sense to put me out to pasture. In today's Washington Post, columnist Mary McGrory reveals that her time is has come. McGrory tries her hand at […]
The skeletal remains of former intern Chandra Levy were found in a park in Washington, D.C. today. This is the second tragedy in this case. The first tragedy occurred earlier this year when adulterous congressman Gary Condit lost the Democratic primary -- meaning that he will no longer be able to use his position as […]
The story so far: If you haven't seen it yet, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol has the text of his prepared remarks for a House subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia posted. Kristol gives a good, concise summary of the duplicity practices by the Saudi regime -- and why we need to stop […]
Why editors aren't always bad things: I've apparently raised a ruckus by suggesting that syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker took the idea from her latest column from a comment made at littlegreenfootballs.com. (For links see the item below.) The original poster of the idea, in their response to the item stated that what Parker did "was […]