New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is sounding the alarm over President Bush's nomination of conservatives to the federal appeals court. Is this supposed to come as some big surprise? Elections have consequences. The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering two more of President Bush's appeals court nominees -- Michael McConnell to the 10th Circuit, based […]
Vikings petulant wide-receiver Randy Moss has been charged with 2 misdemeanors.
From Reuters: KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two gunmen burst into the offices of a Christian welfare organization in the Pakistani city of Karachi Wednesday and opened fire, killing six people, three of them Christians, and wounding two others, police said. Remember: Islam means peace. Rest in peace. *UPDATE* It looks like seven dead now -- […]
I was going to wait to talk about the stem cell bill recently signed by California Gov. Gray Davis until I'd had time to digest it and until I'd heard what Ramesh Ponnuru had to say. The first of these things has occurred. To summarize, if you don't want to follow the link, Ramesh says […]
From a letter writer to National Review Online's "The Corner:" I thought you might enjoy hearing about an example of the environmental craziness unleashed in the Clinton military. As a military engineer, I was involved in an F-16 test program at Edwards AFB, CA. Evidently there was some endangered desert tortoise that was indigenous to […]
Citizen Gore said in his speech yesterday that President Bush was wrong to press for a war in Iraq when the war on terrorism is left unfinished. Many people who support a war on Iraq, however, are convinced that toppling Saddam Hussein is part of that same war on terror. But even for those who […]
Author David Klinghoffer pens a piece on National Review Online that offers a brief look at an America that's not as disconnected from its spiritual roots as those in L.A. or New York would lead us to believe.
Down on my criticism of Eric Alterman, RLB (who left no e-mail, otherwise I would've responded in private) makes the following comment: Um, let's see . . . Alterman points out Bush's status as a minority president (indisputable) who won the EC without a clear vote count (would have been true of Gore also, but […]
Terrorists nuke D.C. President Gore vows: 'They will pay' SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- President Al Gore, speaking at a fund-raiser at the Commonwealth Club here, reacted angrily to news that terrorists detonated a small "briefcase nuke" in Washington, D.C., destroying the Capitol and the White House and leaving thousands dead. "I'm furious. Really, I am," […]