Even criminals need to pay attention in English class. A former Los Angeles Times employee surrendered to Los Angeles police Monday in connection with the theft of $64,236 from the newspaper's Sept. 11 Disaster Relief Fund. Michael Childress, 35, a temporary employee hired to process mail and donations to the fund, is scheduled for arraignment […]
Numerous surveys of the media have shown that journalists are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. Despite this, journalists swear on a stack of Ms. magazines that they don't let their personal biases enter into their reporting. Like former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg, I think they actually do believe this. The problem is, it's not true. Today's object […]
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd has published bits of "e-males" (isn't she clever?) from men who, unlike most of Dowd's friends, are not intimidated by successful intelligent women. It's probably the best column published under her byline in a long time, mainly because she writes so little of it. Wright Salisbury's missive brought a […]
The Washington Post has an article in today's paper on how some of the post-Sept. 11 detainees were treated in prison. My heart isn't breaking, and if the Post's reporting describes the worst that they suffered, well, They should be glad they were in America, and not any other country in the world. Inside the […]
Last night, before I went to bed I checked out the Pravda of bloggers, Instapundit.com. Glenn Reynolds had noted that the Council on American-Islamic Relations had one of those little Web polls up. The question: Should Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be tried for war crimes? Glenn suggested that his readers may want to make […]
I missed this last week when I read Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen the riot act over her anti-man-all-women-are-victims-and-men-should-just-go-away-forever essay, but Stanley Kurtz wrote a great essay taking Quindlen and the New York Times' Maureen Dowd to task and suggesting a new holiday. Here, I think, we have the germ of an idea for a simply […]
Playing the nice guy? California Gov. Gray Davis is hoping that residents of the state aren't paying attention or have a very short attention span. California, like many other states are facing a budget crisis. While the economy was booming, no state program had to go without, and it was the perfect opportunity to add […]
One of the Glenn Reynolds' readers over at Instapundit.com sent him a short note, which I'll reprint here -- it contains more than a kernel of truth. We just returned from Friday night services, where I was reminded of Golda Meir's remarks probably 40 years ago. Asked when there would be peace between Israel and […]
Well, in Friday morning's paper New York Times columnist Paul "Line 47" Krugman accused the secretaries of the Army and Navy of treason. By Friday afternoon it was all over the airwaves that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Nuts-Ga.) had gone as far to accuse President Bush of treason. We know there were numerous warnings of the […]