The Nation is the political left's answer to National Review...only a lot more stupid. In today's "Best of the Web Today" column, James Taranto points out an egregious mistake in the first sentence of an article trying to connect Bush to the Enron bankruptcy. When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began […]
I know it may be hard to believe, but Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman is at it again. Waxman is leading the charge trying to find some way to tie the Enron bankruptcy to the Bush Administration. Thankfully, it doesn't appear to be working thus far, mainly because there's no evidence to support claims of preferential […]
The Wall Street Journal's John Fund takes on the issue of greed and history in a column in today's paper. The family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. have held tight to the rights to his speeches and words, to the detriment of history and education. Anyone attempting to use the late […]
Well, I saw a television commercial for the upcoming movie "A Walk to Remember," based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The TV spot concerned me, so I went onto the Internet looking for the longer trailer. I found it here. You can watch it yourself, but after reading the novel, […]
Comedian Larry Miller, who had roles in "10 Things I Hate About You" and other films wrote a column for the Weekly Standard. It's a funny take on New Year's resolutions in a post-9/11 world. SO HERE'S what I resolve for the new year: To never forget our murdered brothers and sisters. To never let […]
Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat for an explanation for the 50 tons of arms that Israel interdicted en route to the Palestinian Authority. Readers of the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today" wrote in with excuses for Arafat. My favorite: Michael Flynn: "It was all part of […]
Leave it to the Washington Post's Richard Cohen to apparently play both sides of the street. In an article in today's Post, Cohen tackles the Enron collapse, calling it "a (expletive deleted) outrage." This case most definitely is that. Of course, Cohen is a learned man and a highly-paid, highly-talented columnist, so he should have […]
Kudos to Andrew Sullivan and OpinionJournal.com for highlighting the following evidence of the kind of unthinking liberal bias that Bernard Goldberg points out in his bestselling book. High Bias Andrew Sullivan has been doing a brilliant job rebutting liberal media folks who pooh-pooh Bernard Goldberg's best-selling book, "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media […]
The guys running Enron are a bunch of white-collar crooks. They apparently used accounting principles heretofore limited to the U.S. government. Enron created a series of complex partnerships in order to keep billions of dollars in debt off their books.With these debts hidden, Enron was able to continue borrowing cash to run its trading business. […]