While I don't agree with everything in it, today's New York Times has a surprisingly reasonable editorial calling on Democrats to take a position on American foreign policy post-9/11 that is something more substantive than: Bush is wrong. The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of preventive war. […]
A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research finds that 75 percent of Palestinians supported or strongly supported the Oct. 4 suicide bombing of a restaurant in Haifa that killed 21 people. No roadmap can succeed as long as the Palestinians embrace a culture of violence and destruction.
If the economy had never tanked and the Iraq war and its aftermath had been flawless, would former Gen. Wesley Clark be a Democrat? Or would 2007 come and he would seek office as a Republican? Well, it appears as the good general was offering effusive praise of the GOP administration as recently as January […]
When good economic news comes out, does Krugman address it? No, like a little child being told something he doesn't want to hear, he puts his fingers in his ears and whines the same ol' song. Krugman, who has yet to win a Nobel Prize in economics, quotes George Akerlof, who has one a Nobel […]
Well, I've got the 60 Minutes II piece on the "sexed up" Iraq intelligence and there's really no surprises in the statements coming from former State Department analyst Greg Thielmann. After checking out some background helpfully provided by Robert Musil, what CBS managed to come up with is the same ol', same ol'. As I […]
I recently finished reading Bob Kohn's "Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why it Can No Longer Be Trusted." On the whole, the book is well written and documented. Kohn identifies many different methods of injecting bias into news stories, nearly every one of them masterfully accomplished by the Times. […]
Today's Wall Street Journal has a great article on a machine gun shoot at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Ky. After reading the piece, I want to go out and fire a .50-cal sniper rifle -- talk about fun!
Tonight's "60 Minutes II" features a State Department career foreign service officer who claims that the U.S. intelligence regarding Iraq was "sexed up" a la Andrew Gilligan. But that's not all, if you watch the video preview (follow the link above and look for the video link on the right), CBS newsman Scott Pelley asks […]
Don Luskin catches New York Times columnist Paul Krugman practicing deception once more. So Krugman hand-picked a "model" that confirmed his prejudices. But does it? After spending a few minutes playing the role of Joseph Wilson IV and "drinking sweet mint tea," I found that Krugman had sexed-up his hand-picked "model." First I downloaded the […]
Perhaps the only thing sadder than seeing a blogger do his monthly banging of the tip jar (hint, hint), is seeing a wealthy, egotistical multimillionaire ask for money. That's right, Arianna's campaign is still $235,000 in debt and she wants you to fork over some cash. The woman who hasn't paid income taxes in the […]