I wanted to point these out, but it slipped my mind earlier. Check out this column by Holman Jenkins on "Krugmanomics," and this one by Brian Anderson on the Democrats' illegal use of the filibuster.
I wanted to point these out, but it slipped my mind earlier. Check out this column by Holman Jenkins on "Krugmanomics," and this one by Brian Anderson on the Democrats' illegal use of the filibuster.
I hate to say it, but it's clear that The New York Times isn't the paper it used to be. The Jayson Blair fraud and Augusta Country Club Crusade aside, the paper's Op-Ed writers also have some series credibility problems. If the Bush administration, and Republicans everywhere, were as bad as people like Maureen Dowd […]
I've got CNN's "Capitol Gang" on right now and Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt is running down some of the "lies" that we've allegedly been told about Iraq. Dick Cheney said, on the eve of war, said that Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons. That is untrue. Well, kinda. Al, why don't you go and […]
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The San Diego City Fire Chief Jeff Bowman met Wednesday with the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board. The story included a variety of information detailing a lack of adequate funding for the fire department, including: Bowman, named yesterday to a state commission charged with reviewing responses to last week's wildfires and how to be better […]
Want more evidence that the United States is the only country that even tries to follow the Geneva Convention? Former New York Times reporter Rick Bragg writes in Pvt. Jessica Lynch's book "I Am a Soldier, too" what medical records reveal Lynch went through after the Humvee she was riding in crashed following an Iraqi […]
The CBS miniseries "The Reagans" has been nixed apparently after an outcry from Republicans, the right end of the blogosphere and talk radio. CBS denies outside pressure resulted in the decision to move the series to the premium cable channel Showtime -- where it will find far fewer potential viewers, and doesn't depend on ad […]
The best analysis I've seen thus far of the leaked memo that outlined Democrat plans to use the intelligence committee -- historically a nonpartisan zone -- comes from Steven Den Beste. Dewey decided that it was more important to defeat the Germans and Japanese than to defeat Roosevelt. He decided that it was more important […]
It's very likely that my father will get something like this for Christmas.
So I chose to spend my time doing other -- somewhat more productive things. In short, Krugman trimmed and misrepresented a quote in order to make Republicans look bad.