A New York Times editorial page has finally discovered the infamous, pilfered Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat memos. The piece, entitled "Partisan Hacking in Congress," is an abuse of the language. According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the outlets to receive the stolen memos, what occurred wasn't exactly hacking. A statement put out last […]
Vanderbilt University has gotten the Jayson Blair treatment from The New York Times. Reporter Alex Abramovich, instead of reporting what actually happened and what he actually saw, instead decided to "report" on the stereotypes he holds for those racist, ignorant southerners. The whole episode sent the Vandy vice chancellor on a letter-writing mission to the […]
The New York Times has a pretty positive candidate profile of every Democrat's favorite hatemonger, the Rev. Al Sharpton. The Times piece is fairly standard stuff, but it leaves out some facts that informed voters should know about. Not mentioned in the article are: Sharpton's demonstration, protest and incitement against the "white interlopers" at Freddie's […]
A judge has thrown out liberal strategist Barbra Streisand's lawsuit against the California Coastal Records Project for taking an aerial photograph of her Malibu cliffside home. This was a no-brainer decision -- and the fact that the judge is considering awarding legal fees to the CCRP is just icing on the cake.
The Wall Street Journal's John Fund takes a look at the public financing of presidential elections that shells out nearly $1 million to Lyndon Larouche. If that isn't bad enough, he also notes a quirk about the public financing of mayoral elections in New York City. New York's financing system has already produced a windfall […]
The Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in the case of a Washington State student who received a merit scholarship that was rescinded after he decided to major in pastoral ministry. In the past, the court has decided that vouchers could legally be awarded to students, even if the students used those vouchers to attend […]
Not only is the Xbox the only one to have the incredible Halo. It also stops bullets. Really.
The intelligentsia on the left have often had their fun with gaffes by Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle to George W. Bush. It appears as though Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean may give the right a similar opportunity for hilarity. Many have already pointed out Dean's repeated referrals to the Soviet Union as […]
The New York Times news article on the faux Middle East peace plan includes this from former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter: Mr. Carter, defeated in his quest for re-election by Ronald Reagan in 1980, speculated that "had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence […]