Following up on Monday's special entitled "Jesus, Mary and DaVinci" ABCNews will do a piece entitled "Mohammed, Ahmed and Rushdie." Though there is no evidence the Prophet Mohammed had a gay lover and the vast majority of Islamic scholars scoff at the idea, ABCNews will spend an hour of prime time on the subject next […]
America's most-advanced tank, the M1A1 Abrams was disabled by some sort of RPG. I say "some sort of RPG" because officials aren't sure exactly what it was that hit the tank on patrol in Iraq. One armor expert at Fort Knox, Ky., suggested the tank may have been hit by an updated RPG. About 15 […]
Right Wing News' John Hawkins talks with former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg about his new book, "Arrogance."
Union-Tribune reporter Kristen Green has an excellent piece in today's paper on one family's tragedy.
Sunday's Washington Post features an article announcing the creation of a flat tax in Iraq. The article features a colorful history of the flat tax idea and plenty of quotes from U.S.-based flat-tax supporters. The idea also gets a couple of bricks thrown at it, one by an unnamed "Middle East expert," and the other […]
When I first saw this come over the wire, that's what I thought. Arkansas 71, Kentucky 63.
I recently finished reading McKay Jenkins' "The Last Ridge," a history of the Army's famed 10th Mountain Division. Anyone interested in military history or WWII will enjoy this book and earn a new appreciation of some of the men who fought in the mountains of Italy. While historians such as Stephen E. Ambrose have written […]
The Weekly Standard's Jonathan V. Last has an excellent article on the film "Shattered Glass" and its whitewash of the newsroom atmosphere that allowed fiction-writer Stephen Glass' lies to continually make their way into print. Good editors look at the case of Stephen Glass and think, "There but by the grace of God." A smart […]
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch writes that the media, pundits and Bush-haters are convinced, for a variety of reasons, that the economy can't be getting better. Now, I'm not suggesting "irrational exuberance" again. First of all, it's not warranted (yet), and giddiness about the economy didn't really help last time. And I'm also not […]
The Associated Press is reporting that a helicopter spotted the flames that would become known as the Cedar Fire and called for water drops that could have extinguished or hindered the spread of the fire in those initial hours, but the request was nixed because the call came minutes after state safety regulations barred flights. […]