An article in today's San Diego Union-Tribune recounts some gross stupidity by the immigration service that should result in some firings. In short, the wife of a Navy sailor, and her 8 1/2-month-old American daughter, was detained for several days after returning from her native Australia. "They didn't listen," she said, during a telephone interview […]
The difference between the two is intent. An error is unintentional. A lie is not. So, what is a viewer to believe when the BBC's Andrew Gilligan, the man who told BBC World Service listeners that U.S. troops weren't at the Baghdad airport when they actually were, says that he made a "slip of the […]
Cal Poly Mustangs climb the NCAA Div. I-AA polls to No. 21. Up next: No. 11 Montana State.
Slate's William Saletan has an excellent piece that the Democrat presidential hopefuls should heed. I'm not excusing the games Republicans play. But by projecting all evil onto Republicans, Democrats spread the same political disease: the notion that you don't have to be wary of lying or cheating unless the other side is doing it. Lying […]
Don Luskin does some reporting on Paul Krugman's New York Times Magazine piece. There should be no surprise that Krugman cherry-picks his data and ascribes evil, malicious intent to his opponents, when there is merely ideological differences. Go check it out.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (surprise!) called a halt to the recall election slated for Oct. 7. The most-reversed court in the land has determined that the same voting devices that gave us Gray Davis last year are too flawed to be used to recall the aforementioned Davis. Scott Ott over at Scrappleface.com leads […]
The New York Times editorial page has two corrections in Tuesday's paper. [A]n Op-Ed article on Friday about the playoff hopes of the Cubs and the White Sox incompletely described the life cycle of cicadas in Chicago. While some have appeared after 13 years underground, most emerge after 17 years. An Op-Ed article on Sunday […]
NOW president Kim Gandy has written a letter to The New York Times defending her organization's decision to trivialize itself by endorsing Carol Moseley-Braun for president. If Braun ever started polling in double digits, the media would be forced to stop ignoring her corrupt past. She would then plunge once more into the depths of […]
I'm not talking about home-improvement -- despite the fact that ever since the new owners of the condo above mine took ownership, their bathroom has been leaking into mine. (It's being taken care of -- one way or another.) No, I'm referring to Mark Steyn's latest column on not relying on government when you can […]
Presidential hopeful and AWOL legislator Dick Gephardt appeared on Fox News Sunday and demonstrated unequivocally that he should never set foot anywhere near the White House. In the first segment of the show, Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that the French would like to have a solid date for turning over complete control of […]