The San Diego Union-Tribune has a board on the third floor newsroom where they put photos and brief bios of new employees and interns. One of the Union-Tribune's newest interns is a student at UC San Diego. This individual is majoring in "critical gender roles." No, I don't know what the heck that is, nor […]
Fox News Watch's Eric Burns takes aim at celebrity worship in his latest column, especially the kind committed by James Lipton and his "Inside the Actor's Studio." Burns is correct in his assessment of Lipton: If he had been alive in the Middle Ages, he would have earned his living by licking the boots of […]
Frum on the Mideast "peace process": Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (or so we are again urged to believe) are merely bystanders. Nobody believes this interpretation of events; and yet many, including even the US State Department, feel obliged to continue repeating them. And so they disguise from themselves – and constrain Israel too to […]
Featured in today's column by The New York Times' Paul Krugman: 1. Bush lied 2. Bush lied 3. Bush is politicizing Sept. 11 4. Bush lied Nothing new to see here, though I did find the following of passing interest: And some stunts no longer seem feasible. Maybe it was the pressure of other commitments […]
I'm dumbfounded by what I've been hearing during the debates and in interviews with prominent Democrats following President Bush's Sunday speech requesting $87 billion for the military and the reconstruction of Iraq. More than one Democratic presidential candidate at Tuesday's debate suggested that they would approve the portion of the $87 billion allocated for the […]
The Washington Post takes the Dems to task for turning Attorney General John Ashcroft into an "all-purpose bogeyman."
Two years ago today 19 terrorists on four jumbo jets conspired to kill nearly 3,000 Americans. These young Muslim men committed mass murder for the promise of a paradise where their sexual desires would be sated by 72 virgins. Much of the world mourned with us, as the horror of the day's events began to […]
There's an excellent article online from Esquire Magazine on one of the most shocking and enduring images from Sept. 11, 2001. Read it. It's another reminder of why we must never forget.
Karl Zinsmeister reports some results from a scientific opinion poll taken recently in Iraq. In short, they don't hate us. They don't love Osama. Not what you typically hear on your evening news.