OK, my friends and I are playing "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" on the Xbox. It has a better plot than either Episode I or II. Anyway, there is a series of puzzles that require some mathematical ability, and the first three were easy. The fourth was difficult: Problem: 4 * 14 * […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is far more of a cowboy than the man he regularly maligns, President George W. Bush. Demonstrating the Old West ideal of giving the accused a "fair trial followed by a public hanging," Krugman pronounces Bush guilty and therefore needs not bother with proving anything. Krugman's latest screed works […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru takes issue with colleague Byron York's (and by extension my own) view that it is inaccurate to tar Senate judiciary committee Democrats as "anti-Catholic." However, Ponnuru acknowledges the vaildity of many of the points made by York and myself: So Republican rhetoric about the Democrats' having adopted a "religious test for […]
At least, that's what the Mexican consulate here in San Diego seems to be saying. Mexican officials filed a formal complaint with the Border Patrol yesterday after agents arrested a Mexican family on their way to the Mexican consulate in San Diego. According to the consulate, the five family members were within a block of […]
But James Goldsborough's column in Thursday's Union-Tribune is right-on.
Well, you're not going to find it in the latest column by alleged economist Paul Krugman. On a day when there is a bonanza of good economic news, (stocks up; economic growth up; inventories down, jobless claims down) Krugman decides to focus on the financial mess in California. First Krugman puts in his two cents […]
I think there's been a lot of overhyped concern about civil liberties and the Patriot Act. The Weekly Standard's David Tell, explores some of the poor reporting regarding the Patriot act from (surprise) The New York Times.
Is that what the BBC has become? Well, this account of their BBC World Service radio broadcast is evidence of. The author, journalist Denis Boyles, also makes a larger point about journalism as a whole that's worth remembering. "I was wrong." Of all the words in all the paragraphs in all the stories ever written […]
National Review's Byron York has more on the William Pryor nomination that I discussed earlier. York comes to many of the same conclusions I did, namely that Democratic senators are not anti-Catholic per se, but their use of the abortion litmus test has a de facto effect of barring orthodox Catholics, evangelical Christians, orthodox Jews […]
And a wrong way -- to teach. I guess I was fortunate (and smart) to attend a university where the purpose is to teach. Some of the more "upper-tier" universities, it appears, are more interested in name recognition then whether or not the students are learning. Don Luskin publishes a letter from a former student […]