The New York Times has announced that David Brooks, a real live conservative, will join its ranks as an op-ed columnist beginning in early September. New executive editor Bill Keller's regime looks to be making an effort to making the Times appear more balanced.
Uday (left) and Qusay Hussein The United States military killed two of the most depraved, brutal and disgusting human beings on the face of the Earth. After asking them to give themselves up, the brothers Hussein decided instead that they would rather be pushing up weeds. (Daisies wouldn't grow over their graves.) However, that doesn't […]
But I predicted this. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said Thursday he plans to ask the California Supreme Court to ease the state's budget gridlock and free up money for schools by ruling that a simple majority of lawmakers can pass a spending plan. The petition, expected to be filed early next week […]
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, this evening, announced that counties had verified about 1.3 million signatures, far more than the approximately 900,000 needed to qualify for a special election to recall Gov. Gray Davis.. I think this is a mistake -- but it's a mistake that Gray Davis and the Republicans, by putting up […]
No, I'm sure that never occurs anywhere in America. Except California. Except for today. SACRAMENTO – Unaware that a live microphone was broadcasting their words around the Capitol, Assembly Democrats meeting behind closed doors debated prolonging California's budget crisis for political gain. Members of the coalition of liberal Democrats talked about slowing progress on the […]
Following in the footsteps of his colleague Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, in today's New York Times column corrects an error he made one week ago in his column. As I noted at the time, Krugman opened his column with the statement:"More than half of the U.S. Army's combat strength is now bogged down in Iraq..." […]
If you haven't seen it, it's worth a read. Michigan Democrat Rep. John Dingell posted a letter on his House Web site to UC Regent Ward Connerly attacking him for pushing for the abolition of racial preferences in Michigan. The letter itself is surprisingly juvenile and inane. Connerly's response, however, is priceless.
CNN highlights this AP story about Americans who are leaving for Canada because America "is growing too conservative and believe Canada offers a more inclusive, less selfish society." This is news because the AP found less than a dozen people who want to leave and there are millions who'd like to come. Anyway, it sounds […]
The New York Times had a front page story earlier this week on a change at the White House. No longer can you simply send a message to: [email protected] -- now you've got to go through as many as 9 different screens to send your message through. Pain in the butt? Yeah. Evidence that the […]
My sister and brother-in-law gave me one of those plastic gift cards to Borders for my birthday. I used the funds to purchase "Weird Al" Yankovic's latest album "Poodle Hat." The album has some great parodies, including new versions of Eminem and Avril Lavigne songs. But, the album also contains an original (not a parody) […]