Timothy Sandefur has written another nice summary of the legislating from the bench going on in Nevada. Check it out.
Timothy Sandefur has written another nice summary of the legislating from the bench going on in Nevada. Check it out.
Clifford D. May over at National Review Online offers some background on one person that the New York Times and other national media outlets are touting as a nonpartisan, career foreign diplomat whose criticisms against the Bush administration should be taken seriously. Joseph C. Wilson, in a Times op-ed last week alleged that: "I have […]
Yes, I know. It's an oxymoron, but this report from London's Daily Telegraph chaps my hide. President Jacques Chirac negotiated a secret deal to protect Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of Europe's worst atrocities since the Second World War, according to evidence submitted to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. […]
...or you'll fall for anything" is the title of a country music song by Aaron Tippin. I was reminded of that when I saw this article on The Wall Street Journal's Houses of Worship feature today. While the article is an interesting account of a mystery writer's quest for "spirituality," the following paragraph shocked me […]
California's Prop. 13, along with having the effect of reducing property taxes, also required a 2/3 majority in order to pass a state budget. This requirement is one fo the primary causes of the state budget stalemate because, even in this Democrat-dominated state, there are enough Republicans in the legislature that a few of them […]
Exhibit A: Cartoonist/Columnist Ted Rall. His latest "column" is entitled "Authoritarians Gone Wild." You can bet the video won't be nearly as entertaining as the other line of "Gone Wild" productions. He has canceled elections in Iraq. He will probably cancel them in Afghanistan. Will George W. Bush put the kibosh on elections in the […]
Yesterday one of my good friends sent me this link to a story about a man who got so frustrated by a telemarketer that he called up the company that the telemarketer was working for (Minnesota Auto Glass) -- more than 100 times over a two day period. So, how am I awakened this morning? […]
Princeton University professor Peter Singer, who is famous for suggesting that monkeys have more intrinsic value than humans with disabilities and children, has won an ethics award. Only in academia can a man whose views on the value of human life parallel that of the Nazis be lauded and showered with awards.
First it was Cal Poly and the stifling of free speech, now it's my former employer the North County Times. As reported by Poynter's Jim Romenesko, the Times last week altered a photo of a youth softball player with the Union-Tribune logo on the back of her jersey. This is the second photo-related stupidity that […]