Reuters has received Ignoble Award for dishonest reporting. Scroll down and notice that the Union-Tribune received a dishonorable mention for an article by Sandi Dolbee which likened an innocent victim of a suicide bombing to terror-defender Rachel Corrie's accidental death defending a tunnel used to smuggle arms, drugs and prostitutes into Palestinian-controlled areas.
The correction of the day from The New York Times: A review of "Lord of the Rings" on Page 6 of The Arts today misstates the opening day in some copies. The film opens around the country tomorrow, not today. One of the most anticipated movies of the year. One that appears on fan sites […]
Rep. Jim McDermott, Washington State's designated idiot in the Congress said Saddam's capture on Saturday was timed to help President Bush politically. In an interview Monday with a Seattle radio station, McDermott said the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator "a long time ago if they wanted." Asked if he thought the […]
Those of you who aren't science-fiction fans bear with me. As I was watching the 3-hour pilot episode of the old '70s space opera "Battlestar Galactica," a speech made by Admiral Adama, played by the late Lorne Greene, struck me as being particularly relevant today as we face this threat from radical Islamists. After announcing […]
Matt Drudge is reporting that MoveOn.org, the rabid, anti-war, anti-Bush Web site/liberal interest group has been soliciting funds from abroad in an effort to affect political change here in the United States. Funding from non-citizens to affect national elections is illegal. During the Clinton administration, the Chinese funneled money to help re-elect the president. Restauranteur […]
I've got a mess of explorer windows open to various stories that I've been meaning to share, and it's time to close some of them. So here they are: The Los Angeles Times reports on how fewer than 1,000 soldiers took on much of the Iraqi Army and militia in the heart of Baghdad. An […]
Usually Spamcatcher does an excellent job of filtering the tons of spam I get daily, but sometimes it's a little overzealous, so I scan through it periodically. Imagine my surprise when I got the following e-mail, it has been edited slightly so I can keep my PG rating intact. Subject: Fake ID for Muslims Need […]
Paul Krugman's favorite blogger, the anonymous Atrios, has the following "thoughts" on the capture of the Butcher of Baghdad: These are just some unorganized idle thoughts before I've had a cup of coffee. Capturing Saddam is a good thing - he was a bad guy. I'm really glad he was captured and not killed. But, […]
The Associated Press is reporting that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening and it could disappear in 1,500 to 2,000 years leaving compasses worldwide useless. Scientists also say the poles could then flip, making the compasses not useless, but wrong nonetheless, causing them to point south. This is certainly troubling, and I'm sure that industrialization […]