Today's Washington Times reports on a survey by the pro-abortion rights Center for the Advancement of Women that found that 51 percent of American women said the government should prohibit abortion or limit it to the narrow rape/incest/life-of-the-mother situations. In its last term, the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws and barred the execution of […]
It took me about a day and a half, but at about 6 a.m. this morning I finished the latest Harry Potter book. It was much longer than the previous ones, but it doesn't lag. I'll also say this for the editors -- I only saw one minor copyediting-related mistake. It was much better than […]
By the time this entry is posted, California will enter the next fiscal year without a budget -- for the third straight year. With Gov. Gray Davis facing a likely recall -- the first of a statewide official in California history -- he is in a poor position to force a compromise between Democrats loath […]
This weekend's Financial Times had an article on James McNeill Whistler and a show on the 100th anniversary of the artist's death. The story interested me because I enjoy Whistler's art and during high school I gave a presentation in my English class on Whistler. The reason I remember the presentation is because it was […]
I don't support the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, mainly because I believe that four more years of his lack of leadership and pandering to special interests will seriously cripple the Democratic Party in the state. That being said, I think that this sort of behavior is out of line. Opponents of the move to […]
When word came into the newsroom last night that former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond had kicked the bucket, one of the copy editors asked me what I thought about "my guy Strom's" death. I responded that Strom, a segregationist, wasn't really my kind of guy. Though I'm sure we would agree on many things, […]
I just like the idea of a gun that fires a million rounds a minute -- and now it appears that it's real. I'm betting that Rachel Lucas would love this.
Today's winner is Democrat Rep. Patrick Kennedy, as reported by The Washington Times' Lloyd Grove: As sometimes happens with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), he let his mouth race ahead of his brain Wednesday night at a gathering of Young Democrats at the Washington nightspot Acropolis. After presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke, Kennedy delivered an impassioned […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman complains that the Republican party is becoming the dominant party in American politics. In "Welcome to the Machine," Nicholas Confessore draws together stories usually reported in isolation — from the drive to privatize Medicare, to the pro-tax-cut fliers General Motors and Verizon recently included with the dividend checks mailed […]
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who previously served as an associate managing editor at the Times and once won a Pulitzer Prize, shows how journalism is done at the paper of record. Since I've been accusing the Bush administration of cooking the intelligence on Iraq, I should confess my intentions. Countless Iraqis warned me […]