Amidst the wall-to-wall coverage of the discovery of the missing UW-Madison coed this afternoon, there was little mention of the attack on U.S. contractors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. According to the Washington Post, recovering the mens' bodies for their families may be tough. Crowds carried the bodies of two victims to the nearby […]
Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry was in San Diego yesterday railing against high gas prices. Taking a page from his former opponent Howard Dean, Kerry has taken to referring to the higher gas prices as the "Bush Gas Tax Hike." The "logic" of this phraseology seems to be that if the price of some item […]
I just finished reading Dan Brown's "Deception Point" last night. Brown is most famous for his book "The DaVinci Code," which spawned some controversy by suggesting that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene had a child together. The claim is laughable -- Elaine Pagels says so. (And you know if Pagels thinks it's nuts, then it […]
San Diego Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen on the abortion issue.
I'm not talking about the ESPN show of the same name. Nope, I'm talking about my dream job -- getting paid for doing this. Writing about what I want. Maybe publishing two columns a week for a major newspaper. I hope that this is training for that eventual day. That being said, when your job […]
Sen. Tom Daschle, irked that President Bush would use the recess appointment power that is only to be used by Democrat presidents, has ordered a halt to approval of all federal judicial nominees. It's not a new suggestion, but it is one that is increasingly being considered -- put conservative and libertarian legal minds that […]
Bestselling liar Richard Clarke appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Most of host Tim Russert's questioning wasn't much different than what Clarke faced before the 9/11 commission. Russert's questioning was largely disappointing. He was much tougher on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean when he appeared on the program. Setting that aside, when Clarke left […]
LAObserved has extended the story regarding the bogus brouhaha when it was revealed that former USA Today reporter/fabricator Jack Kelley was *gasp* a Christian. One target of the not-so-tolerant left's shotgun-style attack was Los Angeles Times reporter Roy Rivenburg, who had the bad luck to be identified as a World Journalism Institute lecturer and be […]
So I"m reading Xbox Nation magazine and I come across a brief news item regarding and upcoming game from LucasArts. A third-person action game, Mercenaries (its working title) seems to be an ultraviolent third-person explosion fest. Mercs can pick and choose sides, working for either the North Koreans, Chinese, Russian Mafia or United Nations. So, […]