President Bush has unveiled his first television ads of the 2004 campaign (you can see them here). Two of the three ads show some a couple of seconds of extremely tame 9/11 images. Predictably, Bush opponents -- including some who are relatives of 9/11 victims -- have come out decrying the ads as insensitive. Get […]
New York Times Public Editor, responding to e-mail criticisms of an incident last month where a quote was recycled and the individuals party affiliation changed, has addressed the issue on his blog-type thingy. Birds hit with this single stone included the acknowledgment that both quotes came from one interview; that the two articles were about […]
National Review Online published a couple of excellent pieces on the California Supreme Court's decision in the Catholic Charities case.
Well, they were pretty easy for me, but former Georgia Bulldogs assistant coach Jim Harrick Jr. makes j-school exams look like particle physics. Here's Harrick Jr.'s Final Exam for his "Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball" course in the fall of 2001: 1. How many goals are on a basketball court? a. 1 b. 2 […]
So I'm looking at my referrer logs and one thing leads to another which leads to this. I must confess that I don't often venture into the far left side of the blogosphere because there is a plague of Bush Derangement Syndrome which is not conducive to rational thought. That having been said, Sean023's (why […]
I had no problem voting early Tuesday afternoon using the new touch screen machines. I talked with the poll workers, and my precinct was one of several across the county that had problems with the new machines. Unlike some others that were delayed by several hours, my Escondido polling site was able to get the […]
The California State Supreme Court ruled today that Catholic Charities of Sacramento must provide coverage for contraceptives, despite the Catholic Church's prohibition on their use. The state supreme court said the charity, incorporated separately from the church, was not a "religious employer" exempt from legislation mandating such coverage. While affiliated with the Catholic Church, the […]
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is out -- and says that the mean U.S. Marines forced him out in a coup d'etat. The Congressional Black Caucus is screaming bloody murder that a "democratically elected" president was ousted. If Aristide was genuinely re-elected, as critics of the Bush administration claim, then any lame claims of President Bush […]
Voters in California and several other states go to the ballot box tomorrow for the Super Tuesday primary. For California residents wanting my take on the ballot initiatives (I'll leave you to your own devices on the candidates for various races), here they are: Prop. 55 is a $12.3 billion bond issue for building new […]
First, Laura Bartholomew Armstrong takes aim at Sen. John Kerry's participation in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As the kid of a real war hero who did not come back, I'd like to comment not on Kerry's service, but his postservice activities. Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Mr. Kerry's organization of choice when he returned […]