But if these losers are American, then the fourth estate has much more serious things to worry about than Jayson Blair.
But if these losers are American, then the fourth estate has much more serious things to worry about than Jayson Blair.
As tens of thousands are systematically killed in a racist pogrom in Sudan, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (of which Sudan is a member) takes aim at the United States. GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Commission gave the U.S.-led coalition a mixed review Friday on its performance in Iraq, lauding it for ending […]
Ramesh Ponnuru has an excellent article clearing up some of the false claims made by proponents of embryonic-stem-cell research.
It's been 15 years since the Chinese Army moved into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and massacred hundreds and possibly thousands of their fellow citizens who peacefully gathered demonstrating for democracy. I was a high school junior at the time, and had recently taken the Advanced Placement U.S. History test. I was reaching the age when […]
The L.A. Daily News is reporting that the cowardly 3-2 vote to cave in to the ACLU on the county seal is causing a massive backlash. We alone have received more than 600 e-mails and 200 phone calls in the last 24 hours," said John Musella, spokesman for Board of Supervisors Chairman Don Knabe, who […]
There's an old metaphysical question along the lines of: "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a noise?" The idea is that something has to be witnessed in order for it to have an impact. I've gotten a couple thousand hits over the past […]
For those in the San Diego area who want to show some support for the troops, Lt. Smash is organizing a counterprotest to the Marxist/Stalinist anti-American A.N.S.W.E.R types. Downtown on a Friday night! You can counterprotest and then go out to dinner in the gaslamp district.
The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to consume journalists everywhere -- even at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Today's A1 has an article by Finlay Lewis of the Copley News Service (the U-T is the Copley Press' flagship paper) on President Bush's trip to Europe for the D-Day comemmoration. The second paragraph: Long a target […]
I'm currently reading the late, great Michael Kelly's "Martyrs' Day," an account of the first Gulf War. The book is very different in style and substance from Rick Atkinson's "In the Company of Soldiers" (which is also an excellent book), but more of a traditional historical account of Gulf War II. Kelly's work is more […]