The New York Times has a good series of articles on scumbucket insurance agents who take advantage of young GIs. However, even while they're rightfully exposing a great fraud, you can see see that they're failing when it comes to honesty. [W]hen Lanny Peavy, president of American Amicable Life Insurance of Waco, Tex., learned that […]
I'm not going on a summer trip, but for those who are interested in Yosemite, CNN has a good article on climbing Half Dome. I would like to emphasize a point made in the article for those of you who ever want to make the trek: take gloves. I don't mean nice white dress gloves. […]
Today's New York Times has three letters responding to Kristof's Saturday column (fisked below). It should come as no surprise that (as is the Times' habit) they all concur with Kristof's assessment of evangelical Christians. The most galling statement comes from the Rev. G. Patrick Thompson, who recalled something his New Testament professor said in […]
Common Cause and MoveOn.org filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that Fox News' "fair and balanced" slogan amounts to consumer fraud. (via The American Mind) If the FTC actually rules in the two liberal advocacy groups' favor, then I'm going to be next in line with a petition. I'm going to nail […]
That is, if you're an editor at The New York Times. When the news broke late yesterday that President Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, had gotten sloppy with classified information, the blogosphere jumped on it. What I found most interesting, however, was how the various media outlets covered it. Or more accurately, didn't cover […]