The Wall Street Journal's collection of briefs from the Democrat convention contains this interesting tidbit about the party's platform. Rutgers University political scientist Gerald Pomper tallies the number of times top politicos are mentioned in the Democratic Party platform: Al Gore, 0; Bill Clinton, 3; John Kerry, 39; George Bush, 56. "Despite all this positive […]
I'm not sure this is the Dukakis-in-a-tank moment -- mainly because I haven't seen any video -- but this isn't the smartest photo-op. So, which will voters prefer, a cowboy or a big blue pill?
I'm not a big fan of columnist Ann Coulter. As I've said before, I think that she's a bomb-thrower -- a conservative Maureen Dowd. Having said that, I was surprised to see that USA Today had dropped her column on the Democrat convention yesterday. You can find the rejected column here, along with the questions […]
I was just reading a wire story recapping this year's tour with a focus on other riders anxiously hoping for Lance Armstrong to retire. The story mentioned a banner posted on the most arduous climb of the tour by an American fan. A roadside banner on the mythical L'Alpe d'Huez featured a map of France […]
Someone inside the New York Times building has finally put in print what practically everyone on Earth already knew. (Dan Rather excepted.) Times public editor Daniel Okrent comes clean in Sunday's column. Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? [O]F course it is. The fattest file on my hard drive is jammed with letters […]
A letter-writer to the New York Times complains that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's use of the term "girlie man" somehow suggests that girls are "frivolous." She then threatens to withhold her vote from Republicans because of this. Heh.
A new scenario regarding the Berger pilfering incidents. I'm not sure what I think of all of this. Berger's contention that his actions were simply a result of "sloppiness" doesn't hold water. The possiblity that Berger was pilfering drafts of the millennum report with embarrassing handwritten notes in the margins sounds like a possibility. This […]