I'm not a national political reporter, so I don't have the time or the access to really advance the Sen. John Kerry vs. the Swift Boat Vets story in any meaningful way. What I can do, however, is take a look at how the media is doing its job (or not doing its job in […]
The Claremont-McKenna college professor who vandalized her own car, spraypainting racist epithets all over it, has been convicted of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud. She faces more than three years in state prison. (Kerri Francis) Dunn, 39, left the courthouse without commenting. Her attorneys later issued a statement saying the professor […]
I haven't made much mention of the developments of the last week-plus when it comes to Sen. John Kerry's service half a world away more than three decades ago. I blame John Kerry for making his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his campaign for president, rather than his nearly two decades in the Senate and […]
Today's New York Times op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof takes President Bush to task for not actively urging an extension of the decade-old assault weapons ban. The assault weapons ban, for the record, is a joke. It is a law that is all about aesthetics -- what the weapon looks like -- not what it […]
The left-wing Democrat surrogate MoveOn.org has come out with an advertisement attacking President Bush for his service in the National Guard. This is no surprise. What is a surprise is MoveOn.org's demand that Bush should somehow censor Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "George Bush used his father to get into the National Guard, and -- […]
It appears that Service Pack 2, which is designed to help improve security, can also (surprise!) cause various programs not to work. A list of the affected programs can be found here. Some of the programs listed I can understand having problems with the increased security demands of the latest Windows fix -- but Scrabble […]
We already know The New York Times is a liberal newspaper -- the paper's public editor, Daniel Okrent, admitted it just a few short weeks ago. But Okrent also said that he would have to wait until this year's election is over before passing judgment on the paper's political coverage. Well, look no further: Note […]
It appears that a surprisingly large number of Kerry donors haven't been disclosing all that is required by federal election law. There may be nothing to it, but it is worth looking into.
Bowing to demands by grungy, hirsute, perpetual college students, President Bush today announced that he was bringing U.S. troops home. (Those signs did say "U.S. troops out of Germany," right?) This move has been a long time coming. With the demise of the Soviet Union, there is no real foreign threat to Germany. It is […]
Too often the term is an oxymoron. Too many news anchors are in reality just news readers. Of course, if they can read the news, they can read anything -- even if it's written for them by the governor's staff. Bad precedent -- and the fact that their bosses don't seem to be troubled by […]