I'm the only really "out" conservative in the newsroom. So, it should really come as no surprise when I get snarky messages over the newsroom's instant-messaging system like this: 'Capt. Gregory Ratzlaff, 36, of Olympia, Wash., died Tuesday in a non-combat incident at a base near Najaf. He was assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter...' (do […]
I'm curious to see how Eric Alterman and his ilk who believe that the media -- especially News Corp.'s Fox News and The New York Post -- are part of a right-wing cabal react to this news. Five executives on Kerry's list joined him in Davenport, Iowa, today at what the campaign called an "economic […]
Today's Washington Post has an article on the journalists' Unity Convention in Washington, D.C. The convention is all about promoting diversity in newsrooms that is only skin deep. (Columnist Michelle Malkin offers her take on the event here.) This paragraph was the one that, once again, really steamed me: During last year's plagiarism scandal involving […]
Since the first Dream Team took the court in 1992, USA Basketball has been the next incarnation of sports dominance -- following the Soviet hockey teams of the '60s and '70s. Well, the latest group of professional All Stars showed what they're made of last night when they got their butts kicked by the Italian […]
I mentioned last week that one of my colleagues at work had dismissed race-baiter and hatemonger Al Sharpton as "harmless." With Sharpton's background as the main promoter of the Tawana Brawley hoax, inciting the Crown Heights riots -- which left one Orthodox Jew dead -- and the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart, I found his […]
As I read David Cay Johnston's book on the U.S. tax system, I kept thinking of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." I first read "The Jungle" the summer before my junior year of high school for my Advanced Placement U.S. History class. Sinclair's novel is the story of an immigrant family trying to make it in […]
For those hoping that the Kerry campaign would take a civil, high-minded approach to the 2004 contest following the Democrat convention, those hopes have been quickly dashed. From Kerry's acceptance speech: I want to address these next words directly to President George W. Bush: In the weeks ahead, let's be optimists, not just opponents. Let's […]
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh has been looking at the threatened lawsuit against the JibJab parody of "This land is your land." (If you haven't seen it, you need to.) After reading all of those posts and Volokh's considered opinion that JibJab has a relatively weak legal position, I wonder why the Capitol Steps haven't […]
The other day the Kerrys and Edwards stopped at a Wendy's fast food joint to celebrate the Edwards' anniversary. Apparently, according to some news reports, Mrs. Heinz Kerry had to be enlightened by her husband about what exactly "chili" was (that's the meal, not the country). Well, it turns out that it was only an […]
Buddhist Muslim terrorists killed at least 15 Christians exiting church Sunday morning throughout Iraq.