I'll come out and say it. I'd like a job as an editorial writer/columnist/blogger. I'd like to get paid for writing about whatever I want to write about. Unfortunately, it appears that I'm too intelligent to qualify in today's newspaper industry. Exhibit B (exhibit A was Maureen Dowd, below) comes from Xrlq who notes that […]
Last night, after giving the keynote address at the GOP convention, Georgia Democratic Sen. Zell Miller went on MSNBC's "Hardball" program and ripped Chris Matthews to shreds. You can find video of the interview here. [Scroll about half way down and you'll see it on the left.] I think Matthews is lucky that Miller was […]
to question the timing of this hurricane. It's obviously part of a Democratic plan to divert attention from the Republican National Convention.
Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times has me despairing of ever winning a Pulitzer Prize. [I] always enjoy hearing about how a teenage Dick Cheney stood off to the side with buckets of water to put out Lynne's flaming batons. But there was an even better moment during Claire Shipman's two-part "Good Morning […]
National Review's Byron York went to a forum the other day featuring New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Clinton hatchet man Sidney Blumenthal and proven liar Joseph Wilson, among others. What York discovered was that Krugman isn't just a left-wing hack -- he's got serious mental problems. Krugman told the crowd that the president is […]
The guys over at Common Sense & Wonder have pointed out some details about a New York Times piece on the "shrinking middle class." The conclusion: Yep, the "middle class" has been shrinking -- because more people have been getting rich. The article's most egregious error is the clear implication the percentage of those defined […]
It comes as no surprise that when Congress passes a law as far-reaching as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawyers will find innovative uses for the tools provided. Some enterprising lawyers decided to use the act, which was intended to prevent people from copying DVDs, copy-protected CDs or MP3 files, to prevent the sale of […]