Julian Sanchez points out that the outrageous Dick Cheney quote from yesterday isn't quite as outrageous as the press has made it seem. As I read this, he's not saying the danger is that if we elect Kerry, then the danger is that we'll be attacked. He's saying that if we elect Kerry and we're […]
According to Editor & Publisher a grand total of nine reporters were arrested and held for varying periods of time during last week's Republican National Convention. The reporters held for the longest period of time were not credentialed and weren't from major, mainstream publications. The kicker to this whole story, however is the complaint that […]
Today's Boston Globe article on President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam era is Exhibit A in a double standard in the mainstream media. Let's set aside for a moment that Bush has ordered the Pentagon to make available to the press all of his military service records and Sen. John Kerry has not. […]
Columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, got some heat from the American left when he suggested that former Vice President Al Gore was, in his clinical opinion, "nuts." Another medical doctor has added his considered opinion in a letter to the editor in the October 2004 edition of The Atlantic magazine on President George W. Bush's […]
Last month, the people of Venezuela went to the polls to vote on whether or not to recall their strong-arm, Castro-loving dictator Hugo Chavez. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens had signed petitions to bring the issue to a vote -- and then a massive fraud occurred. Exit polls had the recall effort succeeding by […]