I just finished David Hackett Fischer's history of the winter campaign of 1776-77. Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware was but the start of this period that Hackett argues was key to the success of the Revolutionary War. I'm usually hesitant to "ruin" the ending of the book, but Fischer has something to say about […]
National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru follows up on Sen. John Kerry's dubious Social Security scaremongering that I noted earlier this week. The campaign has backed off its claim that Goolsbee's study tells us anything about benefit levels under a Bush-style reform. They have also gotten rid of all the language that claims that today's retirees would […]
Fox News just played a clip of Sen. John Kerry out on the stump again today and he had this to say -- likening current times to the Vietnam era: As I look out at these faces, these are the same kinds of times. Mothers and families distressed and torn apart over what's happening, young […]
I just added the Fahrenhype 9/11 documentary due out next month to my Netflix.com rental queue. After doing this, I was presented with the "Other Movies You Might Enjoy" screen, which included: "Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy." If a human can explain the connection, I'd be interested to do know what it is.
When most people -- Democrats especially -- think of "crimes" committed by a secretary of state former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris typically comes to mind. However, we here in California have our own really corrupt secretary of state, Kevin Shelley. The Sacramento Bee has been reporting that Shelley has been using federal funds […]
National Review's Jim Geraghty has lots of good stuff over at the "Kerry Spot." First, Geraghty points out what Kerry should've had on his schedule today if he'd been running a half-way competent campaign. Kerry just made two moves that I think are tremendously boneheaded mistakes. The left and the right agree that Iraq is […]
Proving that no campy 1980s flick is safe from excessive commercialism, they're making a musical out of the movie.
At many jobs I've held both pre-journalism and now in the news business, that's one question that has occasionally come to mind as I've encountered people suffering from prodigious stupidity. Well, Fox News has dug up an incident that should've gotten the CBS News producer behind the forged documents story fired years ago. It is […]
Liberal interest groups like People for the American Way are already putting out stories that evil, racist Republicans are trying to keep blacks from voting Democratic. Millions of U.S. citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal barriers, faulty procedures or […]
I'm watching CNN's "Inside Politics" and they're reporting on Sen. John Kerry's promise to do nothing about Social Security's structural flaws and continue down the merry road to destruction. No, that's not how they're characterizing it, but that's the reality. Kerry is promising to never privatize Social Security. Fine. Kerry also was touting a study […]