Salon's Eric Boehlert takes the occasion of the announcement of New York Times columnist William Safire's retirement to take him to task for decades of mistakes and inaccuracies. I'm not going to defend Safire, he's certainly made errors and not corrected them, but Boehlert's outrage is conspicuously constrained to Safire. The problem Boehlert describes is […]
Are you a Republican? Then you are dumb, dumb, dumb -- and greedy. News reports last week showing that Republicans are a miniscule minority in the ivory towers of academia, unsurprisingly, has brought out the smarter-than-thou Democrats. To the Editor: Re "Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find" (news article, Nov. 18): Would it be surprising […]
I didn't approve of judge Roy Moore's move to put a Ten Commandments monument in an Alabama courthouse -- he was just trying to pick a fight. However, the repeated lawsuits by bitter, disgruntled atheists to remove anything that anyone could consider Christian from the public square is just as bad. Unfortunately, while Judge Moore […]
It shouldn't come as any surprise that The New York Times editorial page writers use language in such a way that it becomes meaningless. Case in point is this editorial in last week's paper on a proposed cloning ban at the U.N. Seeing as how it is the U.N., any measure would be mainly meaningless […]