California's saner, senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, demonstrates that you can be to the right of Barbara Boxer and still be a nut. In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Feinstein takes the paper's editors to task for supporting research into a bunker-busting nuke. [Link requires a subscription, but I'll be quoting the entire letter.] […]
Best Blogs: The Washington Post announced the winners of its first "Best Blogs" contest and, sadly, Hoystory.com wasn't even nominated. The winners got a cool logo to put on their blogs, and, feeling slightly slighted, I decided to go and make a logo for the rest of us. Other bloggers can feel free to pilfer […]
CNET News' Declan McCullagh notes that Sen. John Kerry has indicated he might "defang" the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- the law that prevents you from making backup copies of your DVDs, among other things. It's an interesting idea, but I wouldn't bet a plug nickel on it. Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have […]
If you think what appears in The New York Times doesn't have an effect on what you see or hear in your little corner of the country, think again. The Times report on 380 tons of missing high explosive in Iraq appeared in papers across the country. The story has been used by the media […]
I must confess that several years ago I auditioned to be on Bill Maher's show "Politically Incorrect." This was in the late '90s when they were on ABC and they had a period of time that they were having "citizen panelists" on the show once a week. This was long before I started blogging, and […]
I know it sounds like some pornographic movie, but I'm convinced that's what the junior senator from Massachusetts is counting on to deliver on all of these promises he and the Breck girl have made in the campaign. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, President Bush echoed the 9/11 Commission's finding that we […]
Last week, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro took a fall and broke his knee and arm (if I remember correctly). I seldom take joy in other people's suffering -- except when they're an oppressive, murdering dictator -- so I was happy to see Castro in pain. Courtesy of Jay Nordlinger at National Review comes this bit […]
I'm watching "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism." Why? Because I've decided I need a little self-abuse. I rented it from Netflix -- it was easy to get -- unlike FarenHYPE 9/11 which has a "Long Wait." Don't waste your time on this. Seriously. I can't believe I wasted my time on it. The vast […]
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward has published a list of questions that he had proposed as part of an interview with the Democrat presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry. At the end of last year, during 3 1/2 hours of interviews over two days, I asked President Bush hundreds of detailed questions about his actions and […]
Beldar has a couple of related posts on what exactly would happen if Sen. John Kerry becomes president. The first post compares a hypothetical Kerry presidency to what LBJ faced when he considered a run for a second term. My question to you, my thoughtful, principled friend of the center-left, is this: How is John […]