Today's New York Times has an editorial decrying the lack of promised democracy in Hong Kong. Despite the shady campaign tactics and problems at voting sites, we hope that there was a lesson for Beijing in the results and that Sunday's vote was not a complete loss for the forces of openness. Democracy advocates increased […]
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ABC News and The Washington Post have pieces on CBS News' decision to ignore some of the document experts they hired who cautioned them against using the fraudulent memos. The New York Times in typical fashion, reports that Lt. Col. Jerry Killian's secretary, Marian Carr Knox -- who would've typed the documents -- says the […]
think again. Reuters reports that it takes a long time to get treatment in Canada. Canada often boasts its universal health care program shows it is more caring than the United States, but the system is creaking alarmingly, with long wait lists for treatment, and shortages of cash and doctors. ... As the politicians bicker, […]
It's gone. The thing was useless anyway -- based on not what particular guns could do, but instead what they looked like. MoveOn PAC's latest ad is, according to the sometimes nonpartisan FactCheck.org "about as misleading as it can be." Through words, graphics and sound effects, it invites viewers to think that the expiration of […]
According to CNN founder Reese Schoenfeld, CBS News managing editor Dan Rather is an empty-headed automaton -- and that's a compliment. On Tuesday night's "Hannity and Colmes" on Fox News, Schoenfeld had the following to say when the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell suggested that Rather should step down until a complete investigation of the […]
Hoystory will not refer to this scandal as others have -- by using CBS newsman Dan Rather's surname and appending "-gate" -- because the construction is contrived, overdone and annoying. Now that I've gotten that out of the way, the only people left who believe these documents are genuine are the Kool Aid drinkers on […]
When I saw this in the Sunday paper, my blood began to boil. Sen. John F. Kerry vowed Saturday to "fight tooth and nail" to ensure every African American vote was counted in the November election, saying Democrats would not "stand by and allow acts of voter suppression." The Democratic presidential nominee stepped up criticism […]
Keep this on your clipboard whenever your Democrat friends complain about the "vicious" attack ads that the Bush/Cheney campaign and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are airing. Who's Counting? $106,124,400: Estimated amount spent on TV ads by President Bush's campaign and pro-Republican groups since March. $181,792,922: Estimated amount spent on TV ads by the Kerry […]
I wish I'd been around Friday night to see it, but National Review's Jim Geraghty gives Dan Rather's performance that night a solid fisking which is well worth your time. I'll post more on this entire issue later, but I wanted to point out this part of Rather's introduction. Today on the Internet and elsewhere, […]