You'll forgive me if I'm incredibly unimpressed by any claims that "growing the economy" can save a Ponzi scheme -- something that would get anyone other than the government a long time in the pokey. Leading the media ostrich charge is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who took a break from his break to […]
Last week, a Democrat elector in Minnesota had a "senior moment" and mistakenly voted for Sen. John Edwards for president and vice president. If that wasn't bad enough, we find out today that the electors for New York screwed up too, casting their votes for "John L. Kerry." So, it looks like the final electoral […]
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Two weeks ago there was a huge media brouhaha over a national guardsman's question to Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld about a lack of armored Humvees and how the soldiers were digging through junkyards to come up with spare bits of metal to reinforce their humvees. The entire issue also became a subject of journalism ethics […]
The San Diego Chargers clinched the AFC West with today's 21-0 victory over the Cleveland Browns. The AP story, however, contains some hometown bias. San Diego caught a break on a questionable roughing-the-kicker call and Tomlinson scored on a plunge for a 7-0 lead. It wasn't a questionable call in the slightest. The TV commentators […]
A story came over the wire yesterday on a Cornell University survey that shows *horror* that Americans believe Muslims are more likely to be terrorists -- fancy that. Of course, the survey wasn't phrased in quite that way. Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, […]
HonestReporting.com has released its "Dishonest Reporting" awards for 2004. Check it out.
Steven Vincent, author of "In the Red Zone," has an excellent piece on his blog on the "Politics of Grief." Photography—the visual media in general—is ill-suited for conveying the abstract thoughts and concepts that provide context for images. The once-living soldier’s face, the flag-draped coffin, the brave war widow make us feel profound worlds of […]
The State Department finally stopped pretending to believe the fiction that the murderous part of the violent Palestinian group Hamas can somehow be separated from its "nonviolent" arms. he United States on Friday designated al-Manar television -- the mouthpiece of Lebanon's Hizbollah anti-Israel guerrillas -- a terrorist organization, prompting an end to its U.S. satellite […]
Several months ago I predicted that a sympathetic judge would let Kerri Francis Dunn, the college professor that vandalized her own car with racist slurs, off with a slap on the wrist. I suspect that a sympathetic judge will probably let Dunn off with a slap on the wrist -- probation and a sizable fine. […]