Favorite brother-in-law Ronald W. Short, Jr., on his Master of Divinity degree (summa cum laude) from Bethel Seminary in San Diego. Ronnie will be taking a position as a "Pastor of Christian Education" in Rhode Island -- a cold and desolate place, devoid of happy human habitation. Just last night, favorite niece Madeline voiced her […]
Saddam's widowed daughters (widowed due to Saddam killing their husbands) are interviewed in an Arab women's weekly magazine. Setting a new mark Guiness Book of World Records for "gall," the privileged daughters of a mass-murdering tyrant had this to say: "I'm not afraid of death, but of scandal," she told the magazine. When asked to […]
Our favorite cousin named "Bonnie Stokes" on her graduation from the University of California San Diego with a bachelor's degree. Law school is up next for Ms. Stokes and I'm looking forward to having a lawyer in the family.
U.N. inspectors are reporting that Saddam Hussien smuggled out a lot of banned weapons in months before the liberation of Iraq. The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, […]
Smash went undercover up at last weekend's commie A.N.S.W.E.R. protest up in Los Angeles. His report is amusing and scary. Smash also spotted San Diego's own commie-redhead who threatened to fight a guy twice his size -- he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Fortunately for them, these wackos are ignored by the vast […]
The transcript can be found here. Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us. Well said.
Once more, the Union-Tribune moderate-conservative editorially, but definitely liberal in the newsroom. Tonight, when Reagan's name came up one copy editor said: "Reagan disgusted me and he disgusted the American people." The former I can't dispute, but the latter? A Fox News Poll (scroll way down) shows that 65 percent of Americans say they supported […]
New York Times talentless hack columnist Paul Krugman continues his crusade to minimize Reagan's legacy and trash his own economic credentials a column at a time. I'll let Don Luskin and others pick apart Krugman's economics, but one juxtaposition in Krugman's column demonstrated that Krugman is only interested in making partisan points. The architect of […]
One of America's greatest musicians, Ray Charles, died today at 73. They played both his excellent version of "You Are My Sunshine," and, his rendition of (and perhaps the best version ever done of) "America the Beautiful," on the radio on my way into work today. The guy had talent by the truckloads. He will […]
Editorially, the San Diego Union-Tribune is moderate-to-right on the political spectrum. Those offices are on the fourth floor. On the third floor is the newsroom. The newsroom is largely left-to-very-left. So, I was only moderately surprised when I walked by and heard an editor opining on Ronald Reagan's legacy and state that the reporting ignored […]