The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to consume journalists everywhere -- even at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Today's A1 has an article by Finlay Lewis of the Copley News Service (the U-T is the Copley Press' flagship paper) on President Bush's trip to Europe for the D-Day comemmoration. The second paragraph: Long a target […]
I'm currently reading the late, great Michael Kelly's "Martyrs' Day," an account of the first Gulf War. The book is very different in style and substance from Rick Atkinson's "In the Company of Soldiers" (which is also an excellent book), but more of a traditional historical account of Gulf War II. Kelly's work is more […]
Let's get this straight. A federal judge in San Francisco rules that a restriction on abortion (in this case a ban on partial birth abortions) is unconstitutional. Talk about a dog-bites-man story. This ruling was as predictable as the sun risiing in the east. This, of course, is not the final word on the subject. […]
The Los Angeles County Supervisors, a cowardly, spineless group has decided to cave to the Anti-Christian Liberals Union. Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday ended an emotional debate over the symbolism of the tiny gold cross on the county seal by deciding to remove it rather than defend it against a threatened ACLU lawsuit. Advised […]
Former New York Times editor Howell Raines has a piece in tomorrow's left-wing Guardian newspaper taking Sen. John Kerry to task for not running a competent campaign. Let's set Raines' arguments aside for a moment and focus on one throwaway statement. As America's first war-hero candidate since John F. Kennedy, he ought to be leading […]
A Christian in Pakistan made the mistake of letting garden clippings touch the wall of a local mosque. For this he was jailed for "blaspheming Islam" and subsequently beaten to death by a "peaceful" muslim cop with a hammer. After being charged with murder, the cop reportedly said: I have offered my religious duty for […]
For more than a half-century, the United Nations has maintained slum "refugee camps" in Gaza and the West Bank. The U.N. also provides ambulances and other infrastructure. From time to time you hear screams of outrage from the Palestinian (Terror) Authority because one of their ambulances, transporting someone who is gravely injured, to a hospital […]
So, if you tax the rich less, does that necessarily mean that you are raising taxes on the poor? Paul Krugman thinks so. Don Luskin disagrees.
A white Ford pickup truck with a bumper sticker. Bumper sticker has picture of a cell phone with a circle around it and a line through it and the words: "Hang up and Drive!" The driver of the vehicle is...on a cell phone.