For a couple of decades now, the ACLU and various local athiests have been on a (pardon the pun) crusade to remove crosses from public land. One of the first cases was of the cross atop Mt. Helix in La Mesa. The city of La Mesa managed to wrangle out of the ACLU's hold by […]
I've often written that the United Nations is a mostly-useless organization. Some of the world's worst abusers of human rights are regularly placed on its Human Rights committee; the Middle East's lone democracy is regularly attacked by racist Arab and Muslim nations; it regularly ignores massacres and genocide around the world; and the list goes […]
When I saw this story come over the wires, I just had to laugh. An Egyptian court has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that President Hosni Mubarak has violated the Egyptian constitution because he has failed to appoint a vice president. Wait, it gets worse better. Mubarak has previously defended the absence of a vice president […]
P.J. O'Rourke also pops up on today's Wall Street Journal op-ed page. [link for subscribers only] Go check it out. Hopefully they'll put it up on the free OpinionJournal.com site this weekend. In the piece, O'Rourke humorously advocates the U.S. "recusing" itself from the rest of the world. To tide you over and pique your […]
The New York Times is at it again. The first four paragraphs of its story on inaccuracies in political ads is Exhibit #9869872378235983374507324907. A record year for political advertising has brought with it a hail of televised exaggerations, omissions and mischaracterizations that pollsters say seem to be leaving voters with mistaken impressions of Senator John […]
Filmmaker Michael Moore is as dishonest in print as he is on film -- as Fred Barnes recently discovered. A FEW YEARS AGO Michael Moore, who's now promoting an anti-President Bush movie entitled Fahrenheit 9/11, announced he'd gotten the goods on me, indeed hung me out to dry on my own words. It was in […]
The Pew Center for the People and the Press has released its latest survey of the American media and revealed the shocking fact that the media is far more liberal than the general public. In fact, the press is even more liberal than it admits to being. The ideological classification in the survey is a […]
I finished P.J. O'Rourke's latest offering in just over two days. It's a fun read and you know you'll get funny looks when people read the cover: "Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism." The book is not really a cohesive whole, but each chapter is a series of both serious and humorous observations not only […]
So I watched NBC's "Meet the Press." The segment of interest was a "debate" between Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter and Democrat presidential hopeful, Dennis Kucinich. First, does Dennis Kucinich really represent the Democratic Party on the issue of Iraq? Or is this really a case of conservative media bias? Second, when is Kucinich going to […]