The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is once again in the news because its chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry, has decided that term limits don't apply to her. Mary Frances Berry's term as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ended at midnight Sunday, but as of this writing she maintains that her term […]
California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, and outlined the tenets of the Democratic Party: Budget deficits are "immoral," partial-birth abortion is not.
Nelson Polite, a city councilman in Lancaster City, Pa., is a complete idiot -- there's no way to sugarcoat it. David Stoltzfus says there's only one reason he would take down the photos of President George W. Bush that he has displayed at his Central Market baked-goods stand. Bush would have had to have lost […]
The Sunday New York Times "Week in Review" weighs in on the California schoolteacher who got in trouble for mentioning the big guy in class. Now, I haven't been in Steven J. Williams' fifth-grade class, but unless the 38-year-old Williams is very new to teaching, he would have been fired long ago had he actually […]
Over at National Review's The Corner, John J. Miller points out this story from The Washington POst about a rash of items missing from the National Archives -- it turns out the movie "National Treasure" isn't so far-fetched. Hundreds of letters and photographs are missing from the National Archives and its regional offices, including one […]
I've been keeping a close eye over at Poynter.org to see what fallout, if any, there is from Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to call it quits. While going through the letters, I came across one from Dan Walsh and immediately thought: Correct! He's got it! Re -- Young readers of op-ed pages. Memo to […]
The Associated Press ran a story on the wires late yesterday on Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough's decision to quit his cushy job [I characterize it that way because I'd love to have it] because publisher David Copley spiked his Monday column. If you've ever wanted evidence that the mainstream media tilts left, this article has […]
Today's Wall Street Journal rips into the International Committee of the Red Cross over the leak earlier this week of their "report" to The New York Times. If you read my dissection of the Times story earlier this week, then many of the points made by the Journal will be familiar to you. Still, it's […]
I must confess that I was a little wary of a book about the aftermath of the Iraq War written by someone who actually acknowledges being an "art critic." By the time I actually began reading Steven Vincent's "In the Red Zone: A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq," any reservations I had quickly vanished. […]
The Union-Tribune's often infuriating liberal columnist James Goldsborough has quit. The news broke late yesterday afternoon and there was a lot of bewilderment in the newsroom. Goldsborough said the reason he was given after the fact is that the column, about why Jewish voters overwhelmingly cast their presidential ballots for John Kerry, was "offensive." "The […]