Claudia Rosett has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal on North Korea and the U.N. Kofi Annan was at pains in his recent "Meet the Press" interview to stress that he sees the U.N. as a "unique organization," one "that can bring the whole world together." To bring the whole world together, given how […]
Well, I went over to the sewer of American left political thought to see if Kos was happy to see Nick Berg -- a mercenary according to Kos' worldview -- dead. It turns out Kos isn't happy Berg is dead -- a definite improvement. Maybe the uproar over his "screw them" comment has taught him […]
I was talking to one of my colleagues at the Union-Tribune photo editor and former pirate radio movie reviewer David Poller, who had this to say about "Van Helsing:" Wait 'til it comes out on video, then don't see it. You've been warned.
We've had almost a week of wall-to-wall coverage of the Iraqi prisoner abuse (not torture) scandal. It was inevitable that something would come along eventually and replace it. It's unfortunate that it had to be something like this. A video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian […]
Paul Krugman is at it again, with a column full of distortions and half-truths. Just trust us, John Ashcroft said, as he demanded that Congress pass the Patriot Act, no questions asked. After two and a half years, during which he arrested and secretly detained more than a thousand people, Mr. Ashcroft has yet to […]
I know it's a day after Mother's Day and all. But I'm watching CNN and some talking head is describing how torture at places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq start out with seemingly minor things and escalate. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo described one of the tortures: ...had them clean toilet bowls out with their bare […]
Lying, hate-filled, arrogant, et cetera, ad infinitum fillmmaker created a brouhaha last week when he accused Disney of violating his First Amendment rights by refusing to distribute his latest film pack of lies. Well, a day later it came out that Moore knew long ago that Disney wouldn't be distributing his film. The entire story […]
It's long since passed that partisan politics stopped at the water's edge. Nowadays partisan politics comes even before the national good (for Republicans to a lesser degree, and to Democrats a greater degree). So, it should come as no surprise that the Kerry 2004 campaign sent out a fund-raising letter highlighting the abuses at the […]
I'm watching NBC's "Meet the Press" and about five minutes in I think I've watched all I can of it. One of the panelists there to talk about the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison in former Democrat presidential hopeful and retired Gen. Wesley Clark. If there's any question whether or not Clark is a […]