A few months ago the story of a few Mexican nationals (read: illegal immigrants) was all over the local news. Apparently there had been a report of some shoplifting at a local J.C. Penney store and, depending on who you believe, either J.C. Penney employees, or a cop on his own, stopped and talked to […]
When you're a newspaper and can't even get your own reporter's name right. A transcript of President' Bush's news conference in some copies yesterday misspelled the given name of a reporter mentioned by Mr. Bush in an answer to a question about the administration's response to warnings of hijackings. She was Elisabeth Bumiller of The […]
Conflicted 9/11 commission member Jamie Gorelick is being called on to resign by GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner. Commissioner Gorelick is in the unfair position of trying to address the key issue before the Commission when her own actions are central to the events at issue. The public cannot help but ask legitimate questions about her […]
The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz has an excellent article on the media's favorite anti-Bush 9/11 widow/activists. Any group of relatives of 3,000 people are going to have a wide diversity of views, maybe the media should try to find more than one.
Miss USA, Shandi Finnessey, is a "totally single and looking" Republican, by an odd coincidence, so am I! A Republican, she told Reuters she would use her position to help explain America's involvement in Iraq. "What needed to be done had to be done," she said. So, Shandi and I will be hooking up as […]
I was lucky enough to be able to catch most of President Bush's press conference last night. He did an acceptable job; he'll never be mistaken for Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton when it comes to public speaking. you can find a transcript of the press conference here. I was disappointed that Bush didn't answer […]
Perhaps the biggest problem with the 9/11 commission is the presence of former Clinton administration deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick. Like the others, Gorelick is a political partisan. Unlike the others, Gorelick should be answering questions, not asking them. For those who watched today's 9/11 commission hearings, you saw Attorney General John Ashcroft refer to […]
For those who have heard criticism about President Bush's effort to combat AIDS in Africa, check out James K. Glassman's column for a truth-check.
I just finished John Grisham's latest novel, "The Last Juror." The book is one of Grisham's better novels. "The Last Juror" is told from the point of view of a young journalist who buys the small weekly newspaper in Clanton, Miss., and takes place over a period of about a decade from the late '60s […]