I must confess that I don't watch much of Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. But somehow, I don't buy a whole lot of this. OJR: How would you describe yourself politically on the liberal-to-conservative spectrum? How important do you think it is for MSM to be transparent on their political affiliations? KO: I'm not political. I […]
Some poor guy jumped off the Empire State Building last week to his death. Today's New York Times has a soft feature piece on the history of jumpers and also how they've been covered. One item caught my attention as I read the piece. That is why the city has a kind of procedure for […]
Today's New York Times has a much-touted article (it was teased earlier in the day on Drudge) on prisoner "abuse" at Guantanamo. Let me start out by pointing out what the Times fails to note. All of the individuals incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay were captured on the battlefield bearing arms against the United States. They […]
Just returned from watching the new Nicholas Cage film "National Treasure." Overall, it's a really fun movie and worth checking out. Unlike many of today's action-adventure movies, the language is incredibly clean. You never really miss the standard slew of cuss words, and after it's over it's actually kind of refreshing. When will Hollywood filmmakers […]
Today's New York Post has an article by the Heritage Foundation's Peter Brookes on the emergence of an oil-hungry China. The bad news: don't expect gas prices in the $1.50 a gallon range any time soon (if ever again). The good news, it should now be obvious that the Kyoto Global Warming protocol had little […]
I mentioned last week that the outrageously close Washington gubernatorial race reinforced the need to ensure that our elections are not stolen through fraud. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund weighed in today with similar sentiments -- and that it may already be too late. That set off a legal fracas over the 929 people […]
When I first saw the report about the arrest of a North Carolina journalist who'd called a source and left three messages requesting a comment I thought the justice system in the state had gone completely nuts. The woman, instead of just calling back and telling the reporter she had nothing to say, instead went […]
One of the biggest news stories in San Diego County when I was in high school was the murder of 20-year-old Cara Knott whose body was found off the I-15 Mercy Road offramp. Cara's uncle taught German at Helix High School, where I went to school, was a member of my church and knew my […]
A South Korean woman is walking for the first time in 20 years thanks to an injection of stem cells -- from umbilical cord blood. Once again, another success and no embryos were destroyed in the making. Why is the state of California spending $10 billion on embryonic stem cell research? Because only taxpayer money […]
Eleanor Clift supports former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's bid to head the Democratic National Committee. Clift claims that Dean is really a "centrist" a la former President Bill Clinton. If Dean is a centrist, then the Democrat Party is further left than even I thought it was. (OK, that's a lie -- I always knew […]