Democrat presidential wannabe Howard Dean has stuck his foot in his mouth again. Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as "silly" a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson's bodice was ripped to expose […]
In the wake of the damning Hutton report that accused the BBC of "sexing up" its anti-war reporting, the San Diego Union-Tribune's own James Goldsborough comes to the BBC's defense. The BBC is no longer one of the "world's great news organizations" -- despite Goldsborough's protestations. Goldsborough is defending the Beeb because its war "reporting" […]
From today's "Best of the Web Today" we get the following highlights from an appearance by Howard Dean on yesterday's "Meet the Press." On "Meet the Press" yesterday Howard Dean had this exchange with host Tim Russert: Russert: And what about this pay from the special interests five times for speeches? Dean: In 12 years […]
First, on the domestic front, we have an article by Jim Geraghty over at National Review Online about Democrat presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark. The article is the best attempt I've seen to explain why Gen. Hugh Shelton slammed Clark over "honesty and integrity" issues. Interviews with a wide variety of current and retired military […]
I just finished Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" today. I started it yesterday. It's 528 pages. Is it good? Yep. Is it fun? Yep. Should you buy it? Yep. First off, let's get one thing out of the way. I bought the book because it was cheap for a hardback and I'd read a wire story about […]
Reporter Andrew Gilligan should have been the first one sacked at the BBC over his faulty reporting, instead he is the third. Take solace, Andrew, Al Jazeera has openings.
Two must reads on the Democrats Judiciary Committee memos "scandal." First check out the Wall Street Journal. Once you're done there, take a gander at Byron York's report over at NRO.
Do you remember when U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix reported to the U.N. that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and that he had complied with U.N. resolution 1441? No. Well New York Times columnist Paul Krugman does. Surely even supporters of the Iraq war must be dismayed by the administration's reaction […]
Today's New York Times has a letter from a former State Department official during the Reagan administration. The writer makes an excellent point: To the Editor: Something has skewed what should be the obvious public take on the American intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (front page, Jan. 29). It is a fact that […]
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I was looking forward to reading what Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough would have to say regarding the results of the Hutton Inquiry and its indictment of the BBC's "journalism." Well, you can find his Thursday column here. The column actually takes a dual path, condemning Bush on […]