Who were the biggest winners last night? ABC and the NFL. With a hockey game breaking out at the Pacers/Pistons game, the dropped towel from Monday Night Football will be completely forgotten. ESPN showed the brawl over and over again on SportsCenter and it's certainly the biggest, ugliest fight I've ever seen in professional sports. […]
Sometimes the United Nations is even worse than useless. Today, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted what the news media has been reporting for a year -- that U.N. "peacekeepers" in the Congo have been sexually abusing women and children they were supposed to protect.
The Washington Post has decided to follow The New York Times' lead and stop running "cartoonist" Ted Rall's disgusting drawings. Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to […]
This quote from yesterday's dedication ceremony for the Clinton Presidential Library just begs for a snarky comment. The library "is like my husband: it's open, it's expansive, it's welcoming, it's filled with life." – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Please feel free to make use of the comments.
I posted a short note earlier this week on the video showing a Marine shooting an insurgent in Fallujah who was feigning death. I'm watching last night's "O'Reilly Factor" and Bill has a naive and dangerous Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch on suggesting that the Marine should face a court-martial for his actions. (Personally, […]
Al Hunt's column in today's Wall Street Journal is entitled "McCain-Feingold Did Its Job" -- an analysis that is laughable to say the least. [Link requires paid subscription.] The most compelling case for the success of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance measure is the case that was made against it. This was a passionately contested national election, […]
Monday night on MSNBC's "Hardball" program, Chris Matthews had the posed the following question to a guest in connection with the shooting of a possibly unarmed insurgent feigning death: Well, let me ask you about this. If this were the other side, and we were watching an enemy soldier -- a rival, I mean they're […]
NASA's X-43A Scramjet set a new speed record for an air-breathing aircraft, reaching nearly 7,000 mph. Someday, San Diego to Rhode Island in just 30 minutes.
The media is making a big hubbub out of a videotape of a Marine killing an apparently wounded insurgent who appears to be faking death. Buried in the CNN story is a fact that has a significant impact on why the Marine might have behaved with an excess of caution. About a block away, a […]