Litigious atheist Michael Newdow made his case in federal court yesterday to try to halt any sort of prayers at the Jan. 20 inauguration. If you simply looked at the state of the law -- Newdow would win. Yes, that's the logical conclusion of the Supreme Court's church-state separation rulings. The judge read aloud an […]
I watched the webcast version of the discussion between Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer on the role of international law as it relates to the American judiciary. I was repeatedly shocked by Breyer's comments. [You can watch the entire event here. It's about 90 minutes long. RealPlayer required.] Hindrocket over at Powerline […]
Los Angeles Times columnist Margaret Carlson's response to the CBS News forged memos fiasco is to blame the Bush administration for lying and/or punishing people for telling the truth. However, in her zeal to really stick it to Republicans, Carlson peddles a long-discredited lie. In the Bush administration, you lose your job not for lying […]
I've got something for New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to ponder: Maybe it's just you.
I've often said that more left-wing activists are foul-mouthed jackasses than are right-wing activists. Go to any anti-war rally or visit Democratic Underground (aka DUMB, aka the sewer) or visit most lefty blogs and you'll find more f-words than the script of most major Hollywood releases. Today's case in point is columnist Michelle Malkin's hate […]
Steven Vincent, the author of the must-read book on Iraq "In the Red Zone," notices an interesting dichotomy in the media describes people. Once again, the same media phenomenon: take a "nationalist" gunman, put a mask on him and set him in some Spanish speaking country and he becomes a "paramilitary"--or, as Newsweek has it, […]
One of the problems newspapers sometimes encounter is a disconnect with the communities they cover. It's not an uncommon occurrence for any large company, but it can be especially damaging to newspapers who need to tell the stories of a diverse audience. At least once a year at The San Diego Union-Tribune the paper's editor […]
Victoria Toensing and Bruce W. Stanford have a piece in today's Washington Post outlining the law and what is required for having named liar Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent. At the threshold, the agent must truly be covert. Her status as undercover must be classified, and she must have been assigned […]
By way of the Media Research Center, the founding producer of "60 Minutes," Don Hewitt said the following at a Monday morning meeting at CBS: Does anybody really think there wouldn't have been more scrutiny if this had been about John Kerry? Exactly. That's the bias issue in a nutshell.
One of the items that has been the subject of guffaws and charges of "whitewash" on the right side of the blogosphere regarding the independent report on the CBS forged documents fiasco is the "finding" that there was no political bias behind the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report. Both Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were asked […]