I spent most of yesterday with Madeline, the world's greatest niece, so I haven't really had nearly enough time to read through the fake Bush Guard documents report and its various appendicies. However, for the Columbia Journalism Review and other individuals who read only the primary report and note that the report doesn't say the […]
CBS News has finally released its report on the fake Bush National Guard documents story. The complete report, 200+ pages worth and affiliated documents, can be found here. CBS has fired four people, including producer Mary Mapes, but not anchor Dan "you can take it to the bank" Rather. I'll read the report today and […]
Worth your time and perusal: The Wall Street Journal's John Fund has an excellent article on the goings on in Washington State. Highlight: Not all of the voters at the county building are homeless or hard to find. A noted local judge and her husband have been registered at the county building for years. When […]
On Friday, USA Today broke the story that the Education Department had paid syndicated columnist and radio/TV pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. Tribune Media Services, Williams' syndicate, subsequently fired him. (An apology from Williams can be found here.) Let me first reveal that I have never been paid […]
The next time your local liberal professor defends the lack of intellectual or political diversity in the academy with claims that conservatives are too stupid to be college professors, you might want to point them to this article in the Miami Herald. When the Nigerian government e-mailed University of Miami law professor Enrique Fernandez-Barros for […]
Today's New York Times "Week in Review" section has a useful Q&A on the Social Security issue -- maybe Paul Krugman should read it. Q. People are throwing around doomsday years for Social Security. Is it really running out of money? A. Not any time soon. The system currently takes in far more in payroll […]
On my way home this evening, I was listening to the radio when the 9 p.m. news report came on courtesy of CBS Radio News. The subject of the news report was GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's formal challenge of the election in Washington State. The report contained two quotes from the state Democratic Party […]
From the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, I present: Nirvana. This is a 102-inch TV set. This is really cool. No word on the possible retail price of this super-boob tube, but I'm pretty confident that it's beyond my means.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer is reportedly considering objecting to the counting of Ohio's electoral votes because of voting irregularities. Let us review: President Bush won Ohio by more than 100,000 votes out of about 5.5 million cast. For this, Boxer and a few loony left liberals in the House are considering raising an objection which […]
The idiot of the day is the principal of Westminster High School in Westminster, Md. Curiously, the principal isn't named in the story. Apparently it is the policy of the school that when there is a fire everyone is to evacuate the building -- except the two students who are in wheelchairs. They get to […]