Some have questioned whether I support President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security. The answer is: I don't know. I don't know what exactly Bush's plan is, because he has said that he doesn't want to "negotiate with himself." However, what really galls me (if it wasn't clear from this post) is anyone who […]
When you typically ask a professional journalist why they decided to get into that profession, the answer you all too often get is something related to changing the world or helping the downtrodden. (See Coleman, Nick.) I'm an anomaly. I got into journalism because I love to write. Have I gotten excited when I uncovered […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has returned from his all-too-brief vacation to read a book with what promises to be a series of articles arguing that Social Security is not in trouble, and everything will be OK for 100+ years to come. Krugman's got some beauts in the column and a longer piece in […]
The right to speak your mind only applies to liberals. That may sound like some sort of stupid joke, but the American left all too often behaves as it is true. When you criticize some sophomoric Hollywood star who has taken it upon themselves to be the font of all that is right and good […]
One of the sillier new laws that the California nanny state has passed requires people to turn on their lights if they're using their windshield wipers. This law was brought to us courtesy of state legislator Joe Simitian's "It Ought to be a Law" contest. The only thing sillier than this law itself is the […]
Broadcasting & Cable is reporting an effort by CBS News to try to convince the White House that it is not a subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Heyward was “working overtime to convince Bartlett that neither CBS News nor Rather had a vendetta against the White House,” our source says, “and from here on out […]
It's not often that I go out on a limb and give well-intentioned advice to America's minority party. I'm going to do it this time because if what Matt Drudge is reporting is true, then the Dems are not only going to shoot themselves in the proverbial foot with the American people, but also hurt […]
Cal, by looking like it was already hibernating when it played Texas Tech, demonstrated that it was a correct decision to give them "the shaft" and put Texas in the BCS. Utah's spanking of an 8-3 Pitt team demonstrated that they should've been playing against Auburn in the Sugar Bowl.
Slate's Mickey Kaus complains that a computerized voting machine malfunction in North Carolina is causing the state to have re-vote for agricultural commissioner. Apparently, some of the machines "lost" more votes than the margin of victory for that office. The Instapundit's response to this is: "I told you so!" Reynolds references an article he wrote […]