Sen. Chuck Schumer famously expressed skepticism whether then-Alabama Attorney General William Pryor could uphold the law if a case came before him that conflicted with his "deeply held" (religious) beliefs. Republicans, not being complete and total idiots, recognized that this was a code -- though expressly prohibited by the Constitution, the senior senator from New […]
Nicholas Kristof is often misguided, but he is not often as blatantly dishonest as he is in Tuesday's column. Here's a foreign affairs quiz: (1) How many nuclear weapons did North Korea produce in Bill Clinton's eight years of office? (2) How many nuclear weapons has it produced so far in President Bush's four years […]
A reporter and photographer for the Kalamazoo Gazette have been canned for partaking in some adult beverages while doing a story on "beer pong." This is a far cry from a story that was done at The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., under the headline "Plaster gets plastered." The cops reporter, Mike Plaster, was asked […]
This sort of thing happens a lot more in the AL than the NL for one simple reason: if the pitcher goes headhunting, he'll likely get the same treatment when he's up to bat. It makes you think twice. But the AL has gotten rid of that deterrent with the designated hitter. The only way […]
Several months back I mentioned a story about a group of Syrian "musicians" who were behaving a lot like hijackers. Well, there's an update on the story here, which includes this little gem. The first thing I clarified for the agents was that, prior to my experience on flight 327, I had never heard of […]
Paul Krugman thinks the economy is in the tank. Where I come from, we call days like this "Monday."