This is the most bizarre "editor's note" I've seen in years. The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the […]
The Union-Tribune obituary is here. Stockdale, the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, was forced to wear heavy, viselike leg irons for two years. He was tortured and spent four years in solitary confinement. To avoid being used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face with a mahogany stool. After the death of […]
Iowahawk channels terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, and thwack's the Kos Kidz. [Beware: Salty language]
Fox Butterfield is a New York Times reporter who periodically has people point at him and laugh. Why? Because of articles like this one. The number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 2.1 percent last year, even as violent crime and property crime fell, according to a study by the Justice Department released […]