The New York Times has an editorial today complaining about the jailing of their reporter, Judith Miller, for refusing to reveal her source in the nadagate investigation. In the days after Ms. Miller's arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that three countries harassed or jailed journalists while pressuring them to reveal their sources. Which […]
I've got the coverage of the space shuttle Discovery's return on the TV and the whole thing strikes me as odd. (Their first landing window is officially a no-go -- they'll orbit the Earth again.) The first space shuttle took flight in 1981, when I was 9-years-old. I don't think we even had our first […]
This is old news, you might have seen it before, but amid the homebuying frenzy Muslims in America are sometimes left out. Why? Because Islam forbids paying interest. Of course, that's nothing American ingenuity can't solve, so banks have come up with "Islamic mortgages." This allows Muslims to buy homes without paying interest. What it […]
There's plenty of whining about President Bush's "vacation" at his Texas ranch -- according to Fox News' Chris Wallace it will be 33 days long. I confess, it's far more vacation time than I get -- or most other Americans get. Of course, when I go on vacation, I'm not designing pages for the Union-Tribune. […]
Sixty years ago this weekend, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. I must confess that I've little sympathy for the ignorant peace protesters who come out every year to demand unilateral nuclear disarmament. Sixty years after the fact, too many just don't get it, and the ones that do -- […]
If you're a journalist attempting to assuage readers' concerns about your ethics, you shouldn't do that by flaunting your stupidity. The Los Angeles Times' Dana Parsons ignores this basic rule. Have I ever illegally recorded a phone conversation? I can unequivocally deny that, because I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to rig a tape […]
From today's New York Times editorial page (boy, I'm gonna miss it when they start charging): Some Caveats on Job Growth The 207,000 new jobs created in July are a boon to the people who landed them. But American workers are not yet in a position of strength. [. .] because a Democrat is not […]
If the rules allowed it, SoundPolitics.com's Stefan Sharkansky would receive the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Sharkansky is no Hemingway, but he alone has done more to expose the disaster that is the King County (Washington) elections department than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times combined. In addition to doing extensive research on voterless ballots, […]
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, released another dull videotape yesterday -- and showed that he's qualified to write on economics for The New York Times op-ed page. Our message to you is clear and unequivocal:You will not be saved unless you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and our resources [Fox News […]