So, I sent an e-mail to Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times requesting corrections earlier this week. My e-mail: Ms. Collins, in light of your Sunday "Letter from the editor" reflecting your committment to accuracy on the editorial pages, I thought I would bring one error -- committed twice -- to […]
I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about the president's nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. I'm certainly not excited by her nomination, probably because Democrats aren't going ape. Miers, if confirmed, may turn out to be a good justice. (Yes, by "good" I mean "votes the way I […]
Today's New York Times finally runs an article on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitee's illegal accesssing of Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit report, more than two weeks after the story first broke. But the article is really a case study on spin -- how to provide all the facts, but mislead and obsfucate in […]
Earlier this week I wrote far too much about Bill Bennett's reductio ad absurdum that it can be dangerous to take a flyer on the possibility that we wouldn't have a Social Security crisis if all of those 30+ million aborted future workers were around to fund grandma's Social Security check. Bennett illustrated the danger […]
The Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz, an excellent journalist, wrote an article yesterday about the paper's daily internal review of the paper's coverage. One thing that's caught some readers' eyes is this bit (but you should read the entire thing): On Thursday, Book World Editor Marie Arana, noting that she had been "a Young […]
Over at The New York Times, America's paper of record is again sitting on a politically inconvenient story. A couple of months ago took the Times several weeks to finally report on the liberal talk radio network Air America taking money from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx. Now, the Times […]
Former House Majority leader Tom DeLay was indicted again today, apparently after DeLay's lawyers pointed out that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle shouldn't be practicing law -- or at least should be practicing a whole lot more because he sure doesn't have it down. Travis County prosecutors rushed Monday to fix problems with an […]
OK, my biggest complaint thus far about the president's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is the fact that there should be a "y" somewhere in her last name. The thing that worries me most about Miers is what her judicial philosophy really is and how "deeply-held" it is. I like my Constitution dead […]
I avoided commenting on the Bill Bennett dust-up over the past few days because most of what I would've written had been stated elsewhere. See here, here and here. That last link highlights our hypocrite of the week NPR/Fox News' Juan Williams. While condemning Bennett for making the true, but offensive, observation that aborting all […]
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