I just caught former Clinton hatchet-man Paul Begala on CNN's "Situation Room" decrying the "personal attacks" that the Bush administration is making against Democrats (who are peddling the "Bush lied, people died" bolshevick storytelling) and their effort to rewrite history. In an effort to back up his claim that the GOP is doing the "politics […]
You hear all the time that North Korea is one of the world's worst human-rights abusers, but you don't often hear what it takes to earn that moniker. The study recounts, for example, how in November 1996 in North Korea's South Pyongan province, a unit of the North Korean army was tasked with widening a […]
I like National Review Online. I've met Ramesh Ponnuru and he's a great guy. But yesterday they they did something evil. In promoting a John J. Miller article reviewing Sen. Barbara Boxer's new novel (it's best used when you run out of toilet paper), they ran this piece of promo art. Simply said, this graphic […]
For those of you who missed Robert J. Samuelson's Wednesday column in The Washington Post, you should check it out. Samuelson slams the AARP for defending the status quo when it comes to Social Security -- with good reason. This year AARP spent $25 million, mostly on TV and print ads, to defeat President Bush's […]
It happens at newspapers large and small and Tuesday's Bakersfield Californian details its own case of journalistic malpractice. Before she was fired Oct. 17 for plagiarism and fabrication, former Bakersfield Californian reporter Nada Behziz signed her name to 96 stories. A Californian investigation shows more than a third contain a variety of serious problems including […]