It's been four years. I'm still writing. You're still reading. Keep up the good work.
It's been four years. I'm still writing. You're still reading. Keep up the good work.
Let me start out by saying that any journalist -- or anyone else for that matter -- who uses "meshing" as a way to determine whether any document is authentic or not should be cast out into the wilderness to the sound of the rending of garmets and the gnashing of teeth. Yet, former CBS […]
The Los Angeles Times has decided to dump it's ultraliberal columnist and its conservative cartoonist. (Or, as the mainstream media would characterize them, it's liberal columnist and ultraconservative cartoonist.) I've always been in favor of intellectual diversity on newspaper opinion pages -- and that includes left-wing conspiracy theory wackos like Robert Scheer. For those still […]
Today's inspiring Veterans Day story comes to us courtesy of the Detroit News. Read it.
Whenever it's suggested that something one of our liberal elected officials says or does would hurt the troops overseas or America as a nation -- their patriotism is being questioned. They immediately get indignant, then outraged. This happened repeatedly during the 2004 presidential campaign, and continues today. Earlier today, when the House GOP imploded on […]
Don Luskin has spent the last month-plus annoying the beejeezus out of New York Times public editor Byron Calame in an attempt to get corrections appended to the the Paul Krugman "Gore won" columns in the Times' database. It took more than a month, but now the acknowledgement of Krugman's errors are attached for posterity. […]
Today's idiot is Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., showing his utter ignorance of basic economics at yesterday's hearings on "Big Oil." "While no consumers like price increases, in fact, price increases lower demand and help make the shortage shorter-lived than it otherwise would have been," FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras told the hearing. "That's an astounding […]
One thing is obvious: Gov. Schwarzenegger doesn't have the pull he used to have. The Governator's reform agenda -- embodied in Propositions 74-77 -- all went down in flames. In fact, every proposition in the state failed. The one with the closest margin of any issue on the ballot was the parental notification (not consent) […]
We all know that former CBS Producer Mary Mapes is a victim of an ingenious yet dastardly plot by Karl Rove, but this statement from an interview set to air tomorrow on ABC's' "Good Morning America" demonstrates once again that journalism has some serious problems. Mapes says she is continuing to investigate the source of […]