On Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume" Friday, NPR reporter/pundit Juan Williams weighed in on today's announcement by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that she would be retiring. When asked by host Jim Angle if the deal by the "Gang of 14" on avoiding the nuclear option and allowing William Pryor, Priscilla Owen and Janice […]
On journalism: The Sacramento Bee's Diana Griego Erwin quit a couple months back after questions were raised by editors about one of her columns. The results of an investigation into Griego Erwin's work show that she created dozens of columns from whole cloth. An internal investigation into the published work of former Bee columnist Diana […]
If you've been reading this blog since last week, you're infinitely more informed about the Supreme Court's Kelo decision than House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- in this case the D really does stand for "dumb". Q Later this morning, many Members of the House Republican leadership, along with John Cornyn from the Senate, are […]
Here's a couple of articles for those who are interested in the idiocy that is the Supreme Court: George Will and John Podhoretz.
More instruction for the Dumb Dick Durbin: In May 1969, I was taken out for interrogation on suspicion of planning an escape. I was forced to remain awake for long periods of time -- three weeks on one occasion. On the first of June, I was put in a cement box with a steel door, […]
It appears as though the world's preeminent state sponsor of terrorism has lived up to its title -- and "elected" a terrorist president. That's right, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the terrorist leaders who stormed the American embassy and took American citizens captive in 1979. I'm hopeful that Ahmadinejad, a hardliner, will crack down […]
I watched it -- and frankly it was a big ho-hum. Bush said nothing that he hadn't said before -- he was right then, he's right now. We will leave Iraq when victory has been achieved. Victory is defined as a relatively stable, functioning democracy able to defend its borders and police its interior. "More […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune's Ruben Navarette makes a bad call in today's paper. I can't believe I'm defending Tom Cruise. Yep, that's a big mistake. Instead, Cruise kicked off a debate over a subject that a lot of people don't feel comfortable discussing: whether Americans are too quick to turn to prescription drugs and whether […]
The New York Times has a very interesting article on time travel and the possibility of paradox. The article is accessible even for those who are not sciencephiles, but there's one thing about it that troubles me. But what about killing your grandfather? In a well-ordered universe, that would be a paradox and shouldn't be […]