Today's New York Times editorial contains a falsehood. I've sent the following letter off to the Times' Byron Calame. Mr. Calame, Good luck with this new job -- you'll probably need it. I'm writing you with regard to Sundays editorial entitled "The Center Can Hold." There is a factual error in this editorial that needs […]
During the roundtable discussion portion of Friday's "Special Report with Brit Hume," The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes said that if Clarence Thomas were appointed to the Supreme Court today, the Democrats in the Senate would filibuster him as an "out of the mainstream extremist." National Public Radio's Juan Williams said: "I don't think they'd filibuster […]
City Journal's Katerine Ernst rips California's dimmest bulb, Sen. Barbara Boxer, a new one. After detailing Boxer's nutty attacks on Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Ernst gives us a little history lesson. The Barbara Boxer of four years ago, you’d like to think, would find today’s Barbara Boxer appalling. After all, back then, the senator based […]
Still no Social Security plan, and I only have to go 1 sentence into Krugman's latest column to call it bolshevik storytelling. Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal society. Says Krugman about late '40s, '50s and '60s -- as millions of blacks were fighting for their civil rights.
Call the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns" while claiming that you're an American Indian. The Rocky Mountain News is wrapping up an impressive report on Colorado University professor Ward Churchill. Included in their extensive documentation is Churchill's family tree stretching back to the 16th century. Even going back nearly 500 years, they couldn't find a […]
In a classic case of burying the lede, Friday's Washington Post got Democrat Party chief Howard Dean to make a startling confession -- but only if you read far enough into the story. "Have you had advice for Governor Dean about his most recent comments, sir?" Reid replied that there isn't anyone who hasn't "misspoken" […]
I must confess that I don't pay close attention to the internal workings of the French economy. I know two things about it, and they're all I think I need to know. First, French farmers are always protesting something by using their tractors (both of them) to block roads. Second, the French economy's default status […]
Oregon Republican Sen. Gordon Smith deserves a beating. Subsequently, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., introduced legislation that would allow companies to send unsolicited faxes as long as there is an established business relationship with the recipient. "This bill is balanced policy that rids consumers of nuisance and small business of expensive regulation," Smith said in […]
Former President Jimmy Carter -- who should stick to building houses with Habitat for Humanity -- has joined the chorus of the shallow and ignorant by calling for the closure of the terrorist holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. In comments broadcast on Fox News, Carter had a list of things that could be done with […]
So, a psycho Canadian comes to the U.S. and customs officials find a homemade sword, brass knuckles, a hatchet and an apparently blood-stained chainsaw. I say "apparently" because customs officials didn't figure that this guy was worrisome enough to hold on to. They confiscated his weapons and told him to have fun in the United […]