The New York Times first ombudsman has finished his term -- and started up a nasty fight with the Times' most notorious hack. You can check out the latest salvo here on the new public editor's "Web Journal" (it's called a "blog" guys!). I'd like to highlight one comment from Dan Okrent that reveals that […]
I didn't really pay much attention to last week's article by The New York Times' Thomas Friedman urging the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center for terrorists. Why? For a couple of reasons: First, even if I tried really, really hard, I couldn't care less what the press in foreign countries […]
And his name is Hal Holbrook. I mean, W. Mark Felt, former No. 2 at the FBI. A lot of you have read many articles about Felt, but don't overlook this one by a former reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune, James Crawley. You see, to Crawley, W. Mark Felt has always been "Uncle Mark." […]
Not when the I-15 is a parking lot at 11 at night because they need to extend a bridge. For the rest of the week I'll try to use the 5. It's probably 25 miles extra, but I'm sure I'll get home quicker.
As you go about your business today -- whether you're going to a baseball game, a BBQ or you've got to work -- pause for a moment and remember soldiers like Michael C. Carlson who gave the last full measure of devotion that we may enjoy the freedoms that we have. For those of you […]
To the American and European left nowadays, the thing they fear the most isn't "fear," nor is is nuclear war, famine or global warming. Islamic extremism that has killed more than 3,000 Americans over the past three decades along with thousands more in places like Afghanistan, Iran, Spain, Indonesia and the Phillippines. Nope, the thing […]
I got to watch the vast majority of the NCAA lacrosse semifinal games on Saturday -- I used my digital video recorder. Unfortunately, thunderstorms and lightning in Philadelphia meant that my recording (even adding an extra half-hour) didn't catch most of the final period and overtime of the Johns Hopkins/Virginia game -- and that was […]
Guess which Senate party leader those words more aptly describes -- Republican Bill Frist, or Democrat Harry Reid? If you guessed Reid, you're right! The signatures of 14 Senate centrists, seven from each party, spilled across the last page of a hard-won compromise on President Bush's judicial nominees. But whatever elation the negotiators felt, the […]
Shortly after last year's election loss, Democrats began taking solace in a bogus study that purported to show that states that voted for John Kerry had substantially higher average IQs than states that voted for George W. Bush. Yesterday, results came out on a different type of test -- a driving test -- and it […]
Yesterday in the Senate, the GOP and some conservative Democrats fell just a few votes short of 60 in an effort to invoke cloture on the nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Several Democrats, including Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd were quick to claim that […]