I've got a couple of Social Security related items for today. First, Paul Krugman has once again opined on Social Security, but we've still not been graced with a "Krugman Plan." [The graphic has been updated.] In today's column, Krugman does offer a hint at his preferred solution -- a combination of a rise in […]
Texas Sen. John Cornyn has a letter to the editor in today's New York Times that exposes that the editorial page's opposition to changing the filibuster rule all depends on who is trying to do it. To the Editor: "The Senate on the Brink" (editorial, March 6) supports the "historic role of the filibuster," which […]
Over at Private Radio, JohnnyMC has put up a flash animation of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's conflicting views of the Social Security issue. Check it out.
It can be nothing less than a conscious decision to ignore outraged readers that the Los Angeles Times still has not published any letters critical of its North Korean propaganda piece. Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted. Solvency.
The New York Times reporter Chris Hedges -- last in the news after being booed off the stage at a college graduation ceremony when he went into an anti-American tirade -- apparently has a Jayson Blair problem. Benjamin Blatt has cross-referenced the account of the Battle of Khafji during Gulf War I in Hedges' book […]
Teresa Heinz Kerry was in the Pacific Northwest at a fund-raiser for Democrat Rep. Adam Smith. She opened her mouth, and her brain fell out. A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views. "You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before […]
But you get what you pay for. I've got a half-dozen browser windows open with stuff I want to opine on, but I've gotten hit with a nasty cold/flu-type ailment that's just wiped me out. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in five days -- I catch an hour here or there. I'll try […]
The Discovery Channel has a new show: Power tool drag racing. Solvency.
There's an inside-baseball controversy at Rutgers University over the school paper's decision not to publish an investigative article -- and to not accept the article as a paid advertisement. If you follow the links, you can find the article -- an "expose" of some of the perks student athletes receive. The article has some pretty […]
If you're not up-to-date on the case of Giuliana Sgrena of Italy's communist newspaper Il Manifesto, I encourage you to head over to Little Green Footballs and just keep scrolling. There's two pertinent facts everyone should keep in mind about this story are: First, the Italian government paid approximately $10 million in ransom to get […]