The San Diego Union-Tribune's conservative columnist, Joseph Perkins, last day is today. His final column can be found here. I'm going to miss Joseph, not least of all because he once bought me lunch at Hooters. The thing that sticks in my memory most about Joseph was a touch football game a couple of years […]
I did a Google News search for word that France had agreed to send one (1) soldier to Iraq to help train the Iraqi police. Brit Hume made mention of that on his "Special Report" program last night. I didn't find an article to confirm that fact, but I did come across a criticism of […]
So, Canada has decided that it wants no part of the United States' missile defense program. So, let's say that North Korea's Kim Jong Il goes nuts and decides to launch one of his nukes at the United States. Let's say that they miss -- NORAD determines that the nuke will fall north of the […]
The surest sign yet that the apocalypse is upon us comes from David Corn at The Nation magazine. Corn has been poked and prodded by the loony left to look into the "Jeff Gannon" "scandal". Corn comes to the same conclusion I have -- this is much ado about nothing. Let me stipulate that how […]
The Federal Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., has decided the FCC's "broadcast flag" rule -- a code which would tell televisions, VCRs and DVD players what they could and could not play -- overstepped the commission's authority. The FCC argued that its ancillary powers authorize it to regulate the reception of broadcasts, not just […]
Senate minority leader Harry Reid made waves late last year when he went on "Meet the Press" and attacked Justice Clarence Thomas for being a poor writer and a bad justice. When asked to comment on Thomas as a possible replacement for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Reid told NBC's "Meet the Press": "I think that […]
I just got finished reading John Fund's book "Stealing Elections" -- if reading it doesn't cause your blood pressure to go through the roof, then call the coroner, because you're dead. At just over 150 pages, Fund's book goes very fast -- and that's a good thing. Over the course of the book Fund recounts […]