Guns are bad. Really bad. At least, that's what the Academy Award-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" purported to show. America is a dangerous place with all of these gun-wielding nuts running around. Then you see this: Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. Police […]
I have a suggestion for the Democrats in the Senate. If you want to make a little noise by delaying the vote on the first African-American woman to be nominated for Secretary of State, it might be a good idea to choose someone who isn't a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to put […]
From a Reuters report on President Bush's second term: The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's go-it-alone foreign policy and the U.S.-led […]
Sen. Barbara Boxer (Idiot-Calif.) got into a verbal tit-for-tat with Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice yesterday morning. I didn't get the honor of seeing the exchange live, because I don't generally get up before the crack of noon. But seeing the replayed sound bites on TV has me convinced that Boxer is a U.S. senator […]
Watching the confirmation hearing for Condolezza Rice and I must confess that Chris Dodd, friend to Latin American tyrants and fascists, needs to be hit with a clue-by-four. Dodd's suggestion that we need to give al Qaeda terrorists Geneva Convention protections is the worst sort of idiocy. *sarcasm* No, we don't want to make al […]
The New York Times editorial board takes a final look back at the 2004 election and decides that a 4,000 vote screw-up in North Carolina's race for agriculture commissioner is an open-and-shut case against electronic voting machines. Let's not excuse the monumental screw-up in North Carolina, but the only thing more shocking than how little […]
Television station France 2 ripped into the French government's response to the humanitarian disaster south Asia as a result of last month's tsunami by comparing it to the American response. I encourage you to check out the entire article, but the thought that struck me after reading this was: "If this is how France is […]
American University now has a transcript up of the Scalia-Breyer debate that I posted about last week. You can find more discussion about the event over at Kenneth Anderson's blog -- he was also the moderator of the debate. Anderson took issue with the quote that the Associated Press and I picked up on regarding […]
The U.S. and the European Space Agency collaborated to put a manmade object on Titan -- a moon of Saturn approximately 900 million miles away. If the story has piqued your interest, check out this story about a how this weekend's success was almost a colossal failure.