I'm still trying to get used to WordPress and the increased complications of running my own site, so you'll forgive me if you've wanted to or tried to post a comment the past couple of weeks and were unable to. I just recently discovered that there are two completely different places that control commenting and […]
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter Saturday afternoon. The victim, 78-year-old Harry Whittington, is apparently going to be OK. Comedians are going to have a field day with this, but I think that this was just a cynical effort to up Cheney's poll numbers. Whittington is a lawyer -- shooting lawyers always […]
Apparently a lot of prominent conservatives (read: not me) are getting e-mails from outraged liberals regarding comments made at CPAC by bomb-thrower Ann Coulter. Again, for the record, I don't like her. This e-mail campaign is being spurred on by admitted liar David Brock's Media Matters -- but you'd think that at least one conservative […]
Time magazine has published a photo of President Bush meeting with disgraced lobbyist and felon Jack Abramoff. As of today, Time has not published anything on Abramoff's links to Senate Minority leader Harry Reid. In the photograph Time is touting on its Web site, Abramoff can only be seen as a smudge in the background. […]
I got to go to the Utah vs. SDSU men's basketball game today before I went into work. The Aztecs had their win streak snapped, but the what struck me most about this game was the poor quality of the officiating. Several times Utah's center would set a screen for a guard and then turn […]
When someone toots their own horn, I'm apt to make the crack that I'll head down and grease the front door so I can get their ego through it. Well, grease wouldn't be nearly enough for rap "singer" Kanye West, last seen on this blog posing as Jesus Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone. […]
I got off work early on Tuesday, and since I was working out of the Carlsbad office, I headed down to nearby Tamarack State Beach just after sunset. Low light can be difficult for digital cameras, but I did manage to get off some decent shots. All of these were taken using my Olympus E-500 […]
It appears that a Washington Post article that portrays two of the top judges of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act Court as standing athwart the Bush administration's "illegal" NSA surveillance program may backfire. The piece describes how Judges Royce Lamberth and his successor, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, barred the use of evidence gained by the NSA program […]
National Review's John O'Sullivan recounts this anecdote that had me laughing: Sorry, but the Basil Fawlty story reminds me of the great opening line of Vincent Mulchrone's Daily Mail report of the German victory over England in an earlier soccer World Cup. I quote from memory: "Yesterday Germany beat this country in our national game […]
First there's this concise explanation of why the NSA surveillance program is legal. Second is this transcript of a roundtable discussion regarding the Muhammed cartoons with Hugh Hewitt, Joe Carter, Michael Medved and Dennis Prager. My position on the issue is most closely aligned with Medved and Prager.