Los Angeles Times reporter/blogger Michael Hiltzik's blog has been "suspended." Apparently that's the blogospheric equivalent of being given a time-out. The scandal has also made The Washington Post. Patterico, in the wake of his impressive sleuthing has expressed concern that the Times might throw the baby out with the bathwater and end their blogging experiment. […]
The good news is the decision came down from the Ninth Circuit -- the most overturned appeals court in the nation. The bad news is Thursday's decision in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District has the effect of silencing religious speech. If you're interested in reading the legal opinions, the majority opinion […]
I just caught Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano peddling his book "Constitution in Exile" on the TV. Let me just say that I'm a little unimpressed with his thesis. Napolitano complained that once the government claims power in the name of national security, it never gives it back and that each time it […]
Royal Phillips Electronics has filed a patent on a TV that would allow broadcasters to "lock" your TV when a commercial comes on -- no channel surfing for you! Philips acknowledged, however, the anti-channel-changing technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if […]
Patrick Frey over at Patterico's Pontifications has exposed Los Angeles Times columnist/blogger Michael Hiltzik as a dishonest, conniving ... journalist. You see, Patterico has pretty solid evidence that Hiltzik has been pretending to be other people on the 'net to both praise himself and to attack others. I encourage you to read Patterico's piece, because […]
Courtesy of OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto, we have this hilarious story of a couple of Greenpeace enviro-wackos trying to make a point about global warming. Two U.S. explorers plan to start a four-month summer expedition to the North Pole next month to gather information on the habitat of an animal they believe could be the first […]
Nina Burleigh, the reporter who last made headlines when she encouraged women to thank former President Bill Clinton for keeping abortion legal by donning kneepads and doing a ... how shall I phrase this ... a Lewinsky, has written an article for Salon.com [you've got to watch a short ad to read it] where she […]
Today's Washington Post has a good article by Howard Kurtz on Fox News Channel's Brit Hume. This part resonated with me: Hume says he came to feel "out of step with ABC News's natural tendencies." He recalls challenging an assignment about how the first President Bush "isn't doing anything" by saying: "Has it ever occurred […]
Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni is one of a handful of former generals who are demanding that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resign for stuff that happened three years ago. Unfortunately, Zinni apparently doesn't follow the lead of former Gen. George Washington. Zinni can tell a lie, or, if not a lie, he can conveniently forget things. […]
Today the San Diego Union-Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its series of stories exposing the unprecedented corruption of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. The citation reads: For a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs, in print or in print and online, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Two Prizes of $10,000 each: Awarded […]