A brief addendum to one of the editorials in today's San Diego Union-Tribune got the media critic in me thinking. A final important note: There is something disturbing about the Los Angeles Times asserting in its first two tape-leak stories that it had “obtained†the tape, implying that its acquisition was the result of journalistic […]
Which explains why nine Cubans broke out of a detention facility in Tijuana and showed up at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego asking for political asylum.
Hats off to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne for his suggestion to use non-lethal weapons developed for the military on unruly mobs here in the United States. Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday. […]
The lede paragraph of an AP story on the terrorist surveillance program: Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping program Wednesday, endorsing a White House-supported bill that would give the controversial surveillance legal status. It's not domestic, ^%#$(*&! A phone call from San Diego to Phoenix is not intrastate. It's […]