John Bolton has been doing an excellent job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for the past year-plus. Unfortunately, he has not been confirmed by the Senate and his recess appointment will expire at the end of the current Congress. I'm of the opinion that there are only two reasons to reject a president's […]
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 […]
the less we seem to know. This sort of thing certainly puts that whole persistent vegetative state thing into question. (via Random Jottings) Perhaps the last word should go to Pat Flores, the mother of George Melendez, the 31-year-old coma patient who reassured his parents that he wasn't in pain after taking Ambien, as zolpidem […]
In recent months you've had Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad send a letter to President Bush encouraging him to convert to Islam, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and camerman Olaf Wiig forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint and Al Qaeda terrorist Adam Gadahn on video "encouraging" Americans to convert to Islam "because today could be […]
Dixie Chick big mouth Natalie Maines calls President George W. Bush a "dumb F&%*" in a new documentary that will be incredibly popular in Canada and Europe, but not anywhere associated with "Dixie." I'll say it again: 99.4 percent of people who think President Bush is an idiot aren't nearly as smart as he is. […]
Bret Stephens has an excellent article in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal on the curious fact that liberals will defend their values against WASP conservatives, but not against Islamofascists. For whatever else distinguishes Islamism from liberalism, both are remarkably self-absorbed affairs, obsessed with maintaining the purity of their own values no matter what the cost. In […]
If you haven't read it yet, check out this piece by the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan.