Ever since the New York Times hid its columnists away behind the TimesSelect wall, they are no longer really part of the national conversation. However, David Brooks had a column Thursday that Mark Finkelstein excerpted over at Newsbusters that prompted an interesting response in Friday's letters section. First, Brooks column: This is a tale of […]
When I was in high school, I worked as a "courtesy clerk" (aka bagger) at the Alpha Beta store in La Mesa. One of the nicest guys working there was a big, black guy named Reggie. Reggie was in charge of receiving, so he spent most of his days in the back, but occasionally he […]
We're currently in the middle of the blackout period. What's that, you ask? It's the 60 days before the general election when groups are banned from naming candidates for federal office by name by the McCain-Feingold act. It's the reason you don't see ads by the NRA or ACLU encouraging you to contact your congressman […]
Not content to have a nice, juicy political steak to munch on in the form of disgraced former GOP Rep. Mark Foley, the Democrats today took serious steps toward trying to corral an entire herd of cows -- it may be more than they swallow. Several Democrats, as tone deaf as their GOP counterparts, came […]
Disgraced former GOP Rep. Mark Foley says he's going into rehab. According to the Drudge Report, a letter was sent to TV station WPBF by Foley includes this line. I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and related behavioral problems. Foley may be alcoholic, […]
I might pick up former GOP Sen. John Danforth's book, "Faith & Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together," when it appears in the bargain bin. Why? According to National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru, the book doesn't do a very good job of describing how to move forward together […]
Monday's New York Times editorial page comments on the upcoming Supreme Court term in what can only be described as ominous terms. Most of the editorial is liberal boilerplate, advocating the respect of precedent when the precedent is liberal (partial birth abortion) and encouraging the court to be activist when the result would be supporting […]
I've repeatedly bemoaned the tendency for some judges to ignore their duty to rule on the laws and the constitution passed by the people's representatives and not to act as a superlegislature, imposing their own beliefs in an autocratic fashion on the people. Last week, in an address to a conference on the judiciary at […]
It's probably gone under the radar for the past few days because too many people, including yours truly, have long ago come to the conclusion that New York Times public editor Byron Calame is an even more ineffectual advocate than his oft-derided predecessor, Daniel Okrent. So, imagine my surprise when I checked Calame's Web Journal […]