About 10:30 last night my 5-year-old Toshiba cable modem apparently figured that five years of blogging was enough and committed suicide. It was a quiet death. No bizarre behavior leading up to the tragic event. When it died, there was no smoke, sparks or flame ... the lights simply went out. Needless to say this […]
Dear Mark, I read the transcript of your interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show a few weeks ago. I don't often get to listen to Hugh's show because his show typically comes on the air as I go to work at the San Diego Union-Tribune. I'm not a reporter. I'm not an editor. I design […]
It looks like some Democrats believe that last Tuesday's election results are a mandate to make sure that the United States needs to give unprecedented rights to terrorists. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a […]
Five years ago today was my first blog post. I should write something profound, something meaningful, something that has lasting impact to commemorate this day. Instead, I'm going to watch some more football. Go Bolts!
Is it lazy reporting? Ignorance? Or partisan politics? The Associated Press sent out this story on the Senate's dumbest member, California's own Barbara Boxer (who narrowly edged out Washington Sen. Patty Murray for the title), who is poised to take over the Senate Environment Committee. When informed that the Senate Enviornment Committee was concerned with […]
Apparently stupidity is rampant at Orange Coast College just up the I-5 in Orange County. Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government. The move by Orange Coast […]
The Germans -- the ones who brought the world Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and the Blitz -- are going to criminally prosecute outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet and others. I think now's the time to bring the troops home -- from Germany. And these losers are supposed […]
Today's Union-Tribune has some excellent stories on servicemen who were awarded medals for bravery in Iraq this veterans day. Marine Lance Cpl. Carlos Gomez Perez's story can be found here. Don't miss the links in the sidebar for two other stories. Remember these brave men, and the others who didn't make it back today. It's […]
I finished reading Robert Spencer's latest book, "The Truth About Muhammed," last week. (His Web site is www.jihadwatch.org for those who are interested.)I consider myself better informed than most about Islam, but Spencer's primer on the religion's founder taught me quite a bit that I didn't know before. I was rather roughly aware of Islam's […]
Usually the silly season is the one that just ended -- the months leading up to November elections. Earlier today, however, I discovered it is in fact the start of another silly season -- the holiday shopping season. I went to the local Circuit City today to pick up "Gears of War," the Xbox360's newest […]