About every other week "media writer" Neal Gabler (how come I've never seen anything he writes on the Web?) complains on "Fox News Watch" that any media reporting on Iraq that isn't negative somehow paints a "false" picture of what Gabler knows is going on there. A lot of what has been missing in the […]
So, today was the last day for the White House briefing room before it undergoes a 9-month-long renovation. President Bush showed up -- along with a gaggle of former press secretaries from both parties -- and answered a couple of questions. Unfortunately for the media, ABC News' Sam Donaldson was in attendence and he came […]
Stephen Colbert interviews Washington, D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. The expression on her face when Colbert argues that people from D.C. aren't Americans is priceless.
The New York Times had an interesting article in its Sunday paper on Rev. Gregory A. Boyd in Minnesota. The headline: "Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock." There's a lot to the article, but as you're reading, you also have to try to sift and sort through the Times' "cosmopolitan" viewpoint -- sometimes you […]
It looks like Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Cop-puncher) is going to be sent packing from Congress again -- Fox News reported that she's trailing her opponent, Hank Johnson by 15-20 points in most polls. But that's not what I want to share with you. No, I want you to know that the nutjob who you pass […]
Editor & Publisher, the publication I just love to beat up, has a brief on a lawsuit by wacky Rep. Cynthia McKinney's libel suit against the Atlanta Journal Constitution. I love this bit: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney filed charges against the newspaper's editor Cynthia Tucker and publisher John Mellott for an editorial column that ran in […]
All those of you who count on American Express' Membership Rewards program for all of those free frequent flier miles might want to take a look at this: Customers will no longer earn double rewards for purchases made at grocery stores, drug stores and gas stations, but the credit card giant plans to implement a […]
Some of those voting machine luddites are suing to overturn Rep. Brian Bilbray's 4-point special election win over Francine Busby on the grounds that "there is no way to ensure that the voting machines used by county elections officials were not tampered with by space aliens from the planet Wackolib Six in the Snickers galaxy." […]
The U.N. Security Council unanmiously (what is the Bush administration doing?) approved keeping U.N. observers in the war zone that is southern Lebanon for another month. The U.N. observers do nothing. They were supposed to verify Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago -- and they did. Since then, they were supposed to be monitoring […]
Every two years around election time politicians are faced with the question of whether they want to pass a bill or have an issue in the upcoming election. It's cynical, but that's the way politicians minds work. Along those same lines, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist has come up with a relatively painless solution to the […]