The San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball team locked up its first Mountain West Conference title yesterday with a trouncing of visiting Wyoming. This is the Aztecs first conference championship since 1978, when they were in the defunct Pacific Coast Athletic Association. It was not, as the I-D-10-T on the radio said, their first conference […]
Sanity prevailed Tuesday night and the La Mesa City Council retracted the threatening letter that they had sent to resident Chris Tanner after he had the audacity to suggest the council might be in the pockets of developers. (You can find my previous posts on this subject here and here.) At last night's meeting, several […]
During Wednesday's hearing on the Texas redistricting plan, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a visit, as the Washington Post's Dana Milbank put it, to the "land of nod." If I were arguing the case before the court today, I'd be angry that a Justice who is supposed to decide the case can't be bothered to […]
Via Best of the Web Today we have this funny bit from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who is in Australia promoting her book, "Are Men Necessary?" The newspaper is allowing men to post brief, singles-ad type comments in an attempt to woo the saucy Ms. Dowd ... and this one is by far […]
I've often been curious as to how The New York Times goes about selecting which letters to publish on its editorial page. Often the majority of the letters represent a decidedly (and at times extremely) left-wing worldview, but it's impossible to know if this is because the vast majority of the letters they receive are […]
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on the Tom DeLay-orchestrated Texas redistricting plan that gave Republicans a majority of congressional seats in that state for the first time in decades. Democrats and their liberal allies are, predictably, crying foul because the new plan effectively ensured Republican control of the House for the […]
Monday's New York Times has an interesting op-ed piece by MIT political science professor Barry Posen. Normally I would find Posen's analysis pretty astute and convincing, however I can't come to that conclusion in this case. As for aggression, the fear is that Iran could rely on a diffuse threat of nuclear escalation to deter […]
It wasn't uncommon back in the '70s and '80s for there to be pro-life Democrats -- Ted Kennedy was one, Dick Gephardt was another. However, as the parties polarized on the issue with Democrats becoming dominated by pro-choicers and Republicans by pro-lifers, politicians who wanted to further their careers found themselves re-evaluating their deeply held […]
The Washington Post reports today that the Red Cross isn't as good a steward with your donations as they should be. The American Red Cross paid consultants more than $500,000 in the past three years to pitch its name in Hollywood, recruit stars for its "Celebrity Cabinet" and brand its chief executive as the face […]