Bruce Fierstein over at The New York Observer is channeling the New York Times new public editor Ali bin-Zabar. Ali: This is awful. Horrible. What about the gay wedding announcements? Debbie Dear Ms. T: As you’re no doubt aware of the Koran’s position on homosexuality, let me be clear here: In the future, there will […]
The case I mentioned last week regarding a judge unilaterally changing California's procedures for administering the death penalty has borne fruit -- now the state can't execute convicted rapist and murderer Michael Morales [PDF Format]. California officials postponed indefinitely the execution of convicted killer Michael Morales on Tuesday after notifying a federal court they could […]
Sunday's Washington Post had a very interesting article on the how the Internet and technology is presenting problems for China's censors and government-controlled media.
There's a big brouhaha on Capitol Hill and in some corners of the blogosphere over the purchase of a British company that currently manages several U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates. Let me begin by saying that the politics of this are undoubtedly bad. Whether or not there is […]
Mark Steyn notes some of the silliness in attempts to compare Dick Cheney's hunting accident to Sen. Edward Kennedy doing in Mary Jo Kopechne. Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's […]
You often have to point out to Democrats that elections have consequences. There's a Republican president and a GOP-controlled Senate, therefore you're going to get conservative judges -- that's all there is to it. The Palestinians who voted the terrorist group Hamas into power also need to realize this basic fact, and they shouldn't be […]
Over the weekend, 15 people were killed in Nigeria and another 11 in Libya as the engineered violence in response to the rather tame Muhammed cartoons continued to claim lives. In a case of bad timing, my paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, published an incredibly lame justification for not having published any of the Danish […]
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the U.S. government has approached Georgia (the country, not the state) about using bases in that country should they be needed to prevent Iran from going nuclear. American officials have been quietly probing whether Georgia, situated just northwest of Iran, will be willing to allow Washington to use its […]
Art Madrid is the Mayor of the San Diego suburb of La Mesa, population 50,000+. It's my hometown and Madrid has been mayor since 1981. It appears that 25 years as mayor has honed Madrid's sense of entitlement and the idea that he's better than the rest of you. The public-comment portion of a city […]
Prosecutors are asking for a 10-year sentenced for my disgraced and corrupt former congressman, Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Sentencing is scheduled for March 3. Documents revealed Friday and reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune here, show just how flagrant and systematic Cunningham's corruption was. Federal prosecutors say the“naked avarice†of Randy “Duke†Cunningham is displayed in […]