Jimmy Carter's latest book: "Lies I Tell to Improve My Self-Esteem," gets a thrashing from former Carter Center director Kenneth Stein. I encourage you to read the entire article, but it's incredibly hilarious that Carter thinks (according to Zbigniew Brzezniski) that Menachem Begin was responsible for his 1980 defeat by Ronald Reagan.
District Court Judge John A. Houston -- a Bush 43 appointee -- ruled yesterday that it's perfectly OK to silence non-threatening religious speech on school campuses if the speech says that someone is doing wrong. Houston then relied on an earlier appeals court decision in the case to find that the school's actions didn't infringe […]
I must confess that I don't know exactly what to think about the reports that the White House has asked several U.S. attorneys to step down in the coming weeks, including the San Diego District's Carol Lam. Some conspiracy theorists have suggested that it's payback by the Bush administration for Lam's prosecution of Randy "Duke" […]
Former president and Arab money man Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis University outside Boston last night. After writing a book that he has said he hopes prompts a debate, Carter refused to debate law professor Alan Dershowitz. There was a positive note in the article. In response to a question from a student, Carter confessed […]
From the just-making-things-up department comes this from presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's first Webcast: I'm really impressed with what California has done over 30 years. Because they have imposed conservation and energy efficiency standards, they have kept flat their energy use, and the rest of the country has just, unfortunately, continued to use more and more […]
You want to get money from the public? Televangelists have often known one way to get the money to roll in is to put the fear of God into viewers. Oral Roberts famously warned his followers that if he didn't raise enough money, God was going to call him home. Unfortunately, Roberts was either wrong […]
I never actually lived in what today is the Alpha Gamma Omega house in San Luis Obispo -- I graduated the year before the fraternity moved in -- but it was a kick to visit the San Luis Obispo Tribune Web site and see this little article on some of the fraternity houses -- complete […]
I managed to watch all of about a minute of the Jimmy Carter mutual admiration society weekend on CSPAN before I had to turn the channel. There was the sanctimonious moron who is Jimmy Carter decrying the "unreasonable fear" (not his exact words) of Americans in the wake of 9/11. Yes, Carter begs us, ignore […]
"Saturday Night Live" last night addressed Sen. Hillary "cattle futures" Clinton's announcement that she's running for president in their usual cynical, yet disturbingly accurate fashion. I love "Hillary's" triggers for deciding when the troops are "redeployed" from Iraq.
I just got finished reading what should be the go-to source for anthropogenic global warming skeptics. "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years," by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery answers just about every canard tossed out there by Al Gore and his global warming grant-money-seeking cadre. The heavily footnoted book makes the case that […]