This Sunday the Discovery Channel is putting on a "documentary" that purports to offer definitive proof that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, had a son named Judah, died and had his bones entombed in an ossuary. Let me start by saying that if all this were true, then Christianity is a hoax and should be […]
The New York Post has a brief, but troubling, article on a series of Associated Press wire stories on the efforts of convicted cop-killer Judith Clark to get a new trial. Miller Clark was convicted in the deaths of three police officers during the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack, N.Y. As the story was updated […]
Jurors are still deliberating former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's fate in the trial over nothing. But the "Media Blog" over at National Review Online highlights this column by Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell regarding the op-ed piece by Victoria Toensing I highlighted last week. While Toensing is a partisan, she […]
You've got to love this from the free-market Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area […]
The mainstream media doesn't much reflect America when it comes to a variety of issues. The media is largely secular and even more leftist than the communities they represent -- and that's probably true even in San Francisco. So, it should come as little surprise that Poynter highlighted this letter from former newsman Michael Graham […]
Broncos coach Mike Shanahan has upgraded my status from "out" to "questionable." Drugs are appearing to have an affect on me -- pain is no longer a serious problem but there continues to be numbness in my left shin. Sitting up is no longer a problem, but I'm not going to be running any marathons […]
It was perhaps the surest Oscar bet of the past 30 years. That Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" would win the prize for Best Documentary. (Complete list of winners here.) Were the bookies in Vegas even taking bets on that category? Probably not, they're not that stupid. Last Monday, the Union-Tribune's new ombudsman wrote about […]
I get over the flu just in time to get hit with sciatica. I write this laying on my side with my laptop on an adjacent table. Sitting up is no good. Standing is worse. Blogging will resume when I can feel my left leg.
Today's New York Times editorial page warns the New York City liberal faithful about that power-grabbing, facist, dictatorial Bush administration. A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the […]
It's not a Pulitzer, but I'm sure they probably treasure it just as much. Cuba unveiled a marble plaque on Saturday commemorating the interview 50 years ago by New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews that helped build the legend of Fidel Castro, the state news agency Prensa Latina reported. The plaque was placed on the […]