The recent decision by the Bush administration to request the resignations of a handful of U.S. attorneys has resulted in the Senate once again trying to usurp powers delegated specifically to the president. U.S. attorneys are part of the Justice Department -- the executive branch -- and serve at the pleasure of the president. It […]
I don't watch a whole lot of television entertainment shows. For a period of several years I didn't watch any at all -- I watched a variety of news shows, wrote this blog and played video games. Lately, however, I've been hooked on "Heroes" on NBC and I belatedly jumped on the "Veronica Mars" bandwagon […]
It's interesting to read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article and the Seattle Times article on the mistrial of Lt. Ehren Watada side by side. (For those unfamiliar with Lt. Watada, he has been a favorite of anti-war rallies of late because he contends that the Iraq War is illegal and has refused a lawful order to […]
Actress Charlize Theron is easy on the eyes, but she's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Yep that's right! Cuba and America have the same level of freedom of speech -- which is why today Theron is in federal prison in Lompoc.
The Washington Post's hateful hitman has decided, with the help of his editors, that maybe he ought to just shut up. William Arkin has posted a second follow-up to his idiotic screed against the U.S. military. I'll save you the burden of reading it. It consists wholly of "woe is me, the evil right-wingers are […]
It's apparently taboo now to describe any African-American as "articulate." Though it was little noted, on Wednesday President Bush on the Fox News Channel also described Mr. Obama as “articulate.†On any given day, in any number of settings, it is likely to be one of the first things white people warmly remark about Oprah […]
In the months following 9/11, if you'd have taken a poll of the general public most would have predicted that the United States would not go another five years without a major terrorist attack. For all its mistakes in just about every other aspect of governance -- from out-of-control spending on the domestic front to […]
Former Democrat vice presidential hopeful John "the hair" Edwards had a bad week -- and it's not clear he realizes it. Edwards, whom we last mocked for having a book signing at a Barnes & Noble (starting salary $7 an hour) instead of a Wal-Mart (starting salary $7.50 an hour) because Wal-Mart is evil, unveiled […]
Up is down. Right is wrong. Sen. James Webb of Virginia was on Fox News Sunday this morning and host Chris Wallace confronted him with the intellectual disconnect that I mentioned a week ago: It doesn't make sense to unanimously confirm Gen. David Petraeus for a fourth star and at the same time tout a […]
The Washington Post's William Arkin forgot the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging. After more than 1,000 responses to his original bile -- the majority of which questioned his intelligence, sanity, sincerity and the circumstances of his birth -- Arkin doubled down on stupid. Contrary to the typically inaccurate and […]