St. Petersburg Times columnist Eric Deggans is confused at why a reporter might take a job with an advocacy group. He knows it may not look good: An investigative reporter with more than 10 years covering a controversial case leaves journalism to work for one of the guys at the center of the story. Still, […]
George Will has a good column in this week's Newsweek on performance enhancing drugs and San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds. One paragraph should tell you all you need to know about Bonds and whether or not he used steroids. According to Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters who wrote "Game […]
Maj. Douglas Zembiec, the subject of this moving and inspiring Los Angeles Times Magazine feature in 2004 was killed last week in Iraq. He is survived by his wife, Pam, and 1-year-old daughter, Fallyn. Pray for Maj. Zembiec's family and honor his memory by reading the profile. "From day one, I've told [my troops] that […]
Do you remember when liberals once stood for free speech and educational freedom against those who sought to censor unpopular views? Neither do I. It was a very long time ago. On Friday, Tufts University, in the heart of Blue State Massachusetts, ruled that a satirical advertisement pointing out some inconvenient truths about Islam is […]
What do you call it when a 23-year-old man has sex with a 15-year-old girl? Statutory rape is correct. What do you call it when a staff member at Planned Parenthood encourages a girl to lie about her age in order to get around state law requiring statutory rape to be reported to authorities? If […]
Troops in Afghanistan have killed Mullah Dadullah, a brutal terrorist leader. Word is it that Dadullah is having a hot time in the old town tonight.
The Durham city manager, Patrick Baker, and Police Chief Steve Chalmers presented their "what went wrong" report to the Durham City Council. The city council apparently wasn't big on being thought of as a bunch of fools. Chalmers and Baker devoted much of their reports to explaining the widely criticized April 4 photo-identification procedure that […]
May's Esquire magazine has a great article by A.J. Jacobs on his efforts to find via the Internet a good man for his shy, beautiful, 27-year-old nanny. I particularly liked this bit: Originally, I planned to send a personal ding letter to each of the unsuitable guys. But the volume is overwhelming. By day four, […]
National Review's Byron York, in an article in The Hill, puts his finger on the problem that pro-life voters have with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice opinion. Giuliani reached a low point last week at the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in California. He was asked a simple question: Would the […]
Libertarian Lew Rockwell has a serious problem with reality. Just as crushing a cockroach with your foot is not the equivalent of slaughtering millions of people in the name of communism, Paris Hilton's 45 days in jail doesn't make her Jesus Christ. Everybody is making fun of Paris Hilton for not wanting to go to […]