This post has been updated. Chicago Sun-Times reporter/columnist Jennifer Hunter has doubled down on stupid. Earlier this week, Hunter, who is reportedly married to the paper's publisher and apparently excused from basic journalistic standards, is defending her characterization of Philadelphia lawyer Jim Ronca as a "staunch Republican" and playing the victim card. Ever been harassed […]
I've got two books on my ever-increasing to-read list on the subject of the "religious right" and the danger that it represents to both the church and the nation. Unfortunately, neither of them are going to get started until I've finished the latest Harry Potter book -- which could mean I start one of them […]
I got home and flipped the TV to CSPAN-2. It's about 2 a.m. PDT and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey is speaking. It sounds a lot like: "Blah blah blah six months since the surge started and I don't think any reasonable person can say it has been anything other than a failure." And that's all […]
Maybe it falls under the old saw of "being too good to check." How else does someone explain this article by Jennifer Hunter of the Chicago Sun-Times? After watching the top five Democratic candidates for president speak before a trial lawyers' group Sunday, attorney Jim Ronca of Philadelphia, a staunch Republican, became certain of one […]
The Democrats have decided that there's nothing much worth getting done in Washington. Like their spiritual leader, Bluto Blutarski, they're only intersted in making empty, meaningless gestures. Everyone knows what the Democrats' position on the Iraq war is -- and everyone knows there isn't a darn thing they can do about it as long as […]
It should really go without saying that the book is better. It's not possible to squeeze everything in the 500 page book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," into a 2 hour movie, so something's got to get left on the cutting room floor. All in all, I think the decisions were good. […]
Tim Blair has an amusing article in Austraila's Sunday Telegraph about when the heat or cold you're feeling today is climate change and when it's simply weather. Here's a hint: When you connect it to global warming -- it's climate; otherwise, it's just weather.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki made headlines Saturday when he said that the U.S. could pull-out of Iraq whenever and the Iraqis can handle the security situation. From The New York Times: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared Saturday that Iraqi forces could secure the country on their own “any time” American troops decided to […]
There's an interesting column in next week's BusinessWeek on what could be the first newspaper to ditch the "paper." Killing printrequires acknowledging not just that the old mode is dead but also that the future means less revenue and shrunken staffs. This is why it makes sense soonest at a money-losing newspaper already grappling with […]
Credit where credit's due, ABC News' Jake Tapper the other day asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid what is one of the most pertinent questions when discussing any draw down of American troops in Iraq. TAPPER: I'm sorry, if I could just follow up very quickly...Do you think the Iraqi people will be safer with […]