I mentioned this story a month ago, and justice was finally done for Richard Paey yesterday as he finally received a full pardon. A victim in the war on drugs, Richard Paey was just wheeled out of prison by a guard, a free man for the first time in 3 ½ years thanks to an […]
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas got an amendment voted on Thursday that pitted Democrats against one of their biggest advocacy groups: MoveOn.org. It wasn't like this was an easy call for most Democrats. It wasn't MoveOn.org vs. the National Rifle Association or the Federalist Society. It was MoveOn.org vs. a highly respected, unanimously confirmed, highly […]
Bob Owens notes that it's been two months since The New Republic editor Franklin Foer pledged to investigate the Scott Thomas Beauchamp fraud. Owens summarizes the overwhelming evidence that Beauchamp's writings were fiction and TNR's willful deceptions. And all we have from Foer is silence.
Capt. Ed rips into this "fact check" of this Fred Thompson statement: "You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn't take you long to realize that our people have shed more blood for other people's liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world.'' -- Fred D. Thompson, […]
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a Paul Krugman fan. But I repeat myself. It turns out that the nutty, conspiracy-theorist University of Florida student that got tased at Sen. John Kerry's talk is a big Paul Krugman fan, and vice versa.
DeGaulle of Dan Rather. Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the […]
If you haven't read these two articles (here and here) by Michael J. Totten on what he calls the Anbar Awakening. This is the kind of reporting the mainstream media should be doing, but isn't. Ramadi has changed so drastically from the terrorist-infested pit that it was as recently as April 2007 that I could […]
I'm not sure it's worth an ESPY, but wow. He should go out and buy a lottery ticket.
According to Janes Defence Weekly, via the Jerusalem Post, comes word that Iran and Syria are now short some officers, engineers and scientists. Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian […]
A federal judge in San Francisco of all places has tossed out state Attorney General Jerry "Space Command" Brown's lawsuit (originially filed by his predecessor) that sought to sue auto manufacturers for global warming. But District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown's environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he […]