This is a much deeper theological question than the New York Times appears capable of handling: A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin’ Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The two faiths worship the same God — not different ones. I think if […]
Zogby International came out with a poll today showing that Sen. Hillary Clinton would lose to Republicans Sen. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. I trust Zogby polls about the same as I trust the government to be a good steward of my tax dollars, but this certainly can't help Clinton. I still think […]
I'm sorry. I was laughing too hard over this bit of stonewalling by Maryland Democratic Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin. FROM 1997 to 2001, Rod J. Rosenstein worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Greenbelt. For the past two years, he has been the top federal prosecutor in Maryland and has earned plaudits for […]
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus -- no conservative she -- took on hack economist Paul Krugman last week over his repeated claims that the demographic train wreck facing Social Security does not exist. Marcus juxtaposed Krugman's concerns of years past with his dismissive and demogogic language of the present that anyone (Barack Obama particularly) saying […]
The latest travel news out of Bali, Indonesia, is that people flying there on their private jets for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change will have to park their planes somewhere else -- they don't have enough room on the tarmac for all of them. The operational manager for Bali's Airport, Azjar Effendi, says his […]
So, there's some lawsuits and legislation going through Congress on whether employers can require that their employees speak English -- in America. I nearly fell down laughing and hurt myself when this lawyer they had on Fox News' "The Big Story" was defending the rights of people to speak languages other than English on the […]
If you've been wondering, based on that iPhone ad about the pilot using his Apple device to check out Weather.com to get the plane off the ground, why all the airlines aren't issuing iPhones to their pilots -- here's why. Alas, not everyone is wisely skeptical, and the first time I saw the ad, I […]
Dan Rather is claiming that CBS News reporters are sitting on important investigative stories out of fear that what happened to Dan could happen to them. “In the wake of what’s happened to Rather, there have been important investigative stories that haven’t been broadcast,” said [Dan Rather's lawyer] Mr. [Martin] Gold. “Because the people involved […]
I'd guess that the answer is no. (via Newsbusters) Time magazine, November 26, 2007 (Michael Grunwald): [Georgia's] drought was a natural event transformed into a natural disaster by human folly. And while it's still hard to say whether global warming caused any particular drought or flood or fire, it's going to cause more of all […]