Those of you living in the San Diego area might have missed the announcement -- it was buried in business briefs in this morning's paper that the Union-Tribune like many other newspapers around the country, is trimming its newsroom staff. Unfortunately, as is often the case, if you want better reporting on a newspaper's woes, […]
I worked at The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., for about a year and a half in the mid-90s. The area is being battered by a storm the likes of which hasn't been seen in 40+ years. Personally, I'll take wildfires over the weather up there any day.
You'd think that five years after the wholesale failure of U.S. intelligence agencies (and those of the rest of the world) to determine the state of Iraq's WMD programs that their guesstimates would be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm not sure that's what is happening. Rand Beers, who resigned from Bush's National […]
The New Republic this weekend finally came out with its investigation of fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. It's long, and, sadly, TNR editor Franklin Foer buried the lede. When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in […]
Sen. Barbara "Couldn't think her way out of a cardboard box" Boxer has put a hold on former California Rep. James Rogan's nomination to a federal district judgeship because he was one of the impeachment managers against then-President Bill Clinton. Apparently, lying under oath to a grand jury isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, but […]