I mentioned last week that at least 25 newspapers, including the Washington Post had declined to publish Berkeley Breathed's "Opus" cartoon these last two Sundays because of its "questionable content." The content in question being the mocking of "radical Islam." With last week's comic there was a slim possibility that some papers bowed out because […]
Congressional Quarterly has done a service to those interested in keeping our elected officials accountable and pointing out the corrupting nature of earmarks. The House’s most outspoken critics of what they say is unnecessary military spending would secure nearly half a billion dollars in the defense appropriations bill for programs in their districts the Pentagon […]
For most of their first eight months in charge on Capitol Hill, the Democrats passed bill after resolution after bill demanding something close to an immediate retreat from Iraq. They did this knowing that President Bush would veto the bills and that he had enough Republican support to sustain those vetoes. The maneuvers were empty, […]
It takes an enormous amount of gall to be Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles. The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake […]
Courtesy of QandO, which is celebrating its fourth anniversary, we have this story from Daily Tech on what the scientific consensus is on anthropogenic global warming. In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to […]
This post has been updated. The New York Times editorial board is a partisan, ideologically homogeneous cadre of elite leftist thinking -- not that there's anything wrong with that. The problem is that their partisanship often takes the truth out into the alley out back, beats the tar out of it and leaves it bruised […]
San Diego-area Rep. Bob "I'm a congressman, I can do whatever I want" Filner addressed the annual convention of the American Legion today. Filner, I think, stuck his foot in his mouth, but I think most are too kind to point it out. Filner advocated more mental health care for members of the military returning […]
I was always a big "Bloom County" fan growing up. I loved the idea of pear pimples for hairy fishnuts and the torrid affair between U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bill the Cat was hilarious. When cartoonist Berkeley Breathed made political points, he was never as overbearing and unfunny as Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury." Breathed is […]
Chicago's Episcopal Diocese has nominated a lesbian priest who's in an (by definition) extramarital relationship with another woman to the rank of bishop. The real question is this: Is she a Christian or a Muslim? Nowadays it's a question you have to ask.
Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig should resign his seat. Craig's statement today on his Web site was the wrong one, seeing as how it is not a resignation. The good news: Republicans are asking for an ethics investigation of one of their own. That's a refreshing change from the impulse to cover for one of […]