There were a couple of interesting posts on the subject of journalism this past week. The first one was a guest post by William Katz, a former New York Times Magazine editor and longtime talent coordinator for the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. The whole thing is worth reading, but I wanted to highlight this […]
I must confess that I just don't get it. New York Times prima donna Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse refused to appear on a panel on the Supreme Court put on by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication because C-SPAN was going to tape it. According to people who were there, Greenhouse […]
Bob Owens over at Confederate Yankee managed to track down one of the sources The New Republic used to "confirm" one of the facts in their since-discredited "Shock Troops" piece -- and it doesn't reflect well on that magazine's vaunted fact-checking. Specifically, Owens tracked down the spokesman for the manufacturerer of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle […]
It appears as though efforts by some in the military and media to turn a tragedy into a crime are going to fail. Yesterday, Lt. Gen. James Mattis decided not to court-martial Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt and Capt. Randy W. Stone. Sharratt was involved in a firefight with insurgents that tragically left some women […]
Statisician Steve McIntyre, the guy who famously exposed the global warming hockey stick fraud, has done the world another service by pointing out an error in NASA climate expert James Hansen's temperature adjustment algorithms that had the effect of causing a false jump in official temperatures. The corrected numbers shoot down 1998 as the hottest […]
Henry Reynolds is a Los Angeles attorney who bought the domain "imwithfred2008." That site, minus the 2008, is the official site of maybe GOP candidate Fred Thompson. Reynolds set up his fake site as a KKK fan site. Unfortunately, Reynolds isn't that bright when it comes to the Internet, and failed to cover his tracks.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds points to this article about the rise of Christianity in China. He then writes this: It could happen, I suppose, and my colleague Rosalind Hackett, who studies these things, has suggested that militant Christianity, not Islam, is likely to be the religious force of the 21st century. I'm unsure whether the "militant" […]
The Club for Growth has posted an interesting pork scorecard. Certain Republicans (and one Democrat) would do well to promote its findings. Sixteen congressmen scored a perfect 100%, voting for all 50 anti-pork amendments. They are all Republicans. The average Republican score was 43%. The average Democratic score was 2%. The average score for appropriators […]
Last week, California Secretary State Debra Bowen decertified most of the electronic voting machines in the State of California. Ms. Bowen is a moron. Imagine a bank testing its security by giving the "Red Team" a key to the bank, the bank's security codes and the combination to the vault and being shocked that they […]
Before they charged out of Washington, D.C., for their August recess, the House and Senate passed a temporary (six-month) fix to the ridiculousness which has become FISA. Recently a federal FISA judge ruled that communications between two foreign, non-U.S. persons, that merely pass through a piece of electronic equipment in the United States require a […]