From Monday's "Best of the Web Today" comes this interesting bit: Take Me to the River A reader wrote to the New York Times to inquire as to why the paper refers to Iraq as "Mesopotamia" when describing the al Qaeda affiliate in that country. He received the following reply from the Public Editor's Office: […]
This post has been updated There's been a lot of competition, but this week's winner is Columbia Journalism Review's Paul McLeary who came up with this thoughtful, incisive bit of analysis on the dustup over The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist." How dare a college grad and engaged citizen volunteer to join the Army to fight […]
If you haven't read it already, I encourage you to check out the op-ed piece in today's New York Times by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the center-left Brookings Institution. Once you've read it, think for a moment how this likely won't impact people like Sens. Harry Reid and Russ Feingold who've already decided […]
Sen. Ted Stevens -- the only senator I've ever personally ticked off with my reporting -- had his home raided today by the FBI and IRS. I don't know if Stevens is dirty or not. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised either way -- I think just about every politician who reaches a position of national […]
Chief Justice John Roberts had a "benign ideopathic seizure" today -- whatever that is. And of course the nutroots goes from straight into hoping for his death. Patterico points to supposedly kinda mainstream "Wonkette." Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your […]
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. President George W. Bush's fault. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Bush's fault. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ditto. The failure to capture Osama bin Laden ... in 1998. Bush's fault. Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it […]
For those interested in the abortion issue, here's a couple of things worth reading. First is this article from last week's Los Angeles Times entitled "Democrats shift approach on abortion." Surprisingly, the aforementioned shift is in a pro-life direction. For years, the liberal response to abortion has been to promote more accessible and affordable birth […]
Today, Anthony Keith Gwynn was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. "Mr. Padre" was the lone reason to watch an all-too-often inept baseball team growing up in San Diego. While others celebrated pennants and World Series titles, San Diegans turned out to see Gwynn stroke single after single through the 5.5 hole between the […]
For all of those who think that the United States is holding a bunch of poor, innocent saps who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time at the terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remember that those are the ones the military and intelligence communities have good reason to suspect they're […]
Aside from Israel -- a democracy -- I don't think much of selling a bunch of advanced weaponry to various Middle East countries. Heck, I wouldn't sell Saudi Arabia a prop plane until they got this Wahabbi stuff out of their system and got open-minded enough to allow their foreign Christian workers to worship legally […]