Have a safe and enjoyable 4th.
You can cut the hypocrisy with knife. Ms Clinton, a frontrunner in the Democratic race for the presidency, said she was incensed by the move. "What we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rule of law. And what we saw today was further evidence that this administration has no regard whatsoever for what needs […]
A Philadelphia cop got a lot too full of himself and a deputy district attorney failed an inteligence test when they arrested and then charged, respectively, Anthony Riley with singing in a public park. Riley, 20, had faced a three month sentence after loudly singing "A Change is Gonna Come" in Rittenhouse Square in downtown […]
Peter Hartlaub, the editor of The Mustang Daily when I was doing my two quarters as a reporter on the paper, has a great column in today's San Francisco Chronicle on the dwindling right to set off small explosives to celebrate the 4th of July. This country was founded on blowing stuff up, and 231 […]
Today I turn 35 years old and there's no words of wisdom or assorted platitudes that come to mind, just a line from a Garth Brooks song: "I'm much too young to feel this damn old." As always, gifts to mark this solemn occasion can be delivered in the form of cold, hard credit cards […]
From today's editorial on the Libby commutation on the "conservative" San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page. Libby – and Cheney, too – were highly reckless in leaking the name of CIA official Valerie Plame as part of a payback scheme aimed at her husband, an administration critic. Apparently no one was following the case closely. There […]
President Bush announced today that he's commuting I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence. Libby will still have to pay a $250,000 fine and serve two years probation, but will not serve any prison time. President Bush announced this controversial action on a Friday so it would get less scrutiny. Sorry, I was channeling my inner-lefty conspiracy […]
As of the writing of this blog post, Michael Moore's "crockumentary" SiCKO has a 91 percent positive rating over at RottenTomatoes.com. I'm not going to fatten Moore's wallet, because there's been more than enough actual reporting (as opposed to movie reviews) that exposes the film as fatally flawed. All of this means that it will […]
Ed Whelan over at National Review's Bench Memos blog takes a little slam at the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Et Tu, WSJ? [Ed Whelan] In the course of an otherwise intelligent discussion of the Supreme Court’s just-ended term, this house editorial in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal states: “In outlawing a […]
The top Catholic cleric in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Pius Ncube, is begging the Brits to invade the country and overthrow thug President Robert Mugabe. ZIMBABWE’S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to […]