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 […]
Bill Clinton is back in the news for telling another whopper -- and it's not about how big a fish he caught. As The New York Post points out: Bill Clinton has always been a stranger to the truth, but is it possible that he's never heard of Google? Apparently. How else to explain his […]
Today's Wall Street Journal has an op-ed piece by a former prisoner in North Korea's "Political Prison Camp No. 14." Unfortunately, the link is for subscribers only. An excerpt: I was a slave under club and fist. It was a world where love, happiness, joy or resistance found no meaning. This was the situation I […]
Does it come with a check? CNN's lame defense of its failure to vet the YouTube questioners continues to diminish their credibility. The whole point of these ground-breaking CNN/YouTube debates is to focus on substantive questions of concern to real people and to throw open the process to a wider range of Americans all around […]
The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes on CNN's vetting of questioners during the CNN/YouTube debate from today's "Special Report with Brit Hume." Well, remember CNN says they're just average Americans that are asking the questions that Americans are interested in. But they had 5,000 people send in tapes and they picked out those 34. And, included […]
I defended CNN a couple weeks ago when it turned out that several of the "undecided voters" at the Democratic Debate were in fact political operatives of one sort or the other. While it would’ve been nice for CNN to get less politically activist questioners, remember that that is a pretty good list of the […]