In the jobs version of the great chain of being, doctors, soldiers, teachers and police officers always rank near the top. At the other end of the spectrum are journalists, politicians, used car salesmen and lobbyists. So, being a journalist is bad enough, now the stinkin' politicians want to make me a lobbyist too? "Section […]
Nope, not our troops in Iraq, but President Bush. For more than a year, ever since the New York Times revealed the National Security Agency's terrorist wiretapping program involving international communications, conservatives have backed the president's actions based upon his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief and the legal authority of In Re Sealed Case (2002). Today, […]
The New York Times is at it again. It's an axiom that 95 percent of statistics can be used to prove 100 percent of anything, and that's what the Times did the other day in it's article proclaiming a new day for women on the Upper West Side: "51% of Women Are Now Living Without […]
Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama has announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a run for the presidency in 2008. Obama's biography is rather thin gruel for a run for the presidency -- eight years in the Illinois State Senate and two years in the U.S. Senate -- for a presidential run. However, in […]
A year or two ago Burger King over in Great Britain got in trouble because the small artistic representation of soft serve ice cream, when viewed from a certain orientation, looked roughly like the arabic word for allah. The standard Islamic grievance groups went into full swing, and now the stylized swirl is no more. […]
Via Instapundit comes this bit of falsehood in an Associated Press story. The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush administration rejected after taking office in 2001. For the record, the United States was never bound by Kyoto because the Clinton administration never sent it to the Senate for ratification after […]
Most of the commentary in the mainstream media and the blogosphere is rather predictable and easily classified. However, for those who are interested, I wanted to highlight this piece by the Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon in Sunday's Washington Post: A Skeptic's Case For the Surge.
The man who replaced California Democrat Rep. Jane Harmon as the head of the House Select Committee on Intelligence doesn't appear to be one of the more thoughtful, responsible or stalwart political figures of our time. From the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) via National Review: From the office of Congressman Joe Wilson (R, SC): In […]
You don't have to read past the first sentence of this New York Times editorial to know that the rest is bunk. The tax system in the United States is supposed to mitigate inequality. A civics refresher course for the Times editors on the 16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect […]
Well, it looks as though we're now just one more short step from getting justice in the Duke lacrosse "rape" case: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has asked the North Carolina Attorney General for a special prosecutor to replace him. For some good analysis, I encourage you to check out K.C. Johnson's site: Durham-in-Wonderland. There's […]