There's an old warning to those who would take on newspapers cautioning them against going after a business that buys ink by the barrel. Nowadays that isn't even accurate; newspapers buy ink by the tanker truck. But if there's one thing true about the Internet and the proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use publishing tools it's that […]
Sen. John McCain's mom caused a minor brouhaha on the campaign trail with this little observation. When asked about former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s experience by Hardball host Chris Matthews, Roberta McCain, who’s campaigning in New Hampshire with her son at the age of 95, said "as far as the Salt Lake City thing, he's […]
Gregory Popcak rips into the dishonest Garry Wills "the Bible doesn't speak to the abortion issue" piece I mentioned last week. Popcak's piece is devastating to Wills' lame argument. In his essay, Wills cherry-picks Thomas Aquinas' theology; employs a simplistically idiosyncratic interpretation of Scripture and massacres history, science and philosophy, all in a fevered attempt […]
Today's New York Times has an article on the meetings President Bush commonly has with the families of those who have lost loved ones in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since this is the Times, it's no Veterans Day weekend puff piece. The head of a group of about 100 anti-war military families complains […]
The San Diego Union-Tribune is running a series of articles on various members of the military in honor of Veterans Day. I encourage you to check out this article, with video, of Marine Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch (retired). Popaditch achieved a measure of fame when he was photographed smoking a cigar as a statue of […]
...but plainly bogus. To verify the accuracy of this, I punched in some other blog addresses. When the Volokh Conspiracy -- a heavy-duty law-blog -- is assessed as a "Junior High School" reading level, something is up.
The Senate last night confirmed former judge Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. A divided Senate narrowly confirmed former federal judge Michael B. Mukasey last night as the 81st attorney general, giving the nominee the lowest level of congressional support of any Justice Department leader in the past half-century. The 53 to […]
This story is a week old, but I'm trying to clean up some of the browser windows that I've got open. Concurrent Technologies began two decades ago doing metalworking research in Pennsylvania's struggling rust belt. In the years since, the Johnstown, Pa., company has become a federal contracting chameleon. It is an intelligence adviser, an […]
Curiously, I hadn't gotten this e-mail that's been making the rounds. Commonsense & Wonder did, and I reprint it here: We all have our disagreements with President Bush. Immigration, U.S. Attorney firings, Iraq , Darfur , etc., are all hot topics these days. The following “speech” was written recently by an ordinary Maineiac [a resident […]
Also over at The Washington Post, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has a post curiously entitled "Kucinich Is Right." Dennis Kucinich called his party's bluff. If Democrats believe half of the things they say about the Bush administration, then they ought to impeach both Bush and Cheney. I don't believe that Bush and Cheney "lied us […]