A Veterans Affairs Dept. report notes that military veterans are having a tough time finding work after being discharged. Strained by war, recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years due partly to employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills, […]
Every couple of months the Union-Tribune's library holds a book sale for charity in order to get rid of some of the plethora of review books they receive. Today, I managed to pick up: I looked for Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," but if there was a copy, it was long gone before I got in […]
Here's a couple more articles on reporters and their political leanings, both from Time magazine. Here's one by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen -- a Hillary Clinton voter. Here's the second by James Poniewozik -- a Barack Obama voter. You didn't think either of them would've voted Republican?
Some supporter of Barack Obama found my post entitled "Barack Obama is Black?" I want to point out "Jose's" comment and note that there are far too many people who "think" like him. He is a good man who is gonna make everyones pay equal(so to speak)…. They don't promise to make everyone's pay equal […]
I wanted to highlight this sentence in a Washington Post report that has become boilerplate in any article involving waterboarding. Independent legal experts have called the technique torture and said its use is barred by U.S. laws and treaties under all circumstances. It's missing a word at the beginning: "Some independent legal experts..." The Post's […]
I've repeatedly made the case that journalists would be better off if they admitted their political leanings and did their best to report fairly and objectively and let readers adjust as they see fit for the, to borrow a golf term, lie of the green. I made the case most extensively in this letter to […]
I came across this comment over at TierneyLab, the blog of New York Times libertarian science columnist John Tierney. In our modern world, computer program algorithms coordinate commercial aircraft traffic across entire continents, optimize investment strategies for billion dollar wall street portfolios and define national political poling [sic] strategies. However, it now appears that brilliant […]
Via Blackfive comes this disturbing story of the court martial of retired Green Beret Smokey Taylor, 80. Retired Army Green Beret Smokey Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling good about it. Taylor, at age 80 the oldest member of Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association, was on trial by […]
The sound wasn't turned up on the TV set closest to my desk this evening as the Super Tuesday returns rolled in, so I didn't hear any explanations on air for this curiosity/conspiracy that I'm about to describe. I'm sure that there's a good explanation for all of this, but some super-pollster is going to […]
CIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden confirmed Tuesday for the first time that the United States had used the interrogation technique known as waterboarding three times. Those waterboarded included: Abu Zubaydah, the man who planned the unsuccessful 2000 milennium attack on Los Angeles International Airport. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who masterminded the attack on the USS […]