February 5, 2008
Unconscious bias

A lot of media bias isn't conscious, it's merely a result of the way the reporter sees the world. Here's an example of an unconscious right-wing bias courtesy of the Associated Press: When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules. One party takes decisive action. The other hems and haws. […]

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February 5, 2008
Super Tuesday

The GOP presidential race should be a heck of a lot clearer tomorrow morning. Super Tuesday has 24 states voting -- including delegate-rich California and New York. Sen. John McCain is the prohibitive favorite, but Gov. Mitt Romney has an outside shot. Gov. Mike Huckabee is nothing more than a stalking horse for McCain. I've […]

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February 4, 2008
Standing up for free speech

Some easily offended members of the religion of pieces have discovered that Wikipedia's entry for the founder of their religion, Muhammad, includes historical artwork depicting him. This has resulted in a lot of anger and a petition, but no riots -- yet. Surprisingly, the editors at Wikipedia have demonstrated a heck of a lot more […]

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February 4, 2008
Pot, kettle, blackness

I'm certainly not going to defend the free-spending ways of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress over the past several years, but the unveiling of Bush's new budget plan has proven that while ready cash may be in short supply on Capitol Hill, gall is not. Selected quotes: "Today's budget bears all the hallmarks of […]

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February 4, 2008
A hero lost, media mistakes made

Another of the Greatest Generation has died. Raymond Jacobs, believed to be the last surviving member of the group of Marines photographed during the original U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at age 82. Jacobs died January 29 of natural causes at a Redding hospital, his daughter, Nancy Jacobs, told […]

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February 4, 2008
Berkeley vs. the Marines

A bunch of left-wing crazies showed up at the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley on Friday and protested. The pseudonymous photographer/operative known only as Zombie took some pictures of the lunatics which you can find here. What I found most interesting, however, was in this San Francisco Chronicle report. As the right-wing blogosphere railed […]

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February 2, 2008
The depravity of the terrorists

The death toll may top 100 in yesterday's horrific attacks at a Baghdad pet market -- and that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that the bombers weren't deluded and evil young men convinced that slaughtering innocents was their ticket to paradise and 72 willing virgins. Instead, the cowardly terrorists used […]

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