House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is catching some flak for a "Bible" quote that some people say never actually appears in the Bible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is "fictional," according to biblical scholars. In her April […]
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has a pretty good article on the Democrats and their less-than-wise opposition to the Colombia free trade pact. I encourage you to read it. However, it was this little slam at the end that got my blood pressure up a bit. One of President Bush’s most costly actions was […]
Brian Ross and ABC News are lying -- again. Bob Owens calls them on it. The focus of the story, according to ABC News, is that U.S. dealers of civilian firearms are to blame for Mexico's drug cartels and their violence problems... so why do they highlight an M60 general purpose machine gun, a weapons […]
P.J. O'Rourke spends 24 hours on the USS Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier. Landing on an aircraft carrier was the most fun I'd ever had with my trousers on. And the 24 hours that I spent aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt--the "Big Stick"--were an equally unalloyed pleasure. I love big, moving machinery. And machinery doesn't get […]
Do you ever wonder if the newsmagazines were right back in the 1970s when they were warning us of a coming ice age? Well, an article in an Australian newspaper suggests that we're overdue for a big chill. THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time […]
CNN pulled a dumb-dumb on its Web site. You can order T-shirts with "ripped" from CNN's headlines. Of course, you can get the T-shirt to say anything you want by just changing the URL. Unfortunately, you can't order them. UPDATE CNN has fixed this loophole.
I just got back from watching the penultimate showing of the night of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" at the local cineplex. A couple of things to note: First, it's rated "R" for good reason. Second, it's really funny. Jason Segel plays Peter Bretter, a "composer" who is in a long term relationship with Sarah Marshall (unattainable […]
Karl Rove wrote a letter to MSNBC's Dan Abrams which contained a number of questions regarding Abrams' personal journalistic standards (or lack thereof). Unsure of what to do, Abrams sent the letter, with his answers interspersed [reproduced here in bold] to his mentor, Keith Olbermann. Dear Mr. Abrams: Karl Rove called me "mister." On April […]
I'm looking forward to watching HBO's "John Adams" miniseries once it hits DVD, but someone's got the history wrong -- either HBO or the Los Angeles Times. I'm betting on the one with "four levels of editors." In his portrayal of our second president, Paul Giamatti creates a man perpetually dissatisfied, disgusted by the preening […]
What if "fossil fuels" weren't made of fossils at all? What if the earth naturally made petroleum? What if gasoline was a renewable resource? Imagine the howls from the environmentalist left if there was no such thing as "peak oil." It may be true. Just what the latest Brazil find (dubbed "Sugarloaf Mountain") could mean […]