As she was growing up in the White House, Chelsea Clinton was, rightly, 99 percent off-limits to probing questions and coverage from the press. No longer. Chelsea is an adult and she's actively campaigning for her mother. She continues to refuse to answer questions from the press -- even if the reporter in question is […]
Last week I noted a comment by an Barack Obama supporter on this site who touted Obama as going to make "everyones [sic] pay equal." Yeah, the commenter is a nut, but it appears as though a lot of Obama supporters share those communist yearnings. That's a screencap from a video you can find here […]
Vladimir Putin has proven that he doesn't know history and he's condemning Russia to repeat it. Vladimir Putin has announced that if NATO does not act in a manner more to his taste in future negotiations, he will take action to let them know he is not to be trifled with by unleashing an arms […]
MSNBC suspended reporter/TV personality David Shuster on Friday after he asked the deeply insightful question regarding Sen. Hillary Clinton's use of daughter Chelsea in the campaign: "Doesn't it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" MSNBC's decision to suspend Shuster tells us a lot more about […]
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 […]