I spent much of my free time this weekend with Clive Cussler's latest novel "The Chase." Cussler's made his name over the decades writing books featuring the National Underwater and Marine Agency's Dirk Pitt. The last one or two Dirk Pitt books have approached whatever is the literary equivalent of "jumping the shark." This is […]
I encourage you to take these two bits of information, synthesize them and apply them. First, author Robert Heinlein: If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for . . but there are certain to be ones you want […]
Tom Firey over at the Cato Institute took a look at Paul Krugman's Monday column and compared Krugman's so-called "factual" statements with the actual facts. Krugman doesn't come out looking good on several counts. First, in what appears to be the norm for employees of The New York Times, Krugman addresses Reagan-era economic policies without […]
Just about everyone except the Fidel Castro-loving leftists in Hollywood know what Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is all about. Today there's more evidence of how communism "works" -- food shortages due to price controls and the government seizure of private property. Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of […]
I generally don't turn down free money. But if the government really didn't need my $800, then it shouldn't have taken it in the first place. I'd also feel better about a rebate check if President Bush demonstrated some intestinal fortitude and declined to fund a bunch of congressional earmarks. A couple of related, but […]
Christianity Today has a good article on the wealth of pro-life movies that have been released in the past year by a usually pro-choice Hollywood. Rob Johnston, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, notes that with the exception of Bella, these films aren't being made by Christians. "The church cannot take credit […]
There you go again. The Center for Public Integrity has decided that the time is right to trot out the lie that the Bush administration purposefully, and with malice aforethought, "orchestrated [a] campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq." The report on the Bush adminstration's "orchestrated deception on the path to […]
The American left has been decrying the end of free speech, freedom of expression and civil rights under President George W. Bush's "police state" ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led to the passing of the Patriot Act. Columnists like Paul Krugman have publicly fretted that they could be sent to Gitmo. […]
Former Sen. Fred Thompson today dropped his presidential bid. Thompson entered the race in September 2007, more than half a year after most of his rivals. That, along with a luckluster start to his campaigning, doomed the actor and Tennessee Republican. I still haven't settled on a candidate, but Thompson was one of the ones […]
It's getting to the point that "media ethics" is earning the same sort of oxymoronic status once reserved for "military intelligence." Case in point is Sunday's New York Times public editor column on the undisclosed relationship between Times supreme court reporter Linda Greenhouse and her husband Eugene Fidell. (I first mentioned the case here.) After […]