It appears President Barack Obama's teleprompter needs to spell everything out phonetically. All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on. After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the […]
VoiceofSanDiego.org has published a softball Q&A with Art Cooley, who helped found the Environmental Defense Fund, entitled "The Guy Who Defeated DDT." Of course, the outright ban on DDT which Cooley and his friends succeeded with decades ago also resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Africans from malaria. I especially loved this […]
There's an interesting bit in Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz's latest piece, a profile of "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft that tells us one of two things: Kroft is either a conservative or a far-left liberal -- there is no middle ground. One reliable source -- Kroft's wife, journalist Jennet Conant -- says he […]
...just wait until it's free. That's the line from the incomparable P.J. O'Rourke and the death of actress Natasha Richardson apparently has some people asking if that "free" Canadian health care is worth what you pay for it. A day before Natasha Richardson's scheduled funeral, some are wondering if a medical helicopter might have been […]
In the rush to pass the stimulus bill, no one noticed that some Democrats had added a sop to the Teamsters Union -- a pilot program allowing 98 (98!) Mexican trucks into the U.S. as part of NAFTA was shut down. As the Wall Street Journal noted, the Mexican trucks in the program actually had […]