The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto catches The New York Times editorial page in one of its classic partisan flip-flops. "In its closing months, the Bush administration is pulling out all the stops in its eight-year effort to undermine the Endangered Species Act. In mid-August, the administration proposed two dangerous regulatory changes. One would free […]
Miss California USA pageant co-director Shanna Moakler resigned yesterday because unattainable Hoystory girlfriend Carrie Prejean got to keep her crown. Moakler made the following statement: “I cannot with a clear conscience move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe organization when I no longer believe in it, or the contracts I signed committing myself as […]
Today, President Barack Obama reversed his earlier commitment to release a series of photos showing abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. personnel. It should be noted that the personnel involved in abuse have been punished. Despite claims by the ACLU and their ilk, these photographs would have served no purpose other than […]
I'm sure all of you remember that disaster of a "stimulus" bill that was passed earlier this year with only two GOP votes (Specter didn't count then, he counts even less now). The drumbeat was that we had to do something and we had to do it now or really bad things would befall the […]
Sorry for the pun, but I can't get my arms around how in-the-tank you have to be to write this drivel: "May I change the subject," said a prominent Washington theologian at a recent dinner. The conversation had been high-minded -- religion, philosophy, the nature of evil. "I'd like to talk about Michelle Obama's arms," […]
Director of the White House Military Office, Louis Caldera, has resigned. Caldera famously authorized a low-level flyover of lower Manhattan with one of the jumbo jets used to transport the president and two fighter jets causing a big scare. I did nothing so egregiously stupid to lose my job.
I'd been joking around for the past few months that the San Diego Union-Tribune newsroom was like a hospice ward -- people were just waiting around to die. Well, I was more right than I knew. Today, I found out I was one of the people dying. So, if you or someone you know is […]
The Sun has entered a period of relative quiet over the past year or so. A lack of sunspots is key to good cell phone service and satellite TV, but it can also affect the climate. Sunspot minimums, like the Maunder and Dalton, have been synonymous with global cooling and subsequent ice ages. This is […]
Sen. Arlen Specter's megalomaniacal push to be Senator-for-life from Pennsylvania has taken an ugly turn. If last weekend's odious suggestion that Jack Kemp would still be alive if only Specter's former party had spent more on cancer research wasn't bad enough, it turns out that Specter is perpetrating a scam on people concerned about cancer […]
President Barack Obama has promised to have the most open and transparent administration ever. He's made good on this promise by releasing "torture" memos that advantage terrorists around the world, despite the urging by the current CIA director and four of his predecessors that the president not do so. President Obama would have none of […]