During the 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama ridiculed a suggestion by Gov. Sarah Palin that an Obama administration would give Miranda warnings to terrorists. That implied promise that he was not so foolish as that Caribou Barbie made him out to be has officially expired. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents […]
Jim Geraghty takes a slam at President Barack Obama's "created or saved" X number of jobs claim. Look, I Just 'Saved or Created' Another Blog Post The Obama administration's relentless use of the "saved or created" metric, even in the face of increasing ridicule, is pretty remarkable. But if it won't die, perhaps the concept […]
I'm not sure which is worse, that Matt Yglesias is so ignorant of how we treat terrorists at Gitmo, or that he is so ignorant of the nature of the North Korean regime. Needless to say, it’s easy to recognize this sort of barbarism as the torture that it is when you read about it […]
A blogospheric brouhaha has erupted over Ed Whelan's outing of pseudonymous blogger "Pubulis" "Publius" as John Blevins of the South Texas School of Law. Glenn Reynolds has a round-up of links, which have generally been disapproving of Whelan's move. I've blogged under my own name since I started this blog more than 7 years ago […]
I found this today: No. It's not real. It's a National Review parody. But after this sort of thing you're forgiven for thinking it might be. Then we have this report from another Newsweek editor, Evan Thomas: Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just […]
The May unemployment numbers are out, and courtesy of Innocent Bystanders we have an updated graph of the jobless numbers vs. President Barack Obama's predictions in selling the stimulus. Questions: At what point does Obama begin to own the economy? How high does the unemployment rate have to go before the media starts seriously scrutinizing […]
John Weidner over at RandomJottings notes the not-so-subtle differences in the press releases from the Obama administration after the murders of abortionist George Tiller and that of the American soldier in Arkansas. Obama has belatedly, and quietly, issued a statement about the shooting of two soldiers in Arkansas: ... "I am deeply saddened by this […]
Twenty years ago today the Chinese communist government murdered untold numbers of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Wall Street Journal columnist Claudia Rosett, who was at the protests, remembers. That summer, after my junior year of high school, included a family trip to Washington, D.C. There, on July 4, I purchased a T-shirt from some […]
While I'm not sure whether I want to continue in the daily newspaper business when my tenure with the Union-Tribune is up this Friday, I continue to look at the journalism job sites because that's where my training and experience is. As someone who thinks that the recent talk of government bailouts of the newspaper […]