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 […]
While Politifact.com has determined that President Barack Obama has not really broken his promise not to raise taxes on the bottom 95 percent of by passing an increase in the cigarette tax, other liberals are convinced it's just a matter of time. Looking at the gap between revenues and costs for Obama's health care plans, […]
The big news over the weekend didn't make the major network newscasts. Instead, it was left to the blogs and less prominent news sources. For those unaware, bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria reported Friday that Auto czar Steve Rattner had threatened Chrysler investors who are not TARP recipients with the ire of the White House Press […]
It took less than a week for now-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to start sounding like his cohorts Sen. John Kerry and former Sen. John Edwards who once said that if you elected them to the White House, actor Christopher Reed would walk again. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the "crapweasel" had this […]
Let's start this discussion with a definition of terms. Acceptance: ac-cept-ance 2.favorable reception; approval; favor. Tolerance: tol-er-ance 1.a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry. 2.a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own. Acceptance […]
Former Chargers QB Jack Kemp died yesterday. Our prayers are with his family. UPDATE! The Wall Street Journal has an editorial and a combination of excerpts from various Op-Eds Kemp wrote for the paper over the years. Both are must-reading.
I've been bashing Politifact.com lately because I think it deserves it. I've been critical of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham in the past, but he's right on this one: The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror. Now, he's off by a year -- it should be 2006. However, […]