The Chief Operating Officer of Revision3 -- some Silicon Valley company -- had his home broken into last night. While he was at home. While he was awake. So what does this guy do? He Twitters the break-in. And then sets up a video feed. He doesn't call the cops. He doesn't shoot the guy. […]
A $410 billion omnibus spending bill is sitting on President Barack Obama's desk. The bill contains nearly 9,000 earmarks of the kind that Obama campaigned against. Until recently, some of the earmarks still had Obama's name on them from his time in the Senate. (They didn't remove those earmarks -- they just changed the name […]
Time magazine's online edition had a story yesterday listing "The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next." The intro contains this sentence: "The Rocky Mountain News closed, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, owned by Hearst, will almost certainly close or only publish online." Why the P-I doesn't make the top 10 list […]
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has the difficult task of defending the administration from a press corps that's out for blood that wants to help. Today's press briefing included this interesting exchange: Q Let me take one more crack at what Dan was getting at before. Talking about tomorrow on education, the administration's critics […]
Last Monday, I predicted, based on two op-ed pieces decrying the Senate's filibuster, that the New York Times editorial page would soon follow with an editorial attacking the GOP for using the filibuster. Today, the Times, proved me right. And if there was any question on whether the Times is partisan or principled, they answered […]
When asked by Pastor Rick Warren "at what point does a baby get human rights?" Then-candidate Barack Obama responded that the question was "above his pay grade." Today, Obama increased his pay grade, stating that human embryos are definitely before the point at which a baby gets human rights -- or even a modicum of […]
Now that we have a Democrat in the White House, we won't have to worry about the media manufacturing embarrassing images of the President having fun while people in the armed forces are dying. That's certainly one of the reasons why President George W. Bush gave up golf after the War in Iraq started. It […]
There's a new paper out that is pouring some cold water on the climate change alarmists. I'll try to explain this in layman's terms, because the science can be difficult even if you do follow it rather closely. Carbon dioxide -- manmade or otherwise -- is a miniscule gas in the atmosphere, even growing as […]
I'm pointing out this article from FactCheck.org on the oft-repeated claim that someone declares bankruptcy on on average every 30 seconds due to medical bills. Earlier tonight, columnist Mark Shields repeated the number -- characterizing it as 120 people every hour -- on the NewsHour. Last year, someone filed for bankruptcy roughly every 30 seconds, […]
With the market continuing to tank, The New York Times Company doesn't look half bad when compared to most other media companies. E.W. Scripps just closed down the Rocky Mountain News last week. Of course, the hated News Corp. of Rupert Murdoch does a bit better. For those interested, some Rocky staffers have started their […]