The sun didn’t set yesterday before the professional left had pinned blame for the murders of six people and the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Sarah Palin, the tea party, Glenn Beck, et. al. William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection has screenshots of the accusations (and especially the hypocrisy) of the usual suspects on […]
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You can follow all the news at just about any media site or blog. All I want to add is this: Pray for those injured in the attack and the families of those killed. This was an evil act. Blaming any political party, movement, ideology or individual (other than the shooter himself) for this attack […]
President George H.W. Bush was famously portrayed by the media as out of touch when he expressed wonder at a supermarket scanner. The truth of that case is that the technology he was wowed by was an advanced scanner that could read a barcode even after it had been mangled. Today we get an assessment […]
The GOP has had control of the House for less than 48 hours and already the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are already arguing that Republicans have reverted to their free-spending ways and that the Democratic Party is the party of fiscal restraint. At her final press conference as speaker on Monday, […]
I’ve been saying for years that the various “peace processes” in the Middle East aimed at getting the Palestinians and Israelis to live next to one another without killing each other were useless until the media and culture of the Palestinians prepared the people for that day. The Palestinian equivalent of Sesame Street where a […]
The Society for Professional Journalists is considering whether or not to remove notorious anti-Semite Helen Thomas’ name from the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award at its executive committee meeting this weekend. The SPJ’s magazine, Quill, has published pro and con letters on the subject and I wanted to draw attention to Lloyd Weston’s defense of keeping […]
Shortly after taking office, President Barack Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin after Walpin had found evidence that Obama ally and former pro basketball player Kevin Johnson had misappropriated more than $800,000 in federal funds for Americorps. Today the D.C. court of appeals ruled that Walpin’s firing was legal, a ruling that effectively guts the […]
Some background: Washington Post wonder boy/blogger Ezra Klein went on MSNBC last week and said the constitution was hard to understand. Yes, to answer your question: any idiot can get a job at the Post. What followed was this bit of explanation from Don Surber, who’s far too intelligent to get labeled a “wonk” on […]
On his last day in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger abused the power of his office one last time to reward a political crony and undermine justice. On his final night in office, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, Esteban Nunez, who had pleaded guilty […]