If all you read about a report dumped Friday afternoon on the Bush administration-era warrantless wiretapping program was the New York Times account of it, you'd get a less-than-completely-honest account of the program's history and effectiveness. I encourage you to read the Times article and then check out this brief post by former federal prosecutor […]
California is starting to issue IOUs and what is the state legislature hard at work on? It's impossible to make things like this up.
If the President Bush had attempted to illegally fire an inspector general who was raising a ruckus over a deal cut with a campaign supporter who had spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on his personal whims, the press would be going ape. It's not, but that's exactly what the mainstream media has been […]
The House yesterday passed the cap-and-tax bill -- a bit of insanity that should get most Democrats representing Middle America run out on a rail in 2010. What's most troubling about yesterday's move was that the cap-and-trade bill didn't really exist as such when it was "passed" yesterday. Instead of a bill, the House passed […]
The House is scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill tomorrow. Only in the bizarro world of Congress can elected representatives pass a massive tax hike in the middle of the worst economic crisis in at least 30 years -- in the form of a bill most of them haven't even read. There's a […]
I spent a couple days up in San Luis Obispo last week interviewing for a job. Because I'm a longtime newspaperman I picked up a copy of the old Telegram-Tribune, now known simply as the Tribune. An editorial in that paper criticized local state Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee -- the new GOP minority leader -- for […]
Mark Steyn shares an article from the French-language Montreal newspaper about the wait time for a basic medical treatment in single-payer Canda. This story from Le Journal de Montréal is en français, but you don't have to know the lingo of the Continent to figure out the meaning of le mot "incontinent": Des patients souffrant […]
In a post earlier this month, I noted that gay rights organizations aren't interested in tolerance, they demand acceptance. Yesterday, legislation that would make gay marriage legal in New Hampshire faces a veto from a centrist Democrat governor because of gay marriage supporters. How can that be? Simple. To strike a compromise, both chambers had […]
I've been meaning to get around to writing a rather lengthy treatise on the techniques used on three top al Qaeda terrorists in 2002 and 2003. Unfortunately, exigent circumstances -- the mass layoffs at the Union-Tribune and my need to find a new job -- have conspired against me. In lieu of that well-written and […]
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 […]