A few months ago the story of a few Mexican nationals (read: illegal immigrants) was all over the local news. Apparently there had been a report of some shoplifting at a local J.C. Penney store and, depending on who you believe, either J.C. Penney employees, or a cop on his own, stopped and talked to […]
Conflicted 9/11 commission member Jamie Gorelick is being called on to resign by GOP Rep. James Sensenbrenner. Commissioner Gorelick is in the unfair position of trying to address the key issue before the Commission when her own actions are central to the events at issue. The public cannot help but ask legitimate questions about her […]
Perhaps the biggest problem with the 9/11 commission is the presence of former Clinton administration deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick. Like the others, Gorelick is a political partisan. Unlike the others, Gorelick should be answering questions, not asking them. For those who watched today's 9/11 commission hearings, you saw Attorney General John Ashcroft refer to […]
I didn't get up this morning at a ridiculous hour to watch National Security Adviser Condoleezza get quizzed by the politicized 9/11 commission. You can find a full transcript here. I'll try to get around to reading it later tonight and post some thoughts if anything catches my interest.
As a follow-up to Sunday's post on pressure groups striving to "educate" journalists, the Union-Tribune published this story on a county employee who "married" her partner and was turned-down for marriage benefits. The article includes a picture of the "newlyweds" and is largely sympathetic. It contains no opposing point of view on gay marriage -- […]
As I mentioned before, I've been reading Rick Atkinson's "An Army at Dawn." One anecdote that Atkinson relates is how government censors edited letters home from the troops. Journalists and other liberal conspiracy theorists who regularly decry government limitations on media reporting from the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom should look at just how far […]
So I'm looking at my referrer logs and one thing leads to another which leads to this. I must confess that I don't often venture into the far left side of the blogosphere because there is a plague of Bush Derangement Syndrome which is not conducive to rational thought. That having been said, Sean023's (why […]
I had no problem voting early Tuesday afternoon using the new touch screen machines. I talked with the poll workers, and my precinct was one of several across the county that had problems with the new machines. Unlike some others that were delayed by several hours, my Escondido polling site was able to get the […]
Voters in California and several other states go to the ballot box tomorrow for the Super Tuesday primary. For California residents wanting my take on the ballot initiatives (I'll leave you to your own devices on the candidates for various races), here they are: Prop. 55 is a $12.3 billion bond issue for building new […]
"Best of the Web Today" notes yesterday's vote in the House to approve the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (aka Laci and Conner's law). The law would recognize that an attack on a pregnant woman actually affects two individuals -- the woman and her child. Pro-abortion zealots (their position on laws like this one put […]