This first got notice in the blogosphere last week, but Sunday's Detroit News provides a little more information than previous reports. The United Auto Workers says Marine reservists should show a little more semper fi if they want to use the union's parking lot. The Marine Corps motto means "always faithful," but the union says […]
Teresa Heinz Kerry was in the Pacific Northwest at a fund-raiser for Democrat Rep. Adam Smith. She opened her mouth, and her brain fell out. A practicing Catholic, as is her husband, Heinz Kerry remains outraged at attacks by bishops on her husband's pro-choice views. "You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before […]
New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat, told people at a community forum in Ithaca yesterday that he had proof that Karl Rove had planted the forged National Guard documents used by CBS News. When confronted, he acknowledged that he didn't have real proof only fake proof. Audience Member: Do you have any evidence for […]
I think we'd have less violent protests from "peace-loving" leftists if this happened more often. WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to […]
Fox News reported that California Democrat Lorretta Sanchez lost a game of "gotcha" with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today in a hearing. At issue: the number of Iraqi forces that have been trained. Sanchez: The numbers that you (Rumsfeld) banty [sic] around about how many troops we really have out there who are around out […]
More proof that ESPN's Lee "Don't forget Gino Torretta" Corso is a complete and total moron. Corso threw a major fit while being interviewed by a couple of sports radio guys in Dallas earlier this week. (Audio is here.) For those of you who are unfamiliar with Corso's nickname as I have given him above: […]
James Taranto points out a letter in The New York Times science section on the brouhaha over Harvard President Larry Summers suggestion that maybe men and women are wired differently. To the Editor: Many years ago, after taking the G.R.E., I discovered that there were two sets of norms for reporting my math scores - […]
News channels have a kind of sick love affair with flashy, eye-catching graphics that convey little tidbits of information. However, sometimes it's better to just leave it alone. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
From the country that shows more concern about the safety of burglars than of homeowners comes this report on how British law enforcement is making sure that the roadways are safe. LONDON (Reuters) - Police called in a spotter plane, helicopter and video-equipped patrol car to help convict a woman who ate an apple while […]
SpongeBob SquarePants is not a homosexual, despite what some people say. You'd have thought they would've learned their lesson after the whole Tinky Winky episode. However, in their "defense," they're only using similar standards for determining sexual preference as others have used to determine that Abraham Lincoln was gay.