With not enough John Roberts news to satiate their August-enhanced thirst for news. You want proof that I have less than zero influence over news decisions at the San Diego Union-Tribune (and therefore why I'm allowed to do this blog)? Look no further than today's A1 centerpiece. Unless I'm mistaken (which is certainly possible, but […]
America-hating cartoonist Ted Rall has "retracted" one of his cartoons because he is a moron. "I read a story that came off as possible, sourced it using previously reliable informants, and ended up doing a cartoon that I wouldn't have done had I known then what I know now. So this is a retraction of […]
Thursday's New York Times included five letters in response to Maureen Dowd's column (which I ripped into yesterday). Of the five letters related to Cindy Sheehan and her complete mental collapse, not a one of them was critical of either Dowd's sainting of Sheehan or Sheehan's trashing of her son and his sacrifice. However, one […]
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd takes up the plight of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq last year. If you've been napping for the past few days, let me bring you up to speed. Ms. Sheehan (whom I truly feel sorry for, both because she has […]
American freelance journalist/blogger Steven Vincent was murdered yesterday in Iraq. I was still at work earlier this evening when word came over the wires that Vincent had been killed -- the news will make it into the south and city editions of today’s Union-Tribune. Over the next few days and weeks we will hopefully learn […]
Jane Fonda is going to go on an anti-war tour. Fonda's announcement includes this "well, duh" statement: "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam," she said. "I carry a lot of baggage from that." To quote the movie "Spanglish": "Sometimes low self-esteem is just good common sense."
Today's New York Times has a piece under the heading "MILITARY MEMO" which expounds on the question in the headline "All Quiet on the Home Front, and Some Soldiers Are Asking Why." The Bush administration's rallying call that America is a nation at war is increasingly ringing hollow to men and women in uniform, who […]
This is the most bizarre "editor's note" I've seen in years. The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the […]
More instruction for the Dumb Dick Durbin: In May 1969, I was taken out for interrogation on suspicion of planning an escape. I was forced to remain awake for long periods of time -- three weeks on one occasion. On the first of June, I was put in a cement box with a steel door, […]
I watched it -- and frankly it was a big ho-hum. Bush said nothing that he hadn't said before -- he was right then, he's right now. We will leave Iraq when victory has been achieved. Victory is defined as a relatively stable, functioning democracy able to defend its borders and police its interior. "More […]