I find the timing of this statement by CNN president Jonathan Klein to be poorly timed. CNN President Jonathan Klein implies ratings news leader FOXNEWS is mired in coverage of "meaningless nonsense," claiming: "Fourteen Americans dead, and they have Natalee Holloway on," Klein says. "And they're supposedly America's news channel." "It's easy and it's brainless," […]
Mark Steyn takes a long, hard look at the Cindy Sheehan media experience, and sees the focus is on the wrong thing. Yet in the wreckage of Pat and Cindy Sheehan's marriage there is surely a lesson for the Democratic Party. As Cindy says, they're both Democrats, but she's "more liberal" and "more radicalized." There […]
Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine has it half-right and half-wrong. The right: An anonymous tip that nearly landed Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in jail probably was not valuable enough to justify a promise of confidentiality, his editor said Tuesday. Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc., lamented that reporters covering Washington […]
It really should come as no suprise that Paul Krugman is dishonest and misrepresents facts -- and John Hinderaker caught him at it. Go back and look at the 1934 Commission's table projecting the number and percentage of retirees through the year 2000. The Commission projected the percentage of those over 65 to level off […]
I just walked in the door from seeing the last showing of the day of "The Great Raid." It's not quite as emotionally moving as the last great WW II movie to come down the pipe, "Saving Private Ryan," but it's well worth your time to check it out. I'd read a little about the […]
Last week I took a swing at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's saintification of the loony liberal left's favorite mom, Cindy Sheehan. It should come as little surprise that it only takes a few days for bloggers to turn Dowd's moral authority back on her. It also comes as little surprise that most of […]
I've got CNN's "The Situation Room" on and they're running a feature called "The Cafferty File." Jack Cafferty is doing a report on how some sanity may be returning to the TSA with regard to passenger screening. Cafferty: We may create a run on bows and arrows here, Wolf. We're approaching the 4th anniversary of […]
The banner has once again been updated because, while New York Times columnist Paul Krugman decided to use his Monday column space to address Social Security, it was merely to defend the status quo. Don't believe your own knowledge or common sense, there's apparently nothing wrong with Social Security that a big tax increase won't […]
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 […]