A couple of notes on The New York Times' most inaccurate, unhinged columnist. First, his beardedness gave an interview to the Asia Times with the following gem: Tax increases: "We should be getting 28% of GDP [gross domestic product] in revenue. We are only collecting 17%." As Donald Luskin helpfully illustrates, federal tax receipts weren't […]
Unbowed, or more likely ignorant, of their previous fisking, The New York Times editorial writers continue to demostrate that I am overqualified for an editorial writing job at the nation's "paper of record." The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. Granted, Sen. […]
The only good thing about the continuing Newsweek flap over Gitmo is that they keep showing the cover of the issue that the story appeared in.
Democratic Reps. David Obey and John Dingell are asking for an investigation into the head of the "Corporation" for Public Broadcasting's Kenneth Tomlinson after he has initiated reforms to make the network's programming more balanced wacko right-wing. There was one statement in Obey and Dingell's letter that nearly caused me to spray water all over […]
The New York Times decision to put its columnists and editorials behind a subscription-only service is going to save me quite a bit of time responding to dishonest garbage like this. Unless the Democrats are smart enough to back down and delay their filibuster fight for a Supreme Court nominee, the Republicans are going to […]
The New York Times apparently doesn't like the fact that its mostly-liberal editorial page and columnists get criticized by the horde of bloggers on the Internet, so they've decided to start charging -- $50 a year to read Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd -- beginning in September. I don't anticipate this being really successful. I […]
Last week's report in Newsweek that alleged a U.S. interrogator at Gitmo tossed a copy of the Koran in the crapper has turned out to be "innaccurate." This development comes after the report apparently was resposible for riots in Afghanistan and Pakistan which left four dead and more than 60 injured. Let's set aside the […]
From a press conference on Nov. 21, 2001 and recounted in a letter in this month's National Review magazine. Perhaps because of all the attention given the nomination of John Bolton, and of would-be federal judges, we have not heard much about Gen. Peter Pace, President Bush's choice to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff. […]
To counter Paul Krugman's dishonesty, the New York Times gives us John Tierney.
It appears as though CBS has chosen to use the editing technique favored by the late night comics for a less-than-comedic effect. According to former federal judge and special prosecutor Ken Starr, a Monday evening CBS News report that characterized him as being opposed to the nuclear/Byrd option on filibusters was, in fact, creative editing. […]