The New York Times ombudsman, aka "Public Editor," introduced himself to readers in a Sunday column. Daniel Okrent has been tasked with protecting the rapidly-diminishing credibility of America's "Newspaper of Record." It will be a difficult job, and he'll have many eyes upon him. However, make no mistake: Okrent is a liberal. I'd rather spend […]
The Weekly Standard has a good roundup of various news on President Bush's Thanksgiving visit to Baghdad, including an account of the trip by one of the soldiers who was there. The magazine also makes mention of last week's "scoop" by the Washington Post that the turkey and fixings that Bush held in that infamous […]
A New York Times editorial page has finally discovered the infamous, pilfered Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat memos. The piece, entitled "Partisan Hacking in Congress," is an abuse of the language. According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the outlets to receive the stolen memos, what occurred wasn't exactly hacking. A statement put out last […]
Vanderbilt University has gotten the Jayson Blair treatment from The New York Times. Reporter Alex Abramovich, instead of reporting what actually happened and what he actually saw, instead decided to "report" on the stereotypes he holds for those racist, ignorant southerners. The whole episode sent the Vandy vice chancellor on a letter-writing mission to the […]
The New York Times has a pretty positive candidate profile of every Democrat's favorite hatemonger, the Rev. Al Sharpton. The Times piece is fairly standard stuff, but it leaves out some facts that informed voters should know about. Not mentioned in the article are: Sharpton's demonstration, protest and incitement against the "white interlopers" at Freddie's […]
A judge has thrown out liberal strategist Barbra Streisand's lawsuit against the California Coastal Records Project for taking an aerial photograph of her Malibu cliffside home. This was a no-brainer decision -- and the fact that the judge is considering awarding legal fees to the CCRP is just icing on the cake.
The New York Times comes out in support of the faux peace plan for the Middle East. Scroll down for the link to Charles Krauthammer's explanation of why this is a very bad idea.
The Boston Globe's Sunday magazine has an in-depth article on the growth of evangelical Christianity on campuses including MIT and Harvard. Unfortunately, the piece is written much like one might try to describe or explain an enclave of aliens from Omicron-Persei Five. In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision requiring the state […]
Sunday's New York Times carried an extensive editorial on abortion and its political future. The piece, entitled "Frank Talk About Abortion," is anything but frank, because it contains falsehoods, ignores (when it does not casually dismiss) those who don't hold to the Times far-left liberal line. [T]he current debate about so-called partial birth abortion has […]
National Review's Jonah Goldberg has an excellent article on the culture wars. If conservatives have such a lock on the culture these days, as Al Gore, Al Franken, and others keep insisting, why don't we just switch sides? The Left can have Fox News, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, the lavish offices of National […]