That's the title of The Washington Post's excellent five-part series. Part one appeared in today's paper. You can find part two here. These articles are a pretty damning indictment of former Enron CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling and one of his top aides Andrew Fastow. They should be on their way to jail for the fraud […]
A friend of mine sent me a short e-mail with a link to the Fox News story on how the South African version of Sesame Street plans to introduce a muppet who is HIV+ when the fall season starts up. My first response was: ho-hum. If Sesame Street plays it like it says it will, […]
The news is a little old, but when the economy tanked and the California government was faced with a large budget deficit, Gov. Gray Davis announced a hiring freeze. It turned out the freeze wasn't exactly real, and since then the state has hired about 9,000 additional workers. According to a report in the Sacramento […]
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof attacks Islam for its brutality towards women, support of terrorism and dearth of freedom and democracy. But American Christians are just as bad. [T]he Islamic world represses women, spawns terrorism, is prone to war, resists democracy and has contributed remarkably few great scientists or writers to modern civilization. So […]
I'm beginning to think that my own paper's James Goldsborough may provide more fodder than Krugman ever has. In today's paper, Goldsborough tags President Bush as a new-isolationist for not blindly following the advice of elite opinion-makers on the other side of the pond. If the Bush administration had deliberately set out to drive America's […]
I missed this last week when I read Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen the riot act over her anti-man-all-women-are-victims-and-men-should-just-go-away-forever essay, but Stanley Kurtz wrote a great essay taking Quindlen and the New York Times' Maureen Dowd to task and suggesting a new holiday. Here, I think, we have the germ of an idea for a simply […]
Well, I generally don't check out MSNBC.com much, mainly because its layout is highly annoying, but also because every time I look at their "Opinion" page, the lead story is always from some whiny liberal. Anyway, I've decided I should visit more often, if only because the New York Times' Paul "Line 47" Krugman needs […]
Liberals cheered when former president Ronald Reagan was shot -- literally. You can find the story here. It's sad that so many of these same people think that the death penalty for murderers is barbaric. Killing a Republican is OK, but executing a mass-murderer after a fair trial and lengthy appeals process is not. Where […]
Well, I watched San Diego State's mens basketball team play No. 1-ranked Duke this afternoon. The Aztecs played very well, losing 92-79 -- that's 13 points for the mathematically challenged. Quite a good performance for an unranked team going into Cameron Indoor Stadium. My question is, who's the idiot headline writer over at espn.com? "After […]
Helen Thomas, the grand dame of the White House press corps, takes time out this week to plead for the traitor John Walker Lindh's life. Perhaps in mulling over Walker's life, he (President Bush) will try to remember when he was a 20-year-old. True, he did not defiantly challenge the system as so many young […]