Yesterday, the Army awarded Silver Stars to 10 Green Berets for heroism during a firefight in Afghanistan. A harrowing, nearly seven-hour battle unfolded on that mountainside in Afghanistan's Nuristan province on April 6, as Walton, his team and a few dozen Afghan commandos they had trained took fire from all directions. Outnumbered, the Green Berets […]
In a report out today, the Associated Press makes an assertion. President-elect Barack Obama, relatively young and inexperienced, is facing a rapidly growing list of monumental challenges as he prepares to take the reins of a nation in turmoil. I'd really appreciate it if someone with access to the Lexis/Nexis database would do a search […]
It would surprise most Americans to know that Greeley, Colo., founded as a temperance colony, was such a decadent place that it inspired modern anti-American terrorism. It's surprising, but that's the starting point for Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer-Prize winning book which draws a line from Sayyid Qutb time spent in the post-WWII Greeley to the rise […]
If perception is reality, then Republicans have a lot of work to do to to overcome the belief that they are more corrupt than their Democratic counterparts. Case in point is this bit from CNN's Wolf Blitzer: WOLF BLITZER: You know, most of the scandals -- most of the political scandals, Karen, in recent years, […]
The Tribune Company, owners of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times among others, has filed for bankruptcy. For those interested in the potential sale of the San Diego Union-Tribune (that would be me), it appears as though Sam Zell is out of the running. The New York Times announced today that it would be […]
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller extends the term of public editor Clark Hoyt for another year.
Poking around Editor & Publisher for the previous post, I came across editor Greg Mitchell's latest column defending the early media narrative that Barack Obama was breaking new ground. The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study asserting that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "small" donors has gained wide, often […]
Editor & Publisher is "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry -- it says so right on the home page. I remember first reading the trade journal in the early '90s as a j-school student in college and remember nothing particularly politically-oriented about it. The most-read portion of it was the classifieds -- a portion of […]
Radio talk show host Dennis Prager mentioned this editorial in the Los Angeles Times as evidence that editorial writers don't inhabit the same reality as the rest of us -- and he's right. Yet [the United Nations is] also utterly indispensable. Warts and all, it is the world's only meaningful bulwark against nuclear proliferation, human-rights […]
President-elect Barack Obama isn't even in office yet and some in the punditocracy are already giving him credit for having won the war in Iraq. The New York Times' Thomas Friedman: In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash from moderate Iraqi Sunnis against Al Qaeda and Iraqi Shiites against pro-Iranian […]