The New York Post has a brief, but troubling, article on a series of Associated Press wire stories on the efforts of convicted cop-killer Judith Clark to get a new trial. Miller Clark was convicted in the deaths of three police officers during the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack, N.Y. As the story was updated […]
The mainstream media doesn't much reflect America when it comes to a variety of issues. The media is largely secular and even more leftist than the communities they represent -- and that's probably true even in San Francisco. So, it should come as little surprise that Poynter highlighted this letter from former newsman Michael Graham […]
It was perhaps the surest Oscar bet of the past 30 years. That Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" would win the prize for Best Documentary. (Complete list of winners here.) Were the bookies in Vegas even taking bets on that category? Probably not, they're not that stupid. Last Monday, the Union-Tribune's new ombudsman wrote about […]
It's not a Pulitzer, but I'm sure they probably treasure it just as much. Cuba unveiled a marble plaque on Saturday commemorating the interview 50 years ago by New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews that helped build the legend of Fidel Castro, the state news agency Prensa Latina reported. The plaque was placed on the […]
This is several days late -- eons by blogospheric standards -- but quite a few posts are going to be because there are things I want to write about, but was unable to due to evil-flu-bug. Some things will get lost by the wayside, but this was one I didn't want to miss. I was […]
The Washington Post's hateful hitman has decided, with the help of his editors, that maybe he ought to just shut up. William Arkin has posted a second follow-up to his idiotic screed against the U.S. military. I'll save you the burden of reading it. It consists wholly of "woe is me, the evil right-wingers are […]
In the months following 9/11, if you'd have taken a poll of the general public most would have predicted that the United States would not go another five years without a major terrorist attack. For all its mistakes in just about every other aspect of governance -- from out-of-control spending on the domestic front to […]
The Washington Post's William Arkin forgot the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging. After more than 1,000 responses to his original bile -- the majority of which questioned his intelligence, sanity, sincerity and the circumstances of his birth -- Arkin doubled down on stupid. Contrary to the typically inaccurate and […]
The Washington Post's national/homeland security columnist crossed the line Tuesday. William Arkin, who served four years as a military intel guy in Europe in the mid- to late-'70s followed by jobs with every left-wing group from Greenpeace to the National Resources Defense Council and Human Rights Watch, made the mistake of watching an NBC Nightly […]
New York Times public editor Byron Calame -- and the Times as an institution -- are a disgrace. They've taken the "citizen of the world" idea and embraced its anti-Americanism. At the end of Calame's Sunday column, we learn that the Times' chief military correspondent, Michael Gordon, was recently reprimanded for comments he made on […]