January 9, 2006
Rule of thumb

One of the adages that I often use as I make an effort to play well with others is: "Don't assume malice when stupidity will explain something." Case in point.

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January 4, 2006
Speaking of stupidity

If you're into self-abuse, check out this brain-dead editorial from the New York Times. To sum up for those of you who would rather not claw your eyes out: Valerie Plame leak bad; leaks that actually harm national security good. Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers. I've found very […]

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January 4, 2006
International surveillance

That's what it is. It's not "domestic spying" no matter how many times the New York Times misuses the term. On Sunday, Times public editor Byron Calame wrote this piece describing how the Times bosses weren't interested in explaining why they held the surveillance story for a year and why they released it when they […]

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January 2, 2006
Hidden gem

On Friday, the editor of the Bedford Standard-Times -- the newspaper that was hoaxed by a college student claiming that Homeland Security agents had interviewed him after he tried to check out Mao's "Little Red Book" -- wrote an informative column explaining how it all happened. Two things: The paper continues to hide the identity […]

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January 1, 2006
The best insightful analysis here first

The Instapundit linked to this piece by Rand Simberg over at Transterrestrial Musings on the possible effects of The New York Times breaking the NSA surveillance program just prior to the 2004 presidential election. But perhaps they had the political acumen to realize that it might backfire on them. Consider--the Democrats were trying (however pathetically), […]

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January 1, 2006
Some religions are more equal than others

That's what I take from this column by the Union-Tribune's Logan Jenkins. Last week, Sheriff's deputies discovered a dozen pilfered Baby Jesuses strewn in a parking lot. This discovery prompted some good and some bad from Jenkins. Jenkins is correct that this wasn't a religious hate crime, but a childish prank. However, Jenkins takes it […]

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January 1, 2006
Covering Kwanzaa

On Saturday, the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a story on the founder of Kwanzaa -- a convicted felon -- speaking at a local library. What you won't find anywhere in the puff piece is word of Maulana Karenga's checkered past. Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist […]

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December 31, 2005
More on suveillance

This I really love. ABC News finally finds a "Constitutional scholar" who believes that the NSA's surveillance of international communications between al Qaeda agents overseas and people in the United States are illegal. The guy's name is David Cole. (Nope, I'd never heard of him either.) He's certainly no Lawrence Tribe or Cass Sunstein. What's […]

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December 31, 2005
Haul 'em off

It looks like New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen are going to be spending some time in the inside of a jail cell. Risen and Lichtblau are the two reporters whose bylines were atop the article revealing a code-word National Security Agency surveillance of al Qaeda. Now, Lichtblau and Risen can't be […]

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December 29, 2005
Those four levels of editors

Shocker! Los Angeles Times reporter doesn't check her source and ends up publishing an April Fools quote as fact on Page A1 of the paper.

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