The big news Friday afternoon was that there would be a lottery for Michael Jackson memorial tickets. On a serious note, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced that she would be resigning in a few weeks. The left wing fever swamps are convinced that this is a pre-emptive move because a big embezzlement scandal is coming […]
I spent a couple days up in San Luis Obispo last week interviewing for a job. Because I'm a longtime newspaperman I picked up a copy of the old Telegram-Tribune, now known simply as the Tribune. An editorial in that paper criticized local state Assemblyman Sam Blakeslee -- the new GOP minority leader -- for […]
Remember back when Democrats cared about the "politicization" of the Justice Department after President George W. Bush fired a handful of U.S. attorneys -- people who serve at the president's pleasure? Well, those days are apparently long gone. From The Washington Times comes word that President Barack Obama's political appointees have overruled career Justice Department […]
I haven't commented on last week's dueling speeches between President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney. From a purely political standpoint, the fact that Cheney is the one making these sorts of speeches just goes to show you how shallow the GOP bench is on national security issues. As former federal prosecutor Andrew […]
I've been meaning to get around to writing a rather lengthy treatise on the techniques used on three top al Qaeda terrorists in 2002 and 2003. Unfortunately, exigent circumstances -- the mass layoffs at the Union-Tribune and my need to find a new job -- have conspired against me. In lieu of that well-written and […]
I finally got around to listening to NPR's Intelligence Squared debate on whether Washington or Wall Street is more to blame for the financial crisis. You can follow the link to listen to the debate yourself. What I found particularly amusing was a line by Niall Ferguson who represented the side blaming Washington. His opponents […]
Sen. Arlen Specter's megalomaniacal push to be Senator-for-life from Pennsylvania has taken an ugly turn. If last weekend's odious suggestion that Jack Kemp would still be alive if only Specter's former party had spent more on cancer research wasn't bad enough, it turns out that Specter is perpetrating a scam on people concerned about cancer […]
President Obama is below the Mendoza line on his transparency promise. Of the 11 bills he's signed into law, only one has met his five-day public comment requirement. Anthony Watts takes note of a statement by Rep. Henry Waxman on global warming and carbon emissions. “We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North […]
I've mentioned before that Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site Politifact.com isn't as unbiased as they would have you believe -- they're just not as far to the left as, say, The New York Times. Late last month, Politifact.com determined the House GOP conference was telling a "Pants on fire" lie about President Barack Obama's cap-and-trade proposal's […]
While campaigning Barack Obama vowed that he wouldn't subordinate science to politics like President George W. Bush had. He was lying. Barack Obama too ignores the science when it conflicts with his policy goals, as David Freddoso has noted: But before this ceremony even took place, Obama’s administration had already begun cutting corners on its […]