Ross Douthat had an excellent skewering of law professor and alleged pro-lifer Douglas Kmiec. What I don't understand at all is Kmiec's position, which seems to be that the contemporary Democratic Party, and particularly the candidacy of Barack Obama, offered nearly as much to pro-lifers as the Republican Party does. I am sure that Kmiec […]
Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has completed her analysis of her paper's campaign coverage and the numbers aren't good for those supporting the proposition that the media has been fair and balanced in its coverage of the 2008 presidential contest. The numbers: Stories about the candidates (since Nov. 11, 2007): Obama: 946 McCain: 786 After […]
I just got done watching President-elect Barack Obama's first press conference. A few interesting questions asked, not asked and not answered: CNN's Candy Crowley asked Obama whether anything he learned in the intelligence briefings he's received as president-elect gave him pause or caused him to reconsider positions he'd taken during the general election. Obama declined […]
We'll set aside politics for a moment to note that this is a truly momentous day. The American people, less than 50 years removed from Jim Crow, have elected a mixed race man President of the United States. Let us hope and pray that that fact is not the sum total of his achievements as […]
It looks like America is going to get the kind of government it deserves. Everyone who voted for Obama because he couldn't possibly be as liberal as his history suggests had better start hoping they were right.
This is a more appropriate subject for a book-length treatment, and maybe one day I'll get to the point where I've done enough research and devoted enough thought to the issue I'll write about it more in-depth. For now, in the waning days before Tuesday's election, this article will have to do. Let me start […]
Posting has slowed recently for three reasons. First, there's way too much meaningless horserace reporting going on right now. I don't do horserace posts, so there's not much posting. Second, Fable 2. Third, I'm working on a very long post (aka article) that's already taken me 2+ hours and I figure I'm 1/3 of the […]
New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal spoke to journalism students last week and let's just say that he was consistent in his dishonesty. Let's start with Rosenthal's description of the dust-up earlier this year where the Times refused to run an op-ed by John McCain after affording the same opportunity to Barack Obama. […]
Michael S. Malone -- a longtime journalist -- has a piece up over at Pajamas Media decrying the one-sided media coverage of this presidential campaign. I encourage you to read the entire the entire thing, but I want to highlight a couple bits. But nothing, nothing I’ve seen has matched the media bias on display […]
From Mona Charon comes an appropriate response to the news that former Bush 43 spokesman Scott McClellan is voting for Obama. "By this act he has simultaneously raised the mean IQ of both parties."