When New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes a particularly outrageous assertion, it seems to find its way out from behind the TimesSelect curtain and onto the rest of the Internet. On Jan. 30, Krugman made just such an assertion, but to see the claim in a simpler light, check out Donald Luskin's analogy: Try […]
It's a rare day that you get conservative talk show host Bill Bennett and liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz agreeing on just about anything, but there's one subject that can bring even those two together -- criticizing the cowardly American media. What has happened? To put it simply, radical Islamists have won a war of […]
For those of you following the foolishness that is La Mesa Mayor Art Madrid and his threatened lawsuit against a critical constituent, it appears that at least one city councilmember has his head on straight. Councilman Barry Jantz submitted the following letter in the comments to last weekend's initial post on the subject. Feb. 21, […]
Apparently South Dakota's Republicans have been buying into Planned Parenthood/NARAL propaganda and are convinced that with Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is ripe to be overturned (in fairness, the bill got at least one Democrat's support too). How else do you explain the state legislature's decision to pass a […]
Today's New York Times lead editorial takes President Bush and Congress to task for failing to do something about a looming crisis with many private pension plans. Unfortunately, but naturally, the Times fails to offer a plan of its own. One is left wondering how best to fix the problem, and the Times is silent. […]
The case I mentioned last week regarding a judge unilaterally changing California's procedures for administering the death penalty has borne fruit -- now the state can't execute convicted rapist and murderer Michael Morales [PDF Format]. California officials postponed indefinitely the execution of convicted killer Michael Morales on Tuesday after notifying a federal court they could […]
Sunday's Washington Post had a very interesting article on the how the Internet and technology is presenting problems for China's censors and government-controlled media.
There's a big brouhaha on Capitol Hill and in some corners of the blogosphere over the purchase of a British company that currently manages several U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates. Let me begin by saying that the politics of this are undoubtedly bad. Whether or not there is […]
Mark Steyn notes some of the silliness in attempts to compare Dick Cheney's hunting accident to Sen. Edward Kennedy doing in Mary Jo Kopechne. Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's […]
Art Madrid is the Mayor of the San Diego suburb of La Mesa, population 50,000+. It's my hometown and Madrid has been mayor since 1981. It appears that 25 years as mayor has honed Madrid's sense of entitlement and the idea that he's better than the rest of you. The public-comment portion of a city […]