Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter Saturday afternoon. The victim, 78-year-old Harry Whittington, is apparently going to be OK. Comedians are going to have a field day with this, but I think that this was just a cynical effort to up Cheney's poll numbers. Whittington is a lawyer -- shooting lawyers always […]
Time magazine has published a photo of President Bush meeting with disgraced lobbyist and felon Jack Abramoff. As of today, Time has not published anything on Abramoff's links to Senate Minority leader Harry Reid. In the photograph Time is touting on its Web site, Abramoff can only be seen as a smudge in the background. […]
When someone toots their own horn, I'm apt to make the crack that I'll head down and grease the front door so I can get their ego through it. Well, grease wouldn't be nearly enough for rap "singer" Kanye West, last seen on this blog posing as Jesus Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone. […]
First there's this concise explanation of why the NSA surveillance program is legal. Second is this transcript of a roundtable discussion regarding the Muhammed cartoons with Hugh Hewitt, Joe Carter, Michael Medved and Dennis Prager. My position on the issue is most closely aligned with Medved and Prager.
Col. Janis Karpinski, the one-time general whose supervisorial failures were revealed to the world when the infamous Abu Ghraib photos came out, is making the anti-Iraq War rounds peddling a new lie. Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being […]
When Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died several years ago, his funeral was not about him, it was about Democrat politics. A genial guy who was liked by even his political opponents was used to paint Republicans as evil. When it came to deciding whether to remember Wellstone or attack Republicans, too often attack Republicans won […]
I didn't watch a whole much of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the NSA surveillance program, but I read several of the wire stories and I've watched a couple of the cable news reports in addition to the usual blogging suspects. Having said that, I think there's a bit […]
John McCain has written a scathing letter to freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama that he's going to remember for a long time. I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you […]
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to spend today in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee defending President Bush's foreign surveillance program. Democrats and selected Republicans on the committee get the opportunity to once again make fools out of themselves on C-SPAN. Gonzales has once again taken to the nation's editorial pages -- this time […]
One of the cornerstones of Western civilization is freedom of speech and of the press. A free press won't stay that way for long if it cannot criticize the world's second-largest religion. So, as a sign of solidarity with Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Here are a few of the blasphemous Mohammed cartoons. Michelle Malkin notes that […]