When the New York Times first exposed the NSA's terrorist surveillance program it was a day or two later that President Bush publicly confirmed the existence of the program and his approval of the program. I was working that day and saw the headline on the San Diego Union-Tribune's front page story on that issue […]
I often read the letters to the New York Times editorial page not necessarily for what they say, but too see how disparate the ideological balance is on the page. I'd love to know if the Times overwhelmingly receives letters from the left/liberal end of the spectrum or if the mix is a little more […]
Monday's New York Times has an interesting op-ed piece by MIT political science professor Barry Posen. Normally I would find Posen's analysis pretty astute and convincing, however I can't come to that conclusion in this case. As for aggression, the fear is that Iran could rely on a diffuse threat of nuclear escalation to deter […]
You often have to point out to Democrats that elections have consequences. There's a Republican president and a GOP-controlled Senate, therefore you're going to get conservative judges -- that's all there is to it. The Palestinians who voted the terrorist group Hamas into power also need to realize this basic fact, and they shouldn't be […]
Over the weekend, 15 people were killed in Nigeria and another 11 in Libya as the engineered violence in response to the rather tame Muhammed cartoons continued to claim lives. In a case of bad timing, my paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, published an incredibly lame justification for not having published any of the Danish […]
It's days like today that you've got to be thankful for the utter incompetence of Florida voters. Had more of them been able to actually cast the vote they meant to cast for Vice President Al Gore, we would've had this nutcase in charge of our response to terrorism. Al Gore told a mainly Saudi […]
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 […]
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 […]
The movie based on the heroes of United Flight 93 is slated for release on April 28. You can check out the trailer here. The trailer doesn't show you a whole lot of the film, instead focusing more on dialogue and sound effects. It has a greater emotional impact than it would if they'd shown […]
Despite what the mainstream media and America-hating zealots have been peddling for the past few years, Saddam Hussein was a terror supporter, and we're not just talking about his checks to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes has been badgering the Bush administration (something he shouldn't have had to do) […]