Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, polls showed that many Democrats were actually happy that George W. Bush was president. They believed that in time of war Gore certainly wasn't the man for the job. Former President Jimmy Carter's op-ed in today's New York Times offers evidence that maybe the anti-Gore sentiment wasn't personal. There's […]
The New York Times editorial page leans left. Despite CBS Dan Rather's contention that it's middle of the road, it can't really hide its bias when they run two pieces of inane gibberish by Al Gore and Jimmy Carter -- on the same day! I'm too exhausted to properly dissect them now. Come back for […]
Cartoonist Paul Conrad is challenging Ted Rall for the title of America's Dumbest Cartoonist. Conrad's latest cartoon (found here) likens the Israelis to Osama bin Laden's terrorists. An airliner with the Star of David on its tail heads toward the towers of two mosques. The lack of moral direction that it takes to suggest that […]
Today, New York Times columnist Paul "Line 47" Krugman tries his hand at rhyming and an honest analysis of President Bush's tax policy. He succeeds at one of them. [T[he Bush administration really, really dislikes sharing information with Congress. Dick Cheney refuses to release the records of his energy task force; Tom Ridge won't testify […]
Yesterday the House passed legislation that would make the tax cut passed last year permanent. The marriage penalty and the estate tax are among the items that will die a permanent death, and will not be resurrected in 2011. Democrats sought to tie the vote to what they view as their most potent electoral issue, […]
Fox News last night has a short item on Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) who led the pledge of allegiance on the House floor yesterday had a problem saying the words "under God." Not that she mangled them. She just didn't say it. According to Brit Hume, her staff said that she had to swallow, and it […]
Even criminals need to pay attention in English class. A former Los Angeles Times employee surrendered to Los Angeles police Monday in connection with the theft of $64,236 from the newspaper's Sept. 11 Disaster Relief Fund. Michael Childress, 35, a temporary employee hired to process mail and donations to the fund, is scheduled for arraignment […]
Numerous surveys of the media have shown that journalists are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. Despite this, journalists swear on a stack of Ms. magazines that they don't let their personal biases enter into their reporting. Like former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg, I think they actually do believe this. The problem is, it's not true. Today's object […]
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd has published bits of "e-males" (isn't she clever?) from men who, unlike most of Dowd's friends, are not intimidated by successful intelligent women. It's probably the best column published under her byline in a long time, mainly because she writes so little of it. Wright Salisbury's missive brought a […]
The Washington Post has an article in today's paper on how some of the post-Sept. 11 detainees were treated in prison. My heart isn't breaking, and if the Post's reporting describes the worst that they suffered, well, They should be glad they were in America, and not any other country in the world. Inside the […]