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Courtesy of Best of the Web today comes further proof that the media's fact-checking isn't about determining the truth. During Tuesday's debate, John McCain repeated an assertion he had made before: In Lebanon, I stood up to President Reagan, my hero, and said, if we send Marines in there, how can we possibly beneficially affect […]

I'm still feeling miserable, but here's today's evidence that the MSM doesn't know squat -- and is apparently proud of it. How did Newsweek convince Gov. Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle for its cover? Simple. It didn't. Instead, it used an archive (fancy speak for old) stock photo of her taken back in […]

I didn't get the chance to watch last night's debate and I think I'm coming down with a bug of some sort, so comments and analysis will have to wait until I feel better.

The senator from Missouri is a jerk. McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host. "I spit on this before I put it […]

If there was one question I would like asked of Barack Obama tonight that 1) might actually get asked and 2) might actually get answered it would be this: Sen. Obama, if you were to become president and, upon taking office, discover that your plan for higher taxes on the rich would be insufficient to […]

CNN finally got around to looking into the relationship. What resulted was a report that shows the two have a much longer and deeper relationship than Obama's made it out to be. The question now is will Obama directly answer in-depth questions on the issue? Will Tom Brokaw ask? Don't hold your breath.

National Review's Byron York makes a point that I've made previously and then takes it a step farther: The fact-checkers aren't neutral. It’s fair to say that John McCain has taken more heat from the fact-checkers than has Barack Obama, so much so that one prominent analyst has declared that “lies are more central” to […]

I caught the late matinee showing of David Zucker's latest film "An American Carol" this afternoon. I'm pretty sure that I was the youngest person in the audience by at least a decade. In a case of not knowing your audience, the last trailer before the movie started was for Oliver Stone's upcoming anti-Bush movie […]

It took me about four days to get through "Brisingr," the latest volume in young Christopher Paolini's "Inheritance" quadrilogy. Paolini made a splash several years ago with the first volume, "Eragon," written when he was only 16. Now Paolini is 24 and his writing has improved. The first book was well done -- likely a […]

I made a brief foray into talk radio yesterday. Coming home from running a couple of errands I made the mistake of flipping radio stations and I came across a local live talk show railing against taxes -- specifically, two local measures in East County. One is a proposed increase in the sales tax, the […]