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Sam Donaldson apparently just finished reading some nutty lefty blogs when he appeared on the roundtable segment in ABC's "This Week" yesterday. Courtesy of Newsbusters, here's the transcript: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's turn to Republicans. Mitt Romney did give his big speech on faith in America this week. He said very clearly that he would not […]

It's been noted that there is no single word in the English language that is the opposite of misogynist -- or someone who hates women. The functional opposite -- a term for women who hate men -- is "feminist." However, it appears that even that term may be a little constrained. Maybe a better definition […]

After finally putting down "Snow Crash", I quickly turned to the plethora of other books weighing down my bookshelves and picked up "Ysabel" buy Guy Gavriel Kay. Kay is one of my favorite writers. His books are very well written and frankly hard to classify. His works typically fall in the fantasy category in the […]

Yes, I shouldn't expect a guy who landed on his head for most of the first half of his adult life to be able to do calculus, but simple division would be nice. Watching the Chargers vs. Titans this afternoon (I TiVo'd it so as to not have to wake up early.) I wanted to […]

Character, wisdom, experience, judgment, these are all issues that Barack Obama is going to have to assure the Democratic primary voters about -- and, if he manages to halt the inevitability that is Hillary Clinton -- the American public at large. He may not survive such scrutiny if author Bruce Bawer -- who describes himself […]

Huckabee's problem has gotten worse, with this bit from a report on the case in The Los Angeles Times: Huckabee said the DuMond case was already "on my desk" when he became governor in July 1996. He announced that he was considering a commutation. Later, he acknowledged, he wrote a letter to the prisoner saying […]

One of the benefits of rainy days and a week long vacation is the opportunity to do some reading. I just finished Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read a couple of Stephenson's other books, including "Cryptonomicon" and the first book of his behemoth Baroque Cycle, and must say […]

Actor Sean Penn has endorsed flying-saucer boy. On a somewhat related note, the story notes Penn's next film will be "Milk," -- not the kind that does a body good. Penn is slated to star in the Gus Van Sant movie "Milk," the biography of the San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk who, along with Mayor […]

Ross McKitrick has an op-ed piece in Canada's National Post on a serious problem with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. In the first draft of the IPCC report, they simply claimed that, while city data are distorted by urban warming, this does not affect the global averages. They cited two familiar studies […]

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a problem. The problem has a name. The name is Wayne Dumond. Dumond was a convicted rapist and Arkansas resident who had a bad thing happen to him -- before his trial he was released on bond. Two masked men broke into his home and castrated him. He was later […]