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In the hilarious Neil Simon movie "Murder by Death" Eileen Brennan's character goes over a brief biography of Lionel Twain, played by Truman Capote, the host of their mystery weekend. One humorous fact in Twain's biography was that he was once picked up in El Paso, Texas, "for trying to smuggle a truckload of rich, […]

Some would say that the controversy over this student broadcast story on John Edwards' campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, N.C., is evidence that his campaign is run by amateurs. Sorry, not even amateurs are this stupid. It's a safe bet that no one from the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism school was covering the event in person: […]

Armed Liberal over at WindsofChange.net has an excellent fisking of The New Republic's explanation of why it has been less than forthcoming the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair.

You thought it would never happen, but here's some kudos for former President Bill Clinton for standing up to the 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Bill Clinton addressed a crowd in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a fundraiser for his wife's campaign on Tuesday. Clinton's 50-minute speech, which started about an hour behind schedule, was derailed briefly by several […]

Maybe you'll recall back in the 2004 election that at least one newspaper Web site raised the ire of some on the right when people discovered that the cute picture of a little girl holding a pro-Bush sign while perched on her fathers' back had a derogatory file name. Most users never saw it, unless […]

Jim Abrams, Associated Press reporter, lead paragraph of his story: The House's top Democratic tax writer outlined a $1 trillion plan Thursday to eliminate the alternative minimum tax and ease the tax burdens of most people by asking the rich and some companies to pay more. Asking? So, they don't have to pay it if […]

The Drudge Report yesterday briefly posted a transcript of a conversation between fabulist Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp and editors at The New Republic [Transcript: Pt. 1, Pt. 2 -- PDF format] along with documents from the Army's official investigation. [PDF format] Drudge ended up pulling it down, but not before the information was out, and […]

Over at PoynterOnline, Distinguished Fellow Butch Ward has an article up about newsroom safety. No, it's not a warning against sticking your fingers into a spinning press. Several years ago during a leadership seminar at Poynter, one of the participants approached me during a break. "Can I tell you something about myself?" she asked. "Sure," […]

I know you're thinking I've got the story wrong, but Judge Leslie Southwick was filibustered yesterday on his way to finally winning Senate confirmation to a seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. You can find a list of the 35 senators who filibustered Southwick here. Yes, you're a smarty. You know that it […]

It's still smoky here, and I haven't gotten a lot in the way of sleep for the past couple of days. I've been going to bed at night with the TV on and the volume down low hoping that if they say something about evacuating the Palomar Medical Center that I'll hear it subconsciously and […]