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Capt. Ed rips into this "fact check" of this Fred Thompson statement: "You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn't take you long to realize that our people have shed more blood for other people's liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world.'' -- Fred D. Thompson, […]

Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a Paul Krugman fan. But I repeat myself. It turns out that the nutty, conspiracy-theorist University of Florida student that got tased at Sen. John Kerry's talk is a big Paul Krugman fan, and vice versa.

DeGaulle of Dan Rather. Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the […]

If you haven't read these two articles (here and here) by Michael J. Totten on what he calls the Anbar Awakening. This is the kind of reporting the mainstream media should be doing, but isn't. Ramadi has changed so drastically from the terrorist-infested pit that it was as recently as April 2007 that I could […]

I'm not sure it's worth an ESPY, but wow. He should go out and buy a lottery ticket.

According to Janes Defence Weekly, via the Jerusalem Post, comes word that Iran and Syria are now short some officers, engineers and scientists. Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian […]

A federal judge in San Francisco of all places has tossed out state Attorney General Jerry "Space Command" Brown's lawsuit (originially filed by his predecessor) that sought to sue auto manufacturers for global warming. But District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown's environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he […]

Idris Leppla is a student at Columbia University. Idris Leppla is a moron. Soon that pride turned to anger and fear: after my mom dropped him off at Annapolis, she came home with an acute sense of grief. The only thing she could talk about was how to get him out. In addition to missing […]

Newspapers have been trying for the better part of a decade to figure out how to leverage their Web sites into money makers. When I say money makers, I mean with the typical print profit margins of 20 to 30 percent or better. The only newspaper that has been successful at this is the Wall […]

Author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known to fantasy readers as Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series died yesterday. I first started reading Jordan's books in 1990 when I was away at college. It wasn't uncommon for me to pick up a book to read if I wasn't taking some sort of […]