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Reading three separate articles on the government response to the tragic tornado that hit Greensburg, Kan., last week it's hard to tell exactly where the truth is. First, The New York Times promotes the standard Democrat take on the story: that the Kansas National Guard, overtaxed by deployments to Iraq, can't handle natural disasters at […]

John Guillebaud should lead by example and kill himself. I don't say that lightly. Guillebaud is a professor emeritus of family planning at University College London. This means that he's old. His most productive years are behind him, but he has a cause. "The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future […]

I must admit to feeling quite a bit of schadenfraude at the news last week that Paris Hilton, most famous for merely being famous, was sentenced to 45 days in jail for driving on a suspended license. The judge prohibited any alternative sentencing -- like house arrest. This caused both Paris and her mother to […]

The House of Representatives is debating a bill that would offer compensation to residents of Guam for the Japanese occupation of World War II. Let me make this clear: the United States House of Representatives is considering whether or not to pay Guamanians for what the Japanese did to them during World War II. What's […]

Whenever I talk about the future of the newspaper business -- and I'm talking about 20-30 years down the line, not next week -- I get that weird "Childhood's End" vibe. For those of you who haven't read the novel, it's basically about a next step in human evolution. It's not really scary, bad or […]

Welcome Instapundit readers! If you're here to see who the heck this guy is who Glenn Reynolds nominated for Public Editor of the New York Times, take a look around and browse the Media category of posts. A couple of Times-related posts that might be of interest: Here I note newspapers that I wouldn't work […]

The best thing that can be said about the new Democrat-run Congress is the fact that it hasn't done much of anything. The mainstream media has finally noticed. In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage […]

I realize that the headline sets a high bar, but this one will be hard to top. Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies. Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous robot, and that didn't keep him from becoming governor. So can "Law & Order" actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson […]

It shouldn't be shocking, but it is. American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday. The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman […]

That doesn't necessarily mean that it is new. It seems every time someone from the mainstream media reads a church newsletter (they don't tend to actually attend the service) and finds a reference to something they didn't know *boom* it's news. Today's illustrative case is this piece by ABC News' Bill Redeker. The evangelical movement […]