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Today's "you gotta be kidding me" moment comes from the Washington editor of Time.com, Ana Marie Cox. I'll have some more fleshed-out thoughts on the matter in the magazine this week, but for now, since many people have asked: No, I won't be going on Imus anymore. Having said that, it's not like they'll be […]

The North Carolina attorney general has dropped all charges against the three wrongly-accused Duke University lacrosse players. Now all that's left is for Mike Nifong to lose his license to practice law, and perhaps spend a few months in the slammer for good measure.

Last week I made a brief mention of ABC News' Web coverage of the recess appointment of Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium. The headline was anything but unbiased: "Bush Swift Boats Belgium, Congress." The subhed wasn't any better: "President Slips Swift Boat Ambassador Past Congress." Rule No. 1 of headline writing: Don't use […]

Former Saudi ambassasdor to the United States, Prince "Big" Turki Al-Faisal, had some interesting things to say today. This bit, I'm going to take as an invitation. “We fear nothing. We are not closed. And we do not cocoon ourselves...Unfortunately, after Sept.11 our traditions, customs, and religion were put under the spotlight,” he said. So, […]

If you don't trust what this journalist has to write about global warming (good instinct to have), then I give you a professor from some university back east.

From the Sunday New York Times editorial on the terror of global warming. Hot and Cold The world’s scientists are telling us with increasing confidence that the costs of doing nothing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions will be far greater than the costs of acting now. These scientists aren't qualified to make that judgement. That […]

Let me start out by saying that radio talker Don Imus is a jerk. Having said that, I'm a little troubled why the National Association of Black Journalists has decided that it's their place to call for his firing. The National Association of Black Journalists, the editor-in-chief of Essence magazine and a New York sports […]

Today is Easter and I wanted to touch on a couple of things this morning. First, I finished Dave Shifflett's book "Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches for Conservative Christianity" a couple of weeks ago. I hate to ruin the ending for everyone, but the answer is in an old Aaron Tippin song: "You've […]

The Federalist Society has an online "debate" over abortion. It's a good read and it will come as no surprise who I think has the better argument.

Officials in Burinlington Township held a mock hostage crisis a couple weeks ago to prepare police and school employees for the worst. “You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that […]