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Well, it looks as though we're now just one more short step from getting justice in the Duke lacrosse "rape" case: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has asked the North Carolina Attorney General for a special prosecutor to replace him. For some good analysis, I encourage you to check out K.C. Johnson's site: Durham-in-Wonderland. There's […]

Seriously, how in the h-e-double-hockeysticks did this guy get elected? From today's Senate hearing interrogation of Condoleezza Rice. Webb: I personally think it would be a bold act for George W. Bush to get on an airplane and go to Tehran in the same manner that President Nixon did. If the "Death to America" stuff […]

This should be the lead story on all of the television networks tonight, but it won't be. President Bush Presents Medal of Honor to Corporal Jason Dunham The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor a President can bestow. The Medal is given for gallantry in the face of an enemy attack that […]

It appears we've finally gotten to the bottom of the mysterious case of the Associated Press' Iraqi Police Capt. Jamail Hussein. In short, the AP foisted off a pseudonym on the public without informing anyone, in violation of basic journalistic standards. Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted.

Fourteen Carter Center advisers have quit over Jimmy's book. *UPDATE* Here is the text of the letter courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Letters Sent by Carter Board Members January 11, 2007 3:35 p.m. Below, the text of two letters sent Thursday, Jan. 11, by members of the Carter Center Board of Councilors. Dear fellow […]

Former President Carter has lost another longtime ally due to his false, defamatory and disgusting book. You can find the entire letter from Melvin Konner, a doctor and professor at Emory University here. The whole thing is devastating, but I wanted to highlight this bit: I will call your attention to a sentence on p. […]

President Bush Wednesday night laid out his plans for a troop "surge" in Iraq as part of an effort root out terrorists in Baghdad. (I say terrorists and not "insurgents" because the primary target nowadays of the violence is Iraqi civilians, not American "occupying forces.") It's obvious that mistakes have been made in pacifying Iraq. […]

Alec Baldwin, a mediocre actor who I last enjoyed seeing in (whichever one he dies grotesquely in), has written an "insightful" piece over at the freak show that is the Huffington Post. All around us are signs of global climate change. And this administration's response is to send in more troops. If you don't think […]

It's stuff like this that convinces me that I'm much too intelligent to ever become an editorial writer. From the Chicago Tribune: No one theory explains why crime rates have declined in Illinois and around the country since the early 1990s. A decline in drug and alcohol abuse has been a welcome contributor. Community policing […]

I must confess that I never really knew his name, though I saw it just about every day. Iwao Takamoto, creator of my favorite childhood television show, "Scooby Doo, Where are you?" has died.