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Christopher Hitchens has a great article in Slate on the fallout from the Valerie Plame leak investigation. As most of us have long suspected, the man who told Novak about Valerie Plame was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department and, with his boss, an assiduous underminer of the president's war policy. (His […]

The Senate race in Pennsylvania may be the first indication that a change is in store for American politics. Bob Casey Jr., the state's treasurer and son of one of the few prominent pro-life Democrats in recent decades, is running against conservative GOP firebrand Rick Santorum. When the race started, Casey held a comfortable lead […]

I periodically check out some of the video game blogs. Why? Because I play video games. I don't blog a lot about video games, because I don't play video games that much. Anyway, Kotaku featured [beware of vulgarities] an interesting story on a World of Warcraft message board by a guy who was responsible for […]

It was obvious before they ever flew the guy out of Bangkok on the taxpayer's dime that John Mark Karr had nothing to do with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Karr had claimed that he drugged the girl, yet no drugs were found in her system. Karr's relatives said that he was more than a […]

I carry no brief for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. I think he is like far too many politicians (the majority of the San Diego City Council in recent years included) who just go-along to get along and don't take their responsibilities seriously. Having said that, last night's "60 Minutes" broadcast included a bit that […]

As every election nears, pollsters often ask what are the most pressing issues facing the nation. The list usually contains five or six issues that get a substantial response. This year I'm sure the list will include: Iraq, terrorism, the economy, immigration, medical costs, Social Security, energy (oil) prices. You can probably come up with […]

Hopefully, by the time you got up this Sunday morning, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig will be free. In the meantime, they've converted to Islam. Earlier in the day a video was released by the kidnappers showing the two prisoners in good health. During the recording, the journalists claim that they […]

I've written repeatedly that the Democratic Party is at best a little antagonistic toward religious believers. At worst, the Democrats are too often seen as downright hostile and unserious. During the 2004 election, presidential hopeful Howard Dean tried to reach out to religious believers by sharing the fact that his favorite New Testament book was […]

And more importantly, who is teaching it. I check out JournalismJobs.com periodically just to see if my dream job is available. I don't usually click on the teaching jobs, because I don't have a M.A. and don't much care to get one -- let alone a Ph.D. Honestly, advanced degrees aren't very useful in the […]

Dale Franks over at QandO has an excellent piece on global warming and public policy. My problem with the idea of making policy decisions based on what we know now about global warming is that, before you can solve a problem, the dimensions of the problem have to be defined, then a clear-eyed look at […]