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I finished reading Prof. Stephen D. Cooper's book "Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate." The book isn't written for popular appeal. At its core, the book is a college textbook on media criticism -- a very good college textbook. However, good textbooks don't necessarily make for something that's going to fly off the […]

Early on I noted that despite their feelings on the legality of the NSA's terrorist surveillance program, legal scholars almost unanimously panned the opinion as heavy on rhetoric and light on the law. I also thought it was worth noting how two of the nation's most respected newspapers thought about the opinion. Demonstrating once again […]

On this week's edition of "Fox News Watch," host Eric Burns closed the program with the bit of news that more Americans could identify the Three Stooges (leaving Curly Joe and Shemp out of the calculation) than could name the three branches of government. Fine. There's a good number of people in America who are […]

An op-ed in yesterday's Hartford Courant by David Medina proved once again that I'm far too sane to get a job as an editorial writer at a newspaper. Medina's article is a call to ban stun guns. Fair enough. That's certainly a position that is debateable and not outside the mainstream of public opinion. I […]

Former President Jimmy Carter gave an interview to German magazine Der Speigel -- and it's apparent that if he isn't senile then he's anti-Semitic at best and a fool at worst. SPIEGEL: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a result of the invasion of […]

It should come as little surprise that the ACLU found a district judge -- a Carter appointee -- to ignore previous rulings on Presidential commander-in-chief powers and find the NSA wiretapping program illegal. [PDF of the decision here.] Eugene Volokh over at the Volokh Conspiracy has some more analysis of the ruling, and he doesn't […]

And I don't think it's the commandant of the Marine Corps. A few things that too many newspapers don't seem to get yet. The Internet is the greatest contribution to fact-checking in history. If you get something wrong and refuse to fess up, then the blogosphere allows your faux pas to get wide circulation -- […]

Today we're going to point and laugh at Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Obama, like many on the left, is all for having people drive more fuel efficient cars -- of course, "senators" are not "people" -- they're better than people. So at a town hall meeting the other night, Obama encouraged people to buy hybrid […]

I've commented before on the anti-Christian undercurrents at too many of the nation's universities. Well, here's news from the University of Wisconsin refusing to recognize -- or derecognizing previously recognized -- Christian groups in defiance of federal law. Apparently, the administrators at Wisconsin are being advised on this issue by the Judicial Equality Foundation. Blogger […]

The coverage of Colorado's redistricting pales in comparison to the attention given to the mid-decade redistricting that occurred in Texas. Unlike in the Texas case, Democrats didn't flee the state in order to deny a quorum in the legislature. Also, because Colorado is a smaller state, fewer House seats were at issue. Keeping those facts […]