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A federal judge ruled yesterday that the basic statistics about sports and the players' names are not subject to copyright. Medler barred the baseball players union and MLB.com, the league's Internet arm that operates its own fantasy league, from interfering with CBC. "The undisputed facts establish that the names and playing records of (MLB) players […]

Former Clinton special counsel Lanny Davis finally discovers that there are nasty liberals out there. I came to believe that we liberals couldn't possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us. And in recent years--with the […]

I missed this bit of moral cluelessness in Monday's New York Times while suffering from the stomach bug that bit me, but it should come as no surprise that the Times editorialists are sympathetic to the aims of terrorists. Troops must also be lined up for the international security force. The idea is to draw […]

The best thing that can be said about President Jimmy Carter's administration is that it was only four years long. The best thing about Carter's ex-presidency is his work with Habitat for Humanity. Just about everything Carter has done since he was booted out of the Oval Office in 1981 on the international stage has […]

Kathleen Parker had an informative column in Sunday's Union-Tribune Insight section -- the headline says it all: "Christians have differing world views." Among paranoiacs who see a Jerry Falwell or a John Hagee in every burning bush, U.S. support for Israel isn't about protecting the only healthy democracy in the Middle East, but about advancing […]

If you haven't been reading the blogs over the weekend, you missed a serious blow-up at the Reuters news agency. (Michelle Malkin has a helpful, link-filled post here.) One of Reuters' freelance photographers in Lebanon submitted at least two photos to the news agency, which then sent them out over the wires, that were Photoshopped […]

Local congressman Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Tom Davis (R) raised a ruckus last week over the possibility that the Interior Department may have covered-up some incompetence (or something more serious?) that resulted in billions of dollars in profits for oil companies. Here's the AP article. A Bloomberg version is here. From the Bloomberg version: The […]

I'd apologize for the lack of blogging over the past few days, but you get what you pay for. I've been feeling seriously miserable with some sort of bug -- stomach cramps, fever, nausea -- and I blame global warming ... or Mexican food.

John Temple, the editor of the Rocky Mountain News, following the lead of your favorite blogger (I mean ME!), has ripped into Editor & Publisher. If you read Greg Mitchell's columns on Iraq and now the Israel/Hezbollah conflict it's clear why Editor & Publisher has become increasingly irrelevant. Mitchell, the editor of the trade magazine […]

There's a good portion of the population of California -- and the nation -- that is opposed to issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens. These people have been called neocons, anti-immigrant, minutemen and, as of yesterday, "crackers." So, who's tossing the racist slur around today? If you guessed a Democrat, you'd be right. This time […]