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All those of you who count on American Express' Membership Rewards program for all of those free frequent flier miles might want to take a look at this: Customers will no longer earn double rewards for purchases made at grocery stores, drug stores and gas stations, but the credit card giant plans to implement a […]

Some of those voting machine luddites are suing to overturn Rep. Brian Bilbray's 4-point special election win over Francine Busby on the grounds that "there is no way to ensure that the voting machines used by county elections officials were not tampered with by space aliens from the planet Wackolib Six in the Snickers galaxy." […]

The U.N. Security Council unanmiously (what is the Bush administration doing?) approved keeping U.N. observers in the war zone that is southern Lebanon for another month. The U.N. observers do nothing. They were supposed to verify Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago -- and they did. Since then, they were supposed to be monitoring […]

Every two years around election time politicians are faced with the question of whether they want to pass a bill or have an issue in the upcoming election. It's cynical, but that's the way politicians minds work. Along those same lines, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist has come up with a relatively painless solution to the […]

Greg Mitchell, the editor or Editor & Publisher magazine, has a new column out decrying the fact that American newspapers aren't decrying the fact that the United States is supplying a Democratic ally in the Middle East with arms. Simply put: Those are largely American made, supplied, and/or paid for missiles falling on Lebanon today, […]

I recently got some books in the mail, including Bryan Peterson's "Understanding Digital Photography." The book is a pretty good primer for those who've gone out and bought a new digital SLR. However, I would suggest that Peterson's "Understanding Exposure" book is the better buy if you're only going to buy one book. Two notes […]

I probably agree with Peter Beinart once every century, so it's important to note the occasion when it occurs. Yesterday, Beinart laid into House and Senate Democrats for their faux outrage at Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. How, exactly, publicly humiliating Maliki and making him look like an American and Israeli stooge would enhance his […]

Here's a couple of d'oh! moves by Democrats this week. First there was liberal commentator Bill Press' comment that a Lovenstein Institute study had cofirmed that President George W. Bush is the stupidest president in the last century or so. Of course, this is an old Internet hoax -- I was first shown it by […]

The New York Times yesterday decried the bill that passed the Senate the other day prohibiting people from taking minor girls across state lines for abortions without parental permission as "mean." This is not a suprise. Better than 3/4ths of Americans support bills like this, but the Times editorial page is so far out in […]

I was listening to Hugh Hewitt as I made my way into work yesterday and at 30 minutes after the hour the few minutes of local news and traffic came on. Among the items worthy of mention at 3:30 p.m. yesterday: That the latest American Idol runner-up appeared on "The View" and sang her version […]