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You can often find some comedy in the New York Times corrections section, and today is no different. An article and a picture caption yesterday about the funeral of Sgt. Jose Gomez of Queens, who was killed on April 20 in Iraq, referred incorrectly to the Army representative who comforted his mother. She was a […]

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I was walking through the composing area in the newsroom yesterday when I came across this story on one of the Union-Tribune's opinion page headlined: "The Boy Scouts' exclusion policies." Intrigued, I read the story and while the headline may be technically accurate, it doesn't reflect the tone of the column by James J. Kilpatrick, […]

The U.S. Commission has come out with its annual report on International Religious Freedom. [PDF format] It should come as no surprise that "our friends the Saudis" come out rather poorly. I'm understating it. Although the government has publicly taken the position—reiterated again in early 2006—that it permits non-Muslims to worship in private, the guidelines […]

I read Andrew Sullivan's column in this week's Time magazine and came away impressively unimpressed. Sullivan has been beating the gay marriage drum with vigor for the past couple of years and it's started to affect his cognitive abilities. Sullivan claims that "The 'Christian' vote has become shorthand in journalism for the Republican base." I […]

If the mess that President Bill Clinton left this nation's foreign policy and national security in when he left office wasn't obvious on Sept. 11, 2001, then former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is determined to make sure that you remember it -- just not the way she intends. Albright was selling her book, "The […]

If you haven't gotten a chance to read Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket's letter to President Bush, take a gander. [PDF document] When it's not unintentionally funny, it's downright scary. One of my favorite parts was Ahmadinnerjacket's concern for the poor souls in Guantanamo Bay. There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that have not been tried, […]

When Bush administration officials pointed to Saddam Hussein's unmanned aerial vehicle program and warned how dangerous it was and how it could be used by terrorists, "smart people" pooh-poohed the claim. Apparently it only took them a few years to realize the threat. It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers […]

Columnist Mark Steyn has an excellent piece on what will be required to stop the killing in Darfur -- and it's not something that the liberals will like. Here's the lesson of the past three years: The UN kills. In 2003, you'll recall, the US was reviled as a unilateralist cowboy because it and its […]

Today's Union-Tribune has an article on 53-year-old Air Force veteran David Patterson who has sent his medals back to President George W. Bush to protest the war in Iraq. Mailing them via the USPS doesn't have the drama of "pulling a Kerry" -- tossing someone else's medals over the White House fence -- but it's […]