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Today's Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial on the war against the Bush administration being waged from within the intelligence community. However, the part that really hit me was the brief synopsis of how the media has been involved in reporting the warfare: CIA Director Porter Goss is now facing press criticism for trying […]

If you're interested you can find a 6-month-old estimation of what you're paying in gas taxes here. [PDF document] I'll spoil the surprise for Californians -- third-highest in the nation at 60 cents per gallon. Of course, as the price of gasoline goes up so does that number, because California charges sales tax on top […]

This prank was made famous by Comedy Central's "The Man Show" many years ago, but a couple of high school students decided to try it at a school recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. What is it? They got a bunch of female high school students to sign a petition to end […]

Last week Rep Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) stepped down from his position as co-chairman of the House Ethics Committee, this week it's looking more and more that Randy "Duke" Cunningham might not be the only one using the earmark process for his own personal gain. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported [subscription required] that Mollohan bought […]

My brother-in-law, the pastor, occasionally gets a kick out quoting "Biblical scholar" Elaine Pagels to me. He knows that she's got her theology all out of whack, but Pagels and I have a history. You see, in one of my upper-division English courses at Cal Poly, I made a mistake. I unwittingly got a professor […]

The WTA -- the professional women's tennis association -- is complaining because the women still aren't getting paid as much as the men. The WTA Tour, which has lobbied for equal pay for years, expressed disappointment that Wimbledon "continues to promote inequality in pay across the board between men and women." "In the 21st century, […]

The media, and some states' laws, have a decades-old practice of not identifying victims of rape, but are free to publish the names and photos of those accused of rape. The logic behind this policy was to encourage rape victims to discount the stigma associated with the crime and come forward and report it. Hand-in-hand […]

NPR's Juan Williams has an effect on Brit Hume. Last week's revelation that a CIA officer had been fired after apparently leaking information (a charge the individual reportedly denies) on secret CIA prisons in Europe to a Washington Post reporter (leading to a Pulitzer Prize) has provided Democrats with an opportunity to once again demonstrate […]

Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine and he's an evil lefty. Not all lefties are evil, but Mitchell is. Greg Mitchell is the Great Evil Lefty. Down with the Great Evil Lefty. Kill the Great Evil Lefty. Chop off Greg Mitchell's head! Pretty wacky, huh? At this point I'd like to […]

Journalist/blogger/media critic Jay Rosen was on the Hugh Hewitt show last week and he said something that I think is spot-on regarding how the media portrays itself to the public: HH: Let me give you an alternative resolution to this, Jay Rosen. The paper should just admit that their journalists are polemicists who carry their […]