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It's very rare that I read self-published books. The main reason is that when you even hear about a self-published book, it's usually because you know the author -- Barnes & Noble and other brick-and-mortar stores just don't have the shelf space to dedicate to books that are more an exercise in ego for the […]

There's another thoughtful article on the local case I mentioned earlier this week about a student who wore an "Homosexuality is Shameful" T-Shirt to school the day after a Gay/Lesbian sponsored "Day of Silence." The piece by Dale Carpenter makes the argument that current law, the Tinker case dealing with Vietnam-era anti-war protests, is bad […]

Yesterday the senior Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, Alan Mollohan of W. Va., resigned from the panel amid controversy over his behavior on House Appropriations Committee. The Wall Street Journal reported two weeks ago that Mollohan steered millions of dollars to nonprofit groups in his district _ with much of the money going to […]

The source for The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the CIA's secret prisons for terrorists in Europe has been fired, and probably will be spending some time in federal prison. According the the New York Times, the traitor is Mary O. McCarthy, a Kerry supporter who was appointed to her position as senior director […]

Los Angeles Times reporter/blogger Michael Hiltzik's blog has been "suspended." Apparently that's the blogospheric equivalent of being given a time-out. The scandal has also made The Washington Post. Patterico, in the wake of his impressive sleuthing has expressed concern that the Times might throw the baby out with the bathwater and end their blogging experiment. […]

The good news is the decision came down from the Ninth Circuit -- the most overturned appeals court in the nation. The bad news is Thursday's decision in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District has the effect of silencing religious speech. If you're interested in reading the legal opinions, the majority opinion […]

I just caught Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano peddling his book "Constitution in Exile" on the TV. Let me just say that I'm a little unimpressed with his thesis. Napolitano complained that once the government claims power in the name of national security, it never gives it back and that each time it […]

Royal Phillips Electronics has filed a patent on a TV that would allow broadcasters to "lock" your TV when a commercial comes on -- no channel surfing for you! Philips acknowledged, however, the anti-channel-changing technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if […]

Patrick Frey over at Patterico's Pontifications has exposed Los Angeles Times columnist/blogger Michael Hiltzik as a dishonest, conniving ... journalist. You see, Patterico has pretty solid evidence that Hiltzik has been pretending to be other people on the 'net to both praise himself and to attack others. I encourage you to read Patterico's piece, because […]

Courtesy of OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto, we have this hilarious story of a couple of Greenpeace enviro-wackos trying to make a point about global warming. Two U.S. explorers plan to start a four-month summer expedition to the North Pole next month to gather information on the habitat of an animal they believe could be the first […]