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National Review's John O'Sullivan recounts this anecdote that had me laughing: Sorry, but the Basil Fawlty story reminds me of the great opening line of Vincent Mulchrone's Daily Mail report of the German victory over England in an earlier soccer World Cup. I quote from memory: "Yesterday Germany beat this country in our national game […]

First there's this concise explanation of why the NSA surveillance program is legal. Second is this transcript of a roundtable discussion regarding the Muhammed cartoons with Hugh Hewitt, Joe Carter, Michael Medved and Dennis Prager. My position on the issue is most closely aligned with Medved and Prager.

For some reason this story didn't make it online, but as you may know the San Diego Union-Tribune is one of the majority of American papers that have refused to run the controversial Muhammed cartoons. The following is editor Karin Winner's explanation that appeared in Tuesday's paper. Karin Winner, editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, […]

Col. Janis Karpinski, the one-time general whose supervisorial failures were revealed to the world when the infamous Abu Ghraib photos came out, is making the anti-Iraq War rounds peddling a new lie. Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being […]

Well, it didn't take long for The New York Times to demonstrate that their policy of not offending religious believers was a bunch of bolshevik storytelling. Yesterday's Times, in a "Critic's notebook" analysis piece on the Muhammed cartoons controversy followed policy by not using any of the "blasphemous" drawings. Instead, they again ran the "artwork" […]

Judge Joan Weber today sentenced cop-killer Adrian Camacho to death today. You can read two articles here and here. The North County Times article (the first link) is the more complete of the two -- and I encourage you to read it and pray for Jamie Zeppetella. I caught two of the local 11 p.m. […]

Or the closest thing to it. It seems that blogger Catherine Seipp has gotten into a blogospheric tussle with New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston. Apparently Johnston chided Seipp for revealing on her blog and in a National Review Online article that a Times reporter (not Johnston) had contacted her regarding an article on […]

When Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died several years ago, his funeral was not about him, it was about Democrat politics. A genial guy who was liked by even his political opponents was used to paint Republicans as evil. When it came to deciding whether to remember Wellstone or attack Republicans, too often attack Republicans won […]

I didn't watch a whole much of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the NSA surveillance program, but I read several of the wire stories and I've watched a couple of the cable news reports in addition to the usual blogging suspects. Having said that, I think there's a bit […]

John McCain has written a scathing letter to freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama that he's going to remember for a long time. I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you […]