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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to spend today in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee defending President Bush's foreign surveillance program. Democrats and selected Republicans on the committee get the opportunity to once again make fools out of themselves on C-SPAN. Gonzales has once again taken to the nation's editorial pages -- this time […]

I must confess that I'm not the least bit surprised to find that the New York Times-owned Boston Globe only calls for the public to respect religious beliefs as long as those beliefs and believers aren't Christian. Eugene Volokh points out (first link) that when the topic was Andres Serrano's famous "artwork" "Piss Christ," or […]

Editor & Publisher is running an article on the controversial cartoons below and it contains this little gem from Associated Press executive editor Jill Carroll: Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor, said the news cooperative has long withheld images it deemed offensive, such as photos and video of beheadings. "We have a very longstanding policy of […]

I published 3 of the forbidden Jyllands-Posten cartoons earlier today. Since then I have read a couple of dissenting views of people I respect who argue that the publishing (and re-publishing) the cartoons is merely an effort to goad Muslims into acting on their base instincts. Hugh Hewitt likens the cartoons below to a Tom […]

One of the cornerstones of Western civilization is freedom of speech and of the press. A free press won't stay that way for long if it cannot criticize the world's second-largest religion. So, as a sign of solidarity with Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper. Here are a few of the blasphemous Mohammed cartoons. Michelle Malkin notes that […]

Just over one year ago, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave a speech which sparked outrage among women's groups. In the speech, Summers suggested that one possibility why there are few women science and engineering professors at the nation's elite schools may be due to innate differences between men and women. Maybe, Summers suggested, that […]

Or maybe Ted "I left my car in the drink ... along with my date" Kennedy just gets his demagoguery wrong. The day after his elevation to the high court, Justice Samuel Alito sided with the court's liberal block to block the execution of a convicted murderer. For those of you wary of Souter Part […]

Today's New York Times has an article on some of the controversy surrounding the movie "End of the Spear." As I've written before, I think the film is a really good, moving film that, though religious, is not preachy. Shortly after I published my review of the film, I got an e-mail from a reader […]

Either our education system is dreadfully bad, or John Kerry likes to pull figures out of thin air.

A brite is a newspaper term for a short, happy feature story. This one should bring a smile to your face.