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On Friday, the editor of the Bedford Standard-Times -- the newspaper that was hoaxed by a college student claiming that Homeland Security agents had interviewed him after he tried to check out Mao's "Little Red Book" -- wrote an informative column explaining how it all happened. Two things: The paper continues to hide the identity […]

The Instapundit linked to this piece by Rand Simberg over at Transterrestrial Musings on the possible effects of The New York Times breaking the NSA surveillance program just prior to the 2004 presidential election. But perhaps they had the political acumen to realize that it might backfire on them. Consider--the Democrats were trying (however pathetically), […]

That's what I take from this column by the Union-Tribune's Logan Jenkins. Last week, Sheriff's deputies discovered a dozen pilfered Baby Jesuses strewn in a parking lot. This discovery prompted some good and some bad from Jenkins. Jenkins is correct that this wasn't a religious hate crime, but a childish prank. However, Jenkins takes it […]

On Saturday, the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a story on the founder of Kwanzaa -- a convicted felon -- speaking at a local library. What you won't find anywhere in the puff piece is word of Maulana Karenga's checkered past. Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist […]

Because advancing freedom means more laws and regulations, California lawmakers have been busy and you're gonna need to watch yourself in 2006. My favorite new law is this one: BODY PIERCING - Makes performing body piercing on a minor punishable by a $250 fine, unless the minor's parent gives approval. Of course, this is in […]

My New Year's resolution: Never again allow my condo to reach "Pigsty Level 5." That would be the number of trash bags I just took to the dumpster.

I took Advanced Placement U.S. History in high school, but not from my father. Nope, my instructor was a Gloria Steinem-ish feminist named Mrs. Lee. The course was taught like a college course -- we bought our textbooks and marked them up over the course of the year. One of those book was a pretty […]

This I really love. ABC News finally finds a "Constitutional scholar" who believes that the NSA's surveillance of international communications between al Qaeda agents overseas and people in the United States are illegal. The guy's name is David Cole. (Nope, I'd never heard of him either.) He's certainly no Lawrence Tribe or Cass Sunstein. What's […]

OK, here's another Bandy Canyon picture. I'm hoping to get out on Monday to take some more pictures.

It looks like New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen are going to be spending some time in the inside of a jail cell. Risen and Lichtblau are the two reporters whose bylines were atop the article revealing a code-word National Security Agency surveillance of al Qaeda. Now, Lichtblau and Risen can't be […]