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Here's a couple of things that you should read in order to become a more informed person. First, this piece from Norman Podhoretz on who is really lying about Iraq. Second, this Q&A from Sunday's Union-Tribune with Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom on education in America.

You'd think that, in the wake of big disgraces like Mary Mapes and Jayson Blair and all of the other little disgraces -- like the NBC reporter canoeing through ankle-deep water, that mainstream journalists would be a little more ... chastened when throwing stones at blogs. What separates the Union-Tribune and other mainstream newspapers from […]

A month or two back I pointed out an article about union-hired temporary workers who were working eight-hour days outside in the hot sun of Las Vegas picketing WalMart. The union temps were being paid less than what they would've earned working at WalMart, and the vast majority of the WalMart employees worked inside the […]

1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team.

CNN/The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz had book-peddling fraud Mary Mapes on this morning, and to say that her performance was pathetic may be the understatement of the year. Hopefully, Mapes will now quickly disappear from public view -- I was sick of her a year ago. Mapes was followed by Powerlineblog.com's Scott Johnson and Salon's […]

Al Gore says global warming a greater threat than terrorism. Hey, as long as terrorists aren't destroying carbon dioxide devouring trees they're nothing to worry about.

Don't hold your breath.

Drudge is reporting that DNC Chairman Howard Dean refused to appear alongside his RNC counterpart Ken Mehlman on this morning's "Meet the Press" on NBC. As Drudge points out, such heads-up interviews have been common in the past, with Dean's predecessor doing it five times -- just on "Meet the Press"! Which brings up the […]

I'm a big "Mythbusters" fan and often watch an episode (I've got my DVR set to record them) when I've got 45 minutes to kill. So, I'm watching an episode called "Confederate Rocket" and they're trying to recreate a rumored Civil War-era rocket that reportedly flew about 100 miles. At various stages in their mythbusting, […]

It's been four years. I'm still writing. You're still reading. Keep up the good work.