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Check out William Shawcross' op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times. It's hard to think of a more graphic illustration of the horror the U.S.-led coalition is fighting in Iraq than the mass murder on Sept. 26, in which terrorists disguised as policemen (a New York Times headline called these butchers "fighters") burst into a […]

As a relatively new homeowner who actually gets money back from the government now that Hoystory World Headquarters isn't a rental, you can take my mortgage interest deduction when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Just as the nation's housing boom appears to be slowing, debate is starting among policymakers about reining in […]

Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a member of the Judicial Council which rules on cases of misconduct by judges, demonstrates why too many judges can't be trusted with power. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about Judge Kozinski, I'm talking about district court Judge Manuel Real first and […]

I must confess that I wholeheartedly agree with John Weidner's assessment of the remarks of certain Democrats. Can you imagine, can you even imagine Republicans instantly denouncing President Roosevelt for speaking defiance to the Nazis or the Japanese? "It was foolish for the president to brag openly about winning the Battle of Midway. His 'bring […]

So, I sent an e-mail to Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times requesting corrections earlier this week. My e-mail: Ms. Collins, in light of your Sunday "Letter from the editor" reflecting your committment to accuracy on the editorial pages, I thought I would bring one error -- committed twice -- to […]

I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about the president's nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. I'm certainly not excited by her nomination, probably because Democrats aren't going ape. Miers, if confirmed, may turn out to be a good justice. (Yes, by "good" I mean "votes the way I […]

Today's New York Times finally runs an article on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitee's illegal accesssing of Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit report, more than two weeks after the story first broke. But the article is really a case study on spin -- how to provide all the facts, but mislead and obsfucate in […]

Earlier this week I wrote far too much about Bill Bennett's reductio ad absurdum that it can be dangerous to take a flyer on the possibility that we wouldn't have a Social Security crisis if all of those 30+ million aborted future workers were around to fund grandma's Social Security check. Bennett illustrated the danger […]

The Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz, an excellent journalist, wrote an article yesterday about the paper's daily internal review of the paper's coverage. One thing that's caught some readers' eyes is this bit (but you should read the entire thing): On Thursday, Book World Editor Marie Arana, noting that she had been "a Young […]

Over at The New York Times, America's paper of record is again sitting on a politically inconvenient story. A couple of months ago took the Times several weeks to finally report on the liberal talk radio network Air America taking money from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx. Now, the Times […]