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I avoided commenting on the Bill Bennett dust-up over the past few days because most of what I would've written had been stated elsewhere. See here, here and here. That last link highlights our hypocrite of the week NPR/Fox News' Juan Williams. While condemning Bennett for making the true, but offensive, observation that aborting all […]

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I went and saw Serenity again last night. Apparently not enough of you went out to see it, and it only picked up about $10 million. So, in an effort to get more of you out to the theaters, I thought you might want to check out this: Yes, each and every one of them […]

Well, duh. To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars I'm sorry, but I thought that was the whole point. And I suspect that the jurors who suggested the prison term also thought that was the whole point. Just a few decades ago, a life sentence was often a misnomer, a way to suggest […]

It seems that even in Great Britain the school system is failing those who want to learn the English language, but very good at teaching political correctness. NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West […]

Well, I suppose that salmon are low in fat, but this is ridiculous. So, you landed a big king salmon this summer? It can't compare to the colossal king Alaska Airlines plans to land this morning in Anchorage. The Seattle-based carrier has painted nearly the full length of a Boeing 737-400 passenger jet as a […]

New York Times editorial page editor Gail Collins publishes a letter from the editor in today's paper restating her committment to running corrections when errors are made on the editorial page. We correct all errors, from heart-stoppingly egregious to sublimely insignificant, because we believe that The Times should take its reputation for accuracy seriously. It's […]

This story brought to mind something my grandmother used to say: "People in hell want ice water." The implication, of course, is that they're not gonna get it.

That's how John Podhoretz describes New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from prison yesterday after she agreed to testify before the grand jury in the nadagate affair. I hope some day somebody writes all this down, because the whole story is unbelievable. Miller never writes a story about Plamegate, but insists she must keep […]

The Los Angeles Times has a couple of articles on the San Diego Union-Tribune and publisher David Copley. I'm not going to comment on any of this (because I have a mortgage payment) except to say that I've worked at the Union-Tribune for five years next month -- and I've never seen Helen or David […]