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The New York Times isn't putting its editorials behind its TimesSelect wall of silence -- maybe it should. An editorial in today's Times urges readers to "connect the dots" on global warming and its influence on hurricanes. Hurricanes derive their strength from warm ocean waters. Ocean temperatures have been rising over the last 100 years, […]

The New York Times yesterday published an article assailing John Roberts over a memo that he wrote criticizing the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times v. Sullivan. There was just one problem with the article -- Roberts didn't write the memo that was the basis of the article, Bruce Fein did. An article yesterday […]

Idiots in a West Yorkshire, Great Britain, hospital have attempted to ban people from cooing at babies. A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection. A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice […]

The French have arrested nine terror suspects who were allegedly planning to blow up the Paris subway. Terror suspects detained in France had been eyeing up the Parisian metro network, an airport and the headquarters of the domestic intelligence service as possible targets, sources close to the investigation said. The suspicions were based on an […]

I've gotten some flak for referring to last weekend's protests in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the country as being populated by the loony left. Of course, the critics aren't members of the loony left and don't go to the protests. I've said it before: there are honest liberals who disagree with the war in […]

The New York Times has decided that it is time for a modified, limited rowback on the Geraldo libel. The TV Watch column on Sept. 5 discussed broadcast journalists' undisguised outrage at the failings of Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts. It said reporters had helped stranded victims because no police officers or rescue workers were around, […]

I just got back from seeing "Serenity." Part of Universal's effort to generate buzz for the flick was reaching out to bloggers by offering an advance screening -- apparently they believe that we have some sway with people who read our sites. I came into the theater as a late-to-the-party fan of the TV series. […]

For the record, whenever Geraldo Rivera appears on the TV screen the channel is immediately changed (if it's live TV) or I skip forward until his visage no longer contaminates my screen (if it's TiVo'd). Having said that, the New York Times' libel of Geraldo, and its unwillingness to correct the record, is just one […]

Last week Apple CEO suggested that if record labels started charging more than $0.99 per song on his service and others, it would be indicative of pure greed. Not one to want to prove Jobs wrong, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. fired back. �To have only one price point is not fair to […]

Yesterday Cpl. Tibor Rubin was finally awarded the Medal of Honor for his service during the Korean War. The Mudville Gazette has all the details. On a day when hate-America-firsters are spewing their venom and bile, it's good to see what real heroes look like.