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There's plenty of whining about President Bush's "vacation" at his Texas ranch -- according to Fox News' Chris Wallace it will be 33 days long. I confess, it's far more vacation time than I get -- or most other Americans get. Of course, when I go on vacation, I'm not designing pages for the Union-Tribune. […]

Sixty years ago this weekend, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. I must confess that I've little sympathy for the ignorant peace protesters who come out every year to demand unilateral nuclear disarmament. Sixty years after the fact, too many just don't get it, and the ones that do -- […]

If you're a journalist attempting to assuage readers' concerns about your ethics, you shouldn't do that by flaunting your stupidity. The Los Angeles Times' Dana Parsons ignores this basic rule. Have I ever illegally recorded a phone conversation? I can unequivocally deny that, because I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to rig a tape […]

From today's New York Times editorial page (boy, I'm gonna miss it when they start charging): Some Caveats on Job Growth The 207,000 new jobs created in July are a boon to the people who landed them. But American workers are not yet in a position of strength. [. .] because a Democrat is not […]

If the rules allowed it, SoundPolitics.com's Stefan Sharkansky would receive the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Sharkansky is no Hemingway, but he alone has done more to expose the disaster that is the King County (Washington) elections department than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times combined. In addition to doing extensive research on voterless ballots, […]

Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, released another dull videotape yesterday -- and showed that he's qualified to write on economics for The New York Times op-ed page. Our message to you is clear and unequivocal:You will not be saved unless you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and our resources [Fox News […]

If this is accurate -- and Drudge is famously hit-or-miss on these sorts of things -- then I don't think I'll ever need anything more ever again to prove that the New York Times' political coverage is indiscernable from a propaganda rag. Seriously, checking out Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' adopted children is part of […]

There's really little I enjoy more than sitting down in a coffee shop or Panera Bread store, pulling out my laptop and surfing the Web while I eat lunch. If you want to get me in your restaurant, give me free Wi-Fi. Continental Airlines understands this, which is why it offers free Wi-Fi access to […]

Quoted on Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume" in a report on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court we have our Idiot of the day: Debra Ness of the National Partnership for Women. The right of women to vote, the right to privacy, all of these are rights that Americans hold […]

Via XRLQ comes this gem from Judge Ellar "I'm an arrogant moron who doesn't listen" Duff of Madison County, Missouri. An Alton woman embroiled in a divorce case spent more than four hours in jail for contempt of court after she refused a Madison County's judge's order to return a handgun to her ex-husband, a […]