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Nearly a month ago I noted a piece by National Review's media reporter Stephen Spruiell that gave the other side of the story to a sensationalistic column by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Susan Paynter. Paynter's column basically claimed that Marine recruiters had attempted to Shanghai a Seattle-area teen into the Corps -- a distortion of reality […]

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is in jail for refusing to reveal the name of one of her sources to a grand jury. This is as it should be. The grand jury has every right to demand the name from her; she has every right to refuse to give it. It's really too bad […]

This is the most bizarre "editor's note" I've seen in years. The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the […]

The Union-Tribune obituary is here. Stockdale, the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, was forced to wear heavy, viselike leg irons for two years. He was tortured and spent four years in solitary confinement. To avoid being used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face with a mahogany stool. After the death of […]

Iowahawk channels terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, and thwack's the Kos Kidz. [Beware: Salty language]

Fox Butterfield is a New York Times reporter who periodically has people point at him and laugh. Why? Because of articles like this one. The number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 2.1 percent last year, even as violent crime and property crime fell, according to a study by the Justice Department released […]

Sometime next week President Bush will nominate someone to take Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. In the meantime, the chattering classes will guess about whom the president will choose. Black, white or hispanic? Man or woman? Moderate or conservative? It would be surprising if President Bush nominates someone who is less than […]

The United Church of Christ -- a "mainline" church that no one goes to anymore -- has decided to toss out Leviticus, at least the first chapter of Romans and sundry other pesky verses. The resolution was adopted in the face of efforts to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. It was both a […]

GOP congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a former Top Gun pilot and fighter ace was downed today due to media attention. Embattled Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham canceled his public appearances at community events scheduled for today, his spokesman said. Cunningham, R-Rancho Santa Fe, was to attend a pancake breakfast here this morning, among other holiday events. […]

For your reading pleasure. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and […]