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The San Diego City Council and the municipal employees union have reached a tentative pact. You can read the Union-Tribune's story here. For those of you who are interested in all of the details, here's the e-mail sent by the union's negotiating team. Dear Fellow Professional Members Tentative Agreement Reached Between City Management Team and […]

I was just watching a Bill Schneider report on possible Supreme Court vacancies on CNN's "Inside Politics." Some unidentified (at least, I didn't catch his name) pundit identified Justice John Paul Stevens as a "moderate." If he's a moderate, then there are no liberals on the court. At least conservatives will acknowledge that there are […]

Back in the '90s when they first began dogging the Clinton White House, Judicial Watch was often called a "conservative" or "right wing" group. Then, when Bush came into office, Judicial Watch began pressing the White House to release documents from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In the eyes -- and the news […]

I haven't commented on this column by The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof because I've submitted a letter to the editor regarding it. The Times won't publish the letter if it's appeared anywhere else -- including the Web -- so I'm going to give them a few days to make a decision on publishing it. […]

Via National Review's "The Corner" comes this statement from Sen. Arlen Specter on the Democrats' filibuster and offers of various "deals": In the exchange of offers and counter offers between Sen. Frist, the Majority Leader and Sen. Harry Reid, the Democrat Leader, Democrats have made an offer to avoid a vote on the nuclear/constitutional option […]

If there was any doubt before, it can be set to rest now, The New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman is a socialist. Krugman -- still lacking a Social Security plan of his own -- assails the president for suggesting what amounts to means-testing of the proverbial "safety net." Krugman charges the president for being […]

Sen. Chuck Schumer on "Fox News Sunday" had the following to say when outlining why "democracy" in America is under attack: What's happened is that a number of extreme groups have attacked judges, almost threatened them. For instance, Pat Robertson said judges are worse than terrorists who fly buildings into airplanes... Yes, that quote is […]

If you haven't read it yet, check out Friday's Charles Krauthammer piece.

So, I needed to do a fresh install of Quicktime on my computer. If you go to Apple's Web site and want to install Quicktime for Windows XP or 2000, then the only option that is given to you is to install Quicktime with iTunes. Of course, you can immediately go back and uninstall only […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune, my employer, sent me something in the mail Saturday that no other employer I've ever had ever sent me. I received a one-page document that details my total compensation as an employee of the Copley Press. For the first time I saw how much it cost annually for my health insurance, […]