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Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has opined on the qualities of a "loser." According to Reid, a "loser" somehow manages to win two presidential elections, expand his party's majority in the Senate, and expand the reach of democracy worldwide. Reid wishes that his party had "losers" of that quality.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit slapped down the Federal Communications Commission along with the Motion Picture Association of America and the broadcast networks over efforts to institute the "broadcast flag." The broadcast flag could be used to for everything from preventing you from taping your favorite television show so you can […]

Courtesy of Q&O we have this bit of news -- the real "sign of the beast" may be 616 -- not 666.

The New York Times had an intriguing article on the new SAT essay test earlier this week. It turns out that an adding machine can grade the exams -- no brains needed. In the next weeks, Dr. Perelman studied every graded sample SAT essay that the College Board made public. He looked at the 15 […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman continues his articles bashing America's health care system, ignoring his long-ago promise to offer solutions for Social Security. There was a brief flurry of outrage when Congress passed the 2003 Medicare bill. The news media reported on the scandalous vote in the House of Representatives: Republican leaders violated parliamentary […]

The correction of the day at The New York Times: A review of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on Tuesday misstated the location of the site and reversed the order of two acts. The festival is two hours east of Los Angeles, not west. And Weezer preceded Bauhaus. Of course […]

This image hit the Internet yesterday, taken by Michel Yon in Mosul. Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited […]

I missed the milestone earlier this week, but on Monday The New York Times published Paul Krugman's 500th column. The indispensible Lying in Ponds noted that Krugman continues to bat 1.000 -- over the course of 500 columns Krugman has devoted not one to praise of a Republican nor criticism of a Democrat. Krugman would […]

The Camp Pendleton Marine who was captured on videotape shooting an Iraqi militant who was apparently feigning death won't face charges. Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on rebel-held Fallujah, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed the use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile […]

Former New York Times reporter John McCandlish Phillips takes the "elite" commentariat to task over their outrageous rhetoric when it comes to the religious right. The piece is well worth a read, but I'd like to highlight the autobiographical portion of the article. I come at this with an insider/outsider vantage and with real affection […]