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Today's New York Times letters to the editor: 17 total letters. 1 politically neutral. 5 anti-Bush. 11 non-political.

Courtesy of Steve Verdon comes this post by the Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum. Drum complains that the blogosphere isn't self-correcting -- at least on the right -- because most of the top conservative blogs do not have comments available -- singling out Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin and National Review's "The Corner" for […]

I finally got around to watching Sen. John Kerry's appearance on Sunday's "Meet the Press." I think NBC's decision to interview Kerry and not some Middle East policy expert on the day of the Iraqi elections was odd. You can find a transcript of the interview here. Lots of bloggers have flogged Kerry over many […]

About two years ago, I applied for a job opening at the Union-Tribune. The position I applied for was that of letters editor. I made it pretty far along in the process, having two pretty extensive interviews with the then-editor-in-chief of Copley Newspapers and former communications director for President Richard Nixon, Herb Klein. The entire […]

It appears to be commonplace in other countries that voters are marked somehow as having voted. The image the past few days has been of Iraqi voters with their ink-stained fingers. It appears to me as though we should undertake similar measures here in the United States. Marking a voter isn't a cure-all for solving […]

As I flipped channels yesterday and watched the cable channels' coverage of the historic elections in Iraq, I was impressed by the amount of coverage devoted to the story. Many of the cable channels were running their weekday programming schedule. A time or two I worried that I had slept completely through Sunday and had […]

So, 300 channels and there's nothing on, but I did catch bits of a couple of shows that I would like to share. You see, right now they're bouncing around in my head killing brain cells and will continue to do so until I can let it out to torture someone else. First, some channel […]

I haven't been beating the drum of outrage at these opinion columnists who, it was discovered, had been getting money to do public relations for the government. I think it's a waste of taxpayer funds that are better spent on, well, just about anything. As to the pundits, these payments/government contracts should've been disclosed. Disclose […]

Today is the day Iraqis go to the polls to participate in free elections for the first time in decades. It's still early in Iraq, but it appears as though the terrorists' promise to fill the streets with blood has been largely empty. Check out Steven Vincent's "In the Red Zone" blog for some thoughts […]

... but I would sign it too.