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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 […]

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From the family that brought you that famous line comes a "clarification" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's apparently conciliatory remarks on the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent remarks on abortion, in which she expressed support for parental notification laws, have provoked concern among some advocates of abortion rights, with […]

News channels have a kind of sick love affair with flashy, eye-catching graphics that convey little tidbits of information. However, sometimes it's better to just leave it alone. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

I just wanted to share with all of you what I just printed out on my printer: Hello, I live in the condo below you. I work nights. I would really appreciate it if you would not play your stereo so loud that I can easily sing along to the lyrics so early in the […]