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I've got something for New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to ponder: Maybe it's just you.

I've often said that more left-wing activists are foul-mouthed jackasses than are right-wing activists. Go to any anti-war rally or visit Democratic Underground (aka DUMB, aka the sewer) or visit most lefty blogs and you'll find more f-words than the script of most major Hollywood releases. Today's case in point is columnist Michelle Malkin's hate […]

Steven Vincent, the author of the must-read book on Iraq "In the Red Zone," notices an interesting dichotomy in the media describes people. Once again, the same media phenomenon: take a "nationalist" gunman, put a mask on him and set him in some Spanish speaking country and he becomes a "paramilitary"--or, as Newsweek has it, […]

One of the problems newspapers sometimes encounter is a disconnect with the communities they cover. It's not an uncommon occurrence for any large company, but it can be especially damaging to newspapers who need to tell the stories of a diverse audience. At least once a year at The San Diego Union-Tribune the paper's editor […]

Victoria Toensing and Bruce W. Stanford have a piece in today's Washington Post outlining the law and what is required for having named liar Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent. At the threshold, the agent must truly be covert. Her status as undercover must be classified, and she must have been assigned […]

By way of the Media Research Center, the founding producer of "60 Minutes," Don Hewitt said the following at a Monday morning meeting at CBS: Does anybody really think there wouldn't have been more scrutiny if this had been about John Kerry? Exactly. That's the bias issue in a nutshell.

One of the items that has been the subject of guffaws and charges of "whitewash" on the right side of the blogosphere regarding the independent report on the CBS forged documents fiasco is the "finding" that there was no political bias behind the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report. Both Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were asked […]

I spent most of yesterday with Madeline, the world's greatest niece, so I haven't really had nearly enough time to read through the fake Bush Guard documents report and its various appendicies. However, for the Columbia Journalism Review and other individuals who read only the primary report and note that the report doesn't say the […]

CBS News has finally released its report on the fake Bush National Guard documents story. The complete report, 200+ pages worth and affiliated documents, can be found here. CBS has fired four people, including producer Mary Mapes, but not anchor Dan "you can take it to the bank" Rather. I'll read the report today and […]

Worth your time and perusal: The Wall Street Journal's John Fund has an excellent article on the goings on in Washington State. Highlight: Not all of the voters at the county building are homeless or hard to find. A noted local judge and her husband have been registered at the county building for years. When […]