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In a tragic setback, it appears that former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark will not be part of Saddam Hussein's defense team. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Dec. 19 that he would represent Saddam, but added it was unlikely an international court would let a foreigner who didn’t speak Arabic and wasn’t trained […]

It looks as though Washington state has a new governor. After two machine recounts failed to give Democrat Christine Gregoire a victory, a statewide hand recount has reportedly allowed Democrats to keep hold of the statehouse. The Democrats quickly claimed victory. It should be noted that when Republican Dino Rossi won the first count by […]

Many of you know that the terrorists in Iraq got off a lucky shot yesterday, killing 22 people in a mess hall. What you won't find in any newspaper is this moving account from an Army chaplain who was there. "Mark" was put on a stretcher and laid along a wall. A small monitor on […]

You'll forgive me if I'm incredibly unimpressed by any claims that "growing the economy" can save a Ponzi scheme -- something that would get anyone other than the government a long time in the pokey. Leading the media ostrich charge is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who took a break from his break to […]

Last week, a Democrat elector in Minnesota had a "senior moment" and mistakenly voted for Sen. John Edwards for president and vice president. If that wasn't bad enough, we find out today that the electors for New York screwed up too, casting their votes for "John L. Kerry." So, it looks like the final electoral […]

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Two weeks ago there was a huge media brouhaha over a national guardsman's question to Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld about a lack of armored Humvees and how the soldiers were digging through junkyards to come up with spare bits of metal to reinforce their humvees. The entire issue also became a subject of journalism ethics […]

The San Diego Chargers clinched the AFC West with today's 21-0 victory over the Cleveland Browns. The AP story, however, contains some hometown bias. San Diego caught a break on a questionable roughing-the-kicker call and Tomlinson scored on a plunge for a 7-0 lead. It wasn't a questionable call in the slightest. The TV commentators […]

A story came over the wire yesterday on a Cornell University survey that shows *horror* that Americans believe Muslims are more likely to be terrorists -- fancy that. Of course, the survey wasn't phrased in quite that way. Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, […]

HonestReporting.com has released its "Dishonest Reporting" awards for 2004. Check it out.