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Salon's Eric Boehlert takes the occasion of the announcement of New York Times columnist William Safire's retirement to take him to task for decades of mistakes and inaccuracies. I'm not going to defend Safire, he's certainly made errors and not corrected them, but Boehlert's outrage is conspicuously constrained to Safire. The problem Boehlert describes is […]

Are you a Republican? Then you are dumb, dumb, dumb -- and greedy. News reports last week showing that Republicans are a miniscule minority in the ivory towers of academia, unsurprisingly, has brought out the smarter-than-thou Democrats. To the Editor: Re "Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find" (news article, Nov. 18): Would it be surprising […]

"3 million Jewish victims archived."

I didn't approve of judge Roy Moore's move to put a Ten Commandments monument in an Alabama courthouse -- he was just trying to pick a fight. However, the repeated lawsuits by bitter, disgruntled atheists to remove anything that anyone could consider Christian from the public square is just as bad. Unfortunately, while Judge Moore […]

It shouldn't come as any surprise that The New York Times editorial page writers use language in such a way that it becomes meaningless. Case in point is this editorial in last week's paper on a proposed cloning ban at the U.N. Seeing as how it is the U.N., any measure would be mainly meaningless […]

CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney echoes what all of CBS News' critics have been saying ever since Dan Rather's bogus Bush National Guard documents story ran. "I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said. "That's what happened to this thing of Dan […]

Who were the biggest winners last night? ABC and the NFL. With a hockey game breaking out at the Pacers/Pistons game, the dropped towel from Monday Night Football will be completely forgotten. ESPN showed the brawl over and over again on SportsCenter and it's certainly the biggest, ugliest fight I've ever seen in professional sports. […]

Sometimes the United Nations is even worse than useless. Today, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted what the news media has been reporting for a year -- that U.N. "peacekeepers" in the Congo have been sexually abusing women and children they were supposed to protect.

The Washington Post has decided to follow The New York Times' lead and stop running "cartoonist" Ted Rall's disgusting drawings. Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to […]

This quote from yesterday's dedication ceremony for the Clinton Presidential Library just begs for a snarky comment. The library "is like my husband: it's open, it's expansive, it's welcoming, it's filled with life." – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Please feel free to make use of the comments.