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Columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, got some heat from the American left when he suggested that former Vice President Al Gore was, in his clinical opinion, "nuts." Another medical doctor has added his considered opinion in a letter to the editor in the October 2004 edition of The Atlantic magazine on President George W. Bush's […]

Last month, the people of Venezuela went to the polls to vote on whether or not to recall their strong-arm, Castro-loving dictator Hugo Chavez. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens had signed petitions to bring the issue to a vote -- and then a massive fraud occurred. Exit polls had the recall effort succeeding by […]

As families in Russia mourn the deaths of more than 300 men, women and children -- victims of Muslim terrorists -- a Syrian-born Muslim "cleric" living in Britain says that the "tactic" is acceptable. An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by […]

As I read the "old media" Web sites -- newspapers, broadcast networks, wire services -- I'm increasingly angered and dismayed by onesidedness, lies and double standards. First, there was last Friday's initial AP report on a Bush speech where the president wished former President Bill Clinton a speedy recovery from open heart surgery. The AP […]

You expect this sort of thing from the fever swamps of Democratic Underground and the like, but newspaper editors need to learn to just say "no." As I watched Tuesday night's network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old […]

Former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich has a particularly vile column out. Will it be the three, or is it four or five, drunken driving arrests that Bush and Cheney, the two most powerful men in the world, managed to rack up? (Bush's Texas record has been sealed. Now why would that be? Who seals […]

It appears the Russian school hostage crisis is coming to an end -- with explosions and gunfire. No word yet on how many innocents are dead or wounded.

While I'm going around questioning the timing of certain events vis a vis other certain events, I'd like to question the timing of President Bush's acceptance speech Thursday night which was surely designed to distract attention from John Kerry's midnight madness.

I didn't win the Watcher of Weasels non-council post of the week. That's the bad news. The good news is that I got more votes than Michelle Malkin. The other bad news is so did just about everyone else.

Last month, the story of a high school teacher who went to see the president at a campaign stop made a some waves in the blogosphere. You see, Kathryn Mead was wearing a John Kerry sticker, but was dismayed by the fact that that would keep her from attending a Bush campaign event. "I have […]