The media has gotten a ton of criticism (much of it deserved) for injecting the prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into everything from theater reviews to food columns. The Union-Tribune's Gina Lubrano steps up and acknowledges that, at least in one case, the reference was inappropriate. After seeing the story, White, who was […]
Defending Kerry
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John Kerry, the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, struck the right tone in his statement on Ronald Reagan's death. Others, at Daily Kos, Democratic Underground and (predictably) Ted Rall have not been so...human. I actually called up the Michael Medved show earlier today as Medved was asking for people to come up with similarities between […]
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Harry Potter, Year 3
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Just got back from watching the latest Harry Potter movie. Excellent special effects. It follows the plot of the book pretty closely. Acting is good. Well worth the money. One slightly annoying thing. Readers of the books would know, but is not explained in the movie is exactly who Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are. […]
Well said by Steyn
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Steyn has a short piece on Ronald Reagan, and this encounter sums up the 40th president aptly: One man who understood was Yakob Ravin, a Ukrainian émigré who in the summer of 1997 happened to be strolling with his grandson in Armand Hammer Park near Reagan’s California home. They happened to see the former President, […]
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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For those of you in San Diego, I encourage you to pick up a copy of today's Union-Tribune -- there's a special commemorative section on Reagan and a long retrospective. Ronald Reagan was the first president that I was really conscious of; I was 8-years-old when he took office. A good friend of mine in […]
The loony left remembers Ronald Reagan
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I'm not sure I'll ever watch another Lethal Weapon movie again. Castro-loving actor/activist Danny Glover said the following today at an anti-war rally in Los Angeles. We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to […]
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I'm betting on Al-Jazeera
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But if these losers are American, then the fourth estate has much more serious things to worry about than Jayson Blair.
Physician heal thyself
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As tens of thousands are systematically killed in a racist pogrom in Sudan, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (of which Sudan is a member) takes aim at the United States. GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Commission gave the U.S.-led coalition a mixed review Friday on its performance in Iraq, lauding it for ending […]
Stem Cell research update
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Ramesh Ponnuru has an excellent article clearing up some of the false claims made by proponents of embryonic-stem-cell research.
