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On Thursday, a "protest wall" was torched at UC Irvine. The wall was designed to represent the security fence being built between Israel and the West Bank to keep terrorist bombers from murdering innocents oppress Palestinians. The council for Arab terrorist apology (CAIR) has denounced the conflagration as a "hate crime." Now, I'm probably getting […]

From the Washington Post, a heartbreaking account of the life, and death of Edward Alan Brudno.

The Knight Foundation has come out with its annual newsroom skin-color diversity report. The report for The San Diego Union-Tribune, my employer, can be found here. The Union-Tribune doesn't score particularly well, according to the Knight requirements. In 2004, 16.9 percent of the newsroom staff was non-white, while 45.5 percent of the paper's circulation area […]

Lt. Smash is doing the major media's job -- and doing it better.

The Democrat-dominated California Assembly passed a bill yesterday containing the most restrictive abortion rules in the nation. The proposed law would prohibit any abortion for girls under the age of 14. Girls age 14-17 would be allowed to have an abortion only with the approval of a doctor. Yes, this sounds like something Republicans might […]

I've long been opposed to the so-called "zero-tolerance" rules instituted at most of this nation's public schools because it takes common sense out of the equation. Today's case in point comes from Fort Worth, Texas: A wooden baseball bat, no longer than 8 inches and visible through a car window, spurred Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School […]

I'm having a hard time nailing down Sen. John Kerry on the issues. He's militantly pro-abortion, and yet he told reporters that he would consider appointing a pro-life judge, but only if it didn't tilt the Supreme Court into overturning Roe v. Wade. Kerry said he has voted in favor of "any number of judges […]

The idea that free trade with despotic regimes -- bringing to their people more wealth, democratic ideas and a glimpse of what freedom is -- will somehow, eventually, undermine the ruling elite is an idea embraced by many on both sides of the political spectrum. There's just one problem: There's little evidence that it actually […]

Or not enough of the right (and by that I mean correct, not politically right) single men? The always interesting Robert Musil has some analysis on the situation today, capped by the following anecdote. Recently, over dinner, a slender, beautiful, young, intelligent. educated, securities sales woman employed by one of the big New York investment […]

They don't mix. NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is a 50 percent probability that the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season will have above-normal activity, the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) said in its outlook. Sigh.