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Paul Krugman is at it again, with a column full of distortions and half-truths. Just trust us, John Ashcroft said, as he demanded that Congress pass the Patriot Act, no questions asked. After two and a half years, during which he arrested and secretly detained more than a thousand people, Mr. Ashcroft has yet to […]

I know it's a day after Mother's Day and all. But I'm watching CNN and some talking head is describing how torture at places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq start out with seemingly minor things and escalate. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo described one of the tortures: ...had them clean toilet bowls out with their bare […]

Lying, hate-filled, arrogant, et cetera, ad infinitum fillmmaker created a brouhaha last week when he accused Disney of violating his First Amendment rights by refusing to distribute his latest film pack of lies. Well, a day later it came out that Moore knew long ago that Disney wouldn't be distributing his film. The entire story […]

It's long since passed that partisan politics stopped at the water's edge. Nowadays partisan politics comes even before the national good (for Republicans to a lesser degree, and to Democrats a greater degree). So, it should come as no surprise that the Kerry 2004 campaign sent out a fund-raising letter highlighting the abuses at the […]

I'm watching NBC's "Meet the Press" and about five minutes in I think I've watched all I can of it. One of the panelists there to talk about the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison in former Democrat presidential hopeful and retired Gen. Wesley Clark. If there's any question whether or not Clark is a […]

A small sidebar in the May edition of Xbox Nation magazine on the upcoming game "Fable" has an interesting anecdote: "I always said you can tell a lot about a person by how he plays Fable," Peter Molyneux says. When Mark MacDonald executive editor for Xbox Nation's sister publication, Electronic Gaming Monthly, opts to aid […]

Is today. Have you called mom? Sent flowers? Don't be a bum.

So I'm looking at books and DVDs when I come across Kenneth Timmerman's "The French Betrayal of America." As is to be expected with any political book, there are lots of 5-star reviews and lots of 1-star reviews. Of course, the 1-star reviews aren't actually of the book, they're of the book's politics. So, as […]

It's so hard to choose just one, but as I was listening to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on the radio today, Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton revealed himself to be the winner. Dayton, a (you guessed it) Democrat, accused Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Richard Myers of contacting CBS News and trying […]