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Union-Tribune reporter Kristen Green has an excellent piece in today's paper on one family's tragedy.

Sunday's Washington Post features an article announcing the creation of a flat tax in Iraq. The article features a colorful history of the flat tax idea and plenty of quotes from U.S.-based flat-tax supporters. The idea also gets a couple of bricks thrown at it, one by an unnamed "Middle East expert," and the other […]

When I first saw this come over the wire, that's what I thought. Arkansas 71, Kentucky 63.

I recently finished reading McKay Jenkins' "The Last Ridge," a history of the Army's famed 10th Mountain Division. Anyone interested in military history or WWII will enjoy this book and earn a new appreciation of some of the men who fought in the mountains of Italy. While historians such as Stephen E. Ambrose have written […]

The Weekly Standard's Jonathan V. Last has an excellent article on the film "Shattered Glass" and its whitewash of the newsroom atmosphere that allowed fiction-writer Stephen Glass' lies to continually make their way into print. Good editors look at the case of Stephen Glass and think, "There but by the grace of God." A smart […]

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch writes that the media, pundits and Bush-haters are convinced, for a variety of reasons, that the economy can't be getting better. Now, I'm not suggesting "irrational exuberance" again. First of all, it's not warranted (yet), and giddiness about the economy didn't really help last time. And I'm also not […]

The Associated Press is reporting that a helicopter spotted the flames that would become known as the Cedar Fire and called for water drops that could have extinguished or hindered the spread of the fire in those initial hours, but the request was nixed because the call came minutes after state safety regulations barred flights. […]

It's not really gloating, but I would like to point out to all of the Mac fanatics that every operating system has its problems.

Economic numbers are much better than expected, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman cautions that this growth rate cannot be sustained. There's really little doubt that the economy cannot sustain an astronomic 7.2 percent quarterly growth in the GDP. So Krugman's not really going out on a limb, but there's also an admission in […]

On Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" a couple of weeks ago our favorite New York Times columnist Paul Krugman accused Don Luskin of being a "stalker." Luskin went on a week later and asked for a formal apology. Of course, that's not gonna happen. Well, Luskin's first salvo over the "stalker" slander has apparently hit […]