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But all the local stations have gone off the aire for the night -- I guess that's a good sign. Check out the San Diego Union-Tribune Web site, it's got a ton of good information. The numbers at this time: At least 11 dead 250,000 acres burned in Southern California 800+ homes destroyed in So. […]

Forget Sunday football. The local TV stations are showing football -- at times -- in a small picture-in-picture. At the time of this writing: 10 12 people dead 4 separate fires 100+ 250+ structures destroyed I-15 is closed Highway 52 is closed from I-15 to Route 125 Several electricity transmission lines down 800+ firefighters fighting […]

Just got finished reading Tucker Carlson's book "Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites." It's a fun book, but at 192 pages in length, it's just not worth the $24.95 list price. Amazon's selling it for $17 and change, but it's probably not worth that much either -- wait for the paperback. (But if you're gonna buy it, […]

When I have a few spare minutes at work, I'll often scan the wire feed coming into the newsroom. This is a raw feed that you really can't access anywhere on the Web. As I was checking out the op-ed wire coming in last evening, I noticed today's editorials from The New York Times had […]

When word came earlier this week that Columbia University professor Mark von Hagen had completed his report on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty with the suggestion that the prize be revoked. For those unfamiliar with him, Duranty parroted Soviet President Josef Stalin's propoganda and covered up a forced famine in the Ukraine that led to […]

GOP Rep. Deborah Pryce was quoted on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume making the following statement while visiting a hospital in Iraq yesterday. The effects of the embargo are widespread. There are fewer nurses trained, there are fewer doctors trained, and the medical equipment shortages obviously a problem in his eyes. So we […]

There was little mention of it on the news last night and only relatively short and buried articles in major newspapers on yesterday's confirmation hearing for D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Janice Rogers Brown. Brown is a liberal Democrat's worst nightmare: a conservative African-American woman. As usual, the best source of information on the […]

It probably wouldn't surprise liberal Democrats if the Republican National Committee scheduled a fundraising tour of Fox News studios. After all, Fox News is obviously a right-wing, pro-GOP network. Being professional journalists, Fox officials would never allow this to happen, but the very idea that Fox is somehow on the GOP's side and would even […]

I'm not a devoted watcher of CNN's Crossfire (or as Henry Hanks often refers to it as: "Colossalfailure"), but right now they have on Hussein Ibish and Jerry Falwell -- talking about "religious extremism." Of course, the religion in question isn't the same one that sends kids into pizzarias to blow themselves and others up. […]

Don Luskin digs up some dirt on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. It appears as though Krugman's Tuesday column isn't the first time he's defended or excused anti-Semitic comments from Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. On a related note: Last Friday, Paul Krugman accused Don Luskin of "stalking" him. Krugman's getting a little paranoid, […]