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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (surprise!) called a halt to the recall election slated for Oct. 7. The most-reversed court in the land has determined that the same voting devices that gave us Gray Davis last year are too flawed to be used to recall the aforementioned Davis. Scott Ott over at Scrappleface.com leads […]

The New York Times editorial page has two corrections in Tuesday's paper. [A]n Op-Ed article on Friday about the playoff hopes of the Cubs and the White Sox incompletely described the life cycle of cicadas in Chicago. While some have appeared after 13 years underground, most emerge after 17 years. An Op-Ed article on Sunday […]

NOW president Kim Gandy has written a letter to The New York Times defending her organization's decision to trivialize itself by endorsing Carol Moseley-Braun for president. If Braun ever started polling in double digits, the media would be forced to stop ignoring her corrupt past. She would then plunge once more into the depths of […]

I'm not talking about home-improvement -- despite the fact that ever since the new owners of the condo above mine took ownership, their bathroom has been leaking into mine. (It's being taken care of -- one way or another.) No, I'm referring to Mark Steyn's latest column on not relying on government when you can […]

Presidential hopeful and AWOL legislator Dick Gephardt appeared on Fox News Sunday and demonstrated unequivocally that he should never set foot anywhere near the White House. In the first segment of the show, Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that the French would like to have a solid date for turning over complete control of […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune has a board on the third floor newsroom where they put photos and brief bios of new employees and interns. One of the Union-Tribune's newest interns is a student at UC San Diego. This individual is majoring in "critical gender roles." No, I don't know what the heck that is, nor […]

Fox News Watch's Eric Burns takes aim at celebrity worship in his latest column, especially the kind committed by James Lipton and his "Inside the Actor's Studio." Burns is correct in his assessment of Lipton: If he had been alive in the Middle Ages, he would have earned his living by licking the boots of […]

Frum on the Mideast "peace process": Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (or so we are again urged to believe) are merely bystanders. Nobody believes this interpretation of events; and yet many, including even the US State Department, feel obliged to continue repeating them. And so they disguise from themselves – and constrain Israel too to […]

Featured in today's column by The New York Times' Paul Krugman: 1. Bush lied 2. Bush lied 3. Bush is politicizing Sept. 11 4. Bush lied Nothing new to see here, though I did find the following of passing interest: And some stunts no longer seem feasible. Maybe it was the pressure of other commitments […]

I'm dumbfounded by what I've been hearing during the debates and in interviews with prominent Democrats following President Bush's Sunday speech requesting $87 billion for the military and the reconstruction of Iraq. More than one Democratic presidential candidate at Tuesday's debate suggested that they would approve the portion of the $87 billion allocated for the […]