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An audiotape alleged to have been made by Saddam Hussein denied responsibility for last Friday's bombing in Najaf that killed scores, including a leading Iraqi cleric. This is curious because it's probably the first time a terrorism supporter has released a statement denying responsibility. Also, when I first heard about it, I thought: "Of course, […]

Taranto's back from vacation -- finally!

The following letter appeared in Monday's San Diego Union-Tribune. Unfortunately, due to the less-than-stellar integration between the print side and the electronic side, it's not available online. I am currently deployed in northern Iraq, and would like to express my thanks to everyone who supports us and what we are fighting for. For those, however, […]

Tom Clancy is one of America's best storytellers. The insurance salesman turned author has, over the past two decades, created a world of intrigue where ordinary men do extraordinary things. Each of Clancy's novels have used the current globalpolitical situation as a backdrop. Through the Cold War, the uncertainty of the fragmentation of the Soviet […]

The Wall Street Journal published a couple of good articles over the holiday weekend. The first is a look at someone who knows all about scandals and cover-ups -- the junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton. The second is a look at the looming split within the Episcopal Church between those who follow the […]

For the Krugman curious, Donald Luskin has a plethora of interesting stuff. Start here and work your way down.

Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has refused to denounce the racist group MEChA, instead identfying it as one that helps develop leaders. Earlier, Bustamante was questioned pointedly about his membership as a college student in the Chicano activist organization MEChA, or Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. The group's strident rhetoric urged retaking the American Southwest, among […]

The latest Paul Krugman diatribe isn't anything we haven't heard before. Krugman has three basic columns: the economy's bad and it's Bush's fault; our foreign policy is bad and it's Bush's fault, and; I stubbed my toe and it's Bush's fault. I understand that Krugman doesn't feel bound by the most basic journalistic principle: accuracy. […]

Yesterday's Washington Post had an article by Howard Kurtz on "comedian" Al Franken and his new book. The article is interesting, and sure ensure that conservatives ignore Franken's book. Anecdotes about Franken ambushing Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot and Franken offering to fight National Review's Rich Lowry in a parking garage demonstrate […]

The American Journalism Review has a good article on paying your dues in journalism. The article came out in March 2003, but for those aspiring journalists it accurately describes the way a journalism career usually works. It also makes clear that the Jayson Blairs of the world -- their first job is as a reporter […]