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Fox News� �Special Report with Brit Hume� replayed an exchange between Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) at the beginning of a judiciary committee hearing on Thursday. Hatch was angry. Very angry at the way that Judge Charles Pickering was being treated in the committee. It was good TV at the very […]

OK, updates will come later tonight. Blogger was down for an extended period of time due to upgrade issues. There's some new buttons in this interface and I'll have to figure out how to use them. I wrote an item or two, but they're on the computer at home. I'm at work, so I beg […]

Following in the large footsteps of former Vice President Al Gore, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has been caught telling tall tales. According to an Associated Press story, Reich is claiming to have coined the term "corporate welfare." Tom Pitoniak, associate editor at dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, said "corporate welfare" has been used at least […]

There's another case in the news about the federal government breaching that famed wall of separation between church and state. I caught this on the Associated Press wire. PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The nuns from the School Sisters of St. Francis may have taken a vow of poverty, but that doesn't mean they don't want their […]

The International Red Cross, the Europeans and many on the loony left in this country have been warning the U.S. government if we don't treat al Qaeda prisoners according to the Geneva Convention, then they won't accord our soldiers the convention's protections when they are captured. Let's just ignore the fact that no country who […]

With friends like these: Muslim countries want us to respect them. Well, they should try respecting other people too. The British newspaper The Guardian reports that Saudi Arabia's religion cops have arrested foreign Filipino workers for allegedly practicing Christianity in that country. The revelations come as five British men, detained in connection with anti-western terrorist […]

I always thought National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg's jabs at Alec Baldwin were funny, but I never thought the cracks about Baldwin eating lead paint chips like a teenager eats Doritos were actually true. Baldwin was in Florida today whining about how the state's election reforms just weren't enough. Apparently Baldwin wants a perfect […]

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly had Adel al-Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah, on his show last night. Some of his claims were just laughable on their face. O'Reilly challenged al-Jubeir on the Saudis refusal to let the United States use the air base in Saudi Arabia to launch strikes on Afghanistan. Al-Jubeir […]

Using the vast financial resources of hoystory.com, I was able to take a recent trip to Cuba and I was allowed to interview one of the al Qaeda prisoners at the Camp X-Ray. "What's your name?" I asked. "Abdul Abdullah, but you can call me by my legal name," he said. "What's that?" "Tom Jones." […]

One of the advantages of living on the West Coast is that you can start reading the next day's Washington Post and New York Times at 9 p.m. It's not quite an afternoon paper, but it's close enough. In tomorrow's New York Times, columnist and former Enron hack Paul "Line 47" Krugman assails any move […]