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Pet Peeve: I'm really annoyed by the latest Lexus commercial in which two parents present a spoiled little brat with a "new CD player" which happens to be contained in a brand new Lexus. Call me biased -- but no 16 year old should be getting a Lexus.

Also in Wednesday's Washington Post is a letter from San Diegan Marjorie Cohn on President Bush's decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty. (Sen. Joe Biden also has an op-ed piece on the same subject that I'll talk about later.) Unfortunately, Ms. Cohn falls into the trap that so many have fallen into when arguing […]

Michael Kelly has an excellent column in Wednesday's Washington Post. Some things are objectively right and some things are objectively wrong. Yes, there are gray areas in life, but there is no gray area around Sept. 11. Give Kelly's column a look-see.

Well, got home and got a chance to check out today's White House press briefing on C-SPAN. Turns out my skepticism in Sen. Tom Daschle's "we need more paperwork" excuse was on target. According to White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, Eugene Scalia was nominated April 30. His Senate hearing was Oct. 2. The last request […]

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (R-S.D), on yesterday's "This Week" on ABC, addressed the nomination of Eugene Scalia to be solicitor for the Labor Department. Scalia is the son of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whom many blame for awarding the presidency to George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore. Scalia's nomination was reported out […]

A story in today's San Diego Union-Tribune contains the latest "Stupid Quote of the Day." The story is about sewage problems at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base. According to environmentalists the base's five treatment plants have tallied more than 14,000 discharge and monitoring violations over the past two years. Now, this isn't good. It needs […]

For those of you who might have missed it, one of the great prizes for modern art was awarded earlier this week to "minimalist artist" Martin Creed. Creed's award-winning piece: "The Lights Going On and Off" is an empty, white room where the lights go on and off every five seconds. Creed was awarded $30,000 […]

You know liberals are ticked off when Time's Margaret Carlson gets bloodthirsty. On CNN's "Capitol Gang" on Saturday, the liberal magazine columnist advocated capturing, not killing Osama bin Laden, so "we can put bamboo shoots underneath his fingernails every day for the rest of his life."

More on the America traitor, John Walker Lindh. Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby (the only conservative on the staff of the paper) takes to task Walker's parents for what their son became. Newsweek calls it ''truly perplexing'' that John Lindh, who ''grew up in possibly the most liberal, tolerant place in America ... was drawn […]

The New York Times reviews former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News" in today's paper. The review isn't really anything surprising, coming from the Times. I'll likely read Goldberg's book myself, even if I have to wait for the paperback edition, but some of the […]