Daschle Wrong on Health Care
From David Hogberg: The Missoulian reports on a visit by former Senator Tom Daschle to Missoula: Daschle had come to town as part of his "Naked Truth" campaign to raise awareness about America's health care crisis. And what is that "naked truth"? Let's destroy the myths," he said. It's a ...
Where Do We Go From Here? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
There are many black Americans today who yearn for a more complete connection with their African ancestry. Many believe this link is necessary to complete their cultural identity. For some, this effort goes no further than wearing African attire. For others, it means performing a great deal of serious research ...
The Folly and Tragedy of Section 8, by Mychal Massie
While traveling through a part of my community dominated by "Section 8" government-subsidized housing, I came across a group of seemingly out-of-place college students. Approaching them, I discovered they were performing community service by picking up trash in front of the once well-maintained row houses that were converted into low-income ...
Michigan Voters Quit Quotas, by Deneen Moore
Government often discriminates by basing hiring practices, the awarding of contracts and college admissions on racial criteria. Given an opportunity to put a stop to it, Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) ballot referendum. The MCRI, also known as Proposal 2, "amend[s] the state constitution to ...
Hutchinson Down About Emerging Black GOP Majority, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
It's no secret that the relationship between black Americans and the Republican Party is rocky. Despite the Party's history of helping end slavery and passing civil rights legislation, the GOP's standing among blacks has fallen dramatically over the past 40 years. At the same time, the Democratic Party - thanks ...
“The Thing I Am Most Proud of In My Life is Having Served in Iraq”
Many of our long-time blog readers recall the 2004 blog entry "A Soldier Assures Us: Our Progress is Amazing," by my old friend Joe Roche, then on active duty with the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division in Baghdad. For those who don't recall or weren't readers back then, Joe's essay ...
Continuing the Health Care Overview
David Hogberg now has his second part of his two-part series examining the major health care reform proposals introduced by Democrats over the past Congress online at the American Specator. This time, David takes at look at Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark's proposal to expand Medicare to all Americans ...
Halloween History and Traditions
Halloween's history and traditions are covered in an interesting essay in the Lighthouse Patriot Journal blog. Some things I learned I hadn't known: The transatlantic migration of almost two million Irish during the Irish Potato Famine in the mis-1800s played a key role in bringing the Halloween holiday to Americas.In ...
On Confidential Sources
I happened to be reading some of the contemporaneous news coverage of the censure of the late Rep. Gerry Studds, and noticed this passage in a July 21, 1983 New York Times article, "House Censures Crane and Studds for Sexual Relations with Pages," by Steve Roberts: Some lawmakers who supported ...
Footnoting the News: A Response
In response to blogger/newspaper editor Mark Tapscott's take on my idea that online versions of MSM articles (news, features, editorials, etc.) should have footnotes: 1) Mark says: "...reporting assertions of the "most right-thinking people are liberals on this issue" sort would likely continue unless the regimen included all assertions subject ...
Major Health Care Legislation Overview
Writing for the American Spectator, our David Hogberg is examining the major health care legislation introduced by Democrats during this Congressional session. David's first article in a two-part series examines Senator Russ Feingold's "State-Based Health Care Reform Act." ...
NJ’s Ex-Governor Says He Would Marry
From Breitbart.com: Former Governor James McGreevey, who resigned after acknowledging a gay affair, said he would marry his male partner if New Jersey's state legislature adopts same-sex state marriage.'Marriage would offer the ability to bless our relationship in a committed way,' McGreevey, 49, told The New York Times." "Committed" way? ...
Al Gore Becomes a Foreign Lobbyist
At least, according to the Irish Times, in a report in tomorrow's editions: The British government has hired former U.S. Vice President Al Gore as a lobbyist to convince the American public that action must be taken urgently to combat the "disastrous" threat of global warming. The unusual appointment was ...
Cutting Edge Reporting by Scientific American
Presenting its readers with the very latest in scientific discovery and advancement, Scientific American displays this headline: "Potential Male Contraceptive Homes in on Testes." I guess the ear covers weren't working out ...
If Jeffrey Skilling Had Worked for the UN…
...instead of for Enron, says Claudia Rosett, "he’d be looking forward to years of dining out with his pals and collecting his pension in comfort. Instead, found guilty of fraud and conspiracy, he’s facing a 24 year sentence." Read it all here. Addendum, 10/29: In a related story, Cliff Kincaid ...
Help Journalists Be Honest
Victor Davis Hanson explains the difference between a historian and a journalist: ...the verifiability of source material is what distinguishes history from hearsay -- and what distinguishes the genre from journalism... Journalists could change this with one little word: footnotes. A good argument can be made that footnotes in the ...
Rumsfeld Worship: The Here-Today, Gone-Tomorrow Fickleness of the Drive-By Press
Speaking of the New Republic, I noticed that Jonathan Chait's "Rummyache: The SECDEF Cult: A Tour Through the Hilarious Bygone World of Rumsfeld Worship" in the October 23 edition re-writes history a bit by implying that post 9/11 "Rumsfeld worship" reporting was limited to rightie publications. Says Chait: ...it seems ...
Doesn’t It Really Depend on Whether You are Buying or Selling?
If the price of gas goes down, the media treats it as a good thing. When the price of housing goes down, the media treats it as a bad thing. But if a $3 gallon of gas is unaffordable, what is a $250,000 house? ...
Partying with the Global Warming “Deniers”
Al Gore says: 15 percent of people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat. They get together on Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers. Gore apparently doesn't realize how big our parties are.We also ...
Patti Davis, Limbaugh, Fox and Newsweek: Even Presidents’ Kids Need Editors
Why does Newsweek insist on embarrassing itself with yet another lame essay on stem cells by Patti Davis? (You'd think the one I skewered here would have been enough for any self-respecting publication.) Forget about stem cells, Michael J. Fox and Rush Limbaugh for a second, and just look at ...
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