Year: 2004

La Shawn Barber on Blogs, Rathergate and the Future of Reporting

La Shawn Barber has just had her first piece published on National Review Online. It is a great piece and fills a void in reporting. Called "The Blogosphere's Smaller Stars," it chronicles the contributions of lesser-known bloggers in reporting the ...
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In the Red Zone: Iraq As You’ve Never Read About It Before

Jeff Harrell has just published an interview that made me want to do something I have never wanted to do before: Go to Iraq (although I would not like to risk my life quite as often as did Steven Vincent, ...
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Christian Bashing in Time for Christmas

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I saw a bizarre bumpersticker on a car today. It read: "How Dare You Presume I'm Christian?" My first thought: Some people just can't handle compliments. My second: How egotistical do you have to be to assume that the people ...
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Trent Lott and Don Rumsfeld: Calling the Kettle Black

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Scrappleface has a fun news parody up about the U.S. Senators who believe themselves to be more capable than Secretary Rumsfeld. (Hat tip: David Limbaugh.) Speaking of Senators who like seeing their name in the newspaper are criticizing Rumsfeld, I ...
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Everything I Know Is Wrong: Changing Minds

Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong tends to have fresh perspectives on the issues he discusses. It is one of the reasons I like to visit his blog. Sean's take on the discussion between Professor Bainbridge and myself on ...
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Dying in a Firey Crash Placed a Distant Third

Says L.A. Times headline: "Rehnquist Receives Support Over Cancer." Nice to know there is something worse than a conservative jurist to the L.A. Times ...
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Commonwealth Conservative: New Look, New Neighbor

The Commonwealth Conservative, one of the commonwealth of Virginia's ultimate blogs, has a fantastic new design. It also is welcoming a new Virginia blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis, to the fold. P.S. Ever notice that Virginians love to call their state ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer Feature Pending

I had a call from the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. They are doing a feature story on a lady, Ms. Florence Duckett, who was inspired by Joe Roche's Keep the Faith: A Letter from Iraq after a photocopy of it was ...
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Bastogne Remembers Battle of the Bulge

Speaking of the Philadelphia Inquirer, there was a nice AP story in it Sunday about the people of Bastogne, Belgium, and their continuing friendship with the United States. The story begins: To find the city hall in Bastogne, walk past ...
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Mike Rosen: Dissing Uppity Blacks

Columnist and KOA Radio Denver talk host Mike Rosen addresses Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's comments about Clarence Thomas in the December 17 Rocky Mountain News: ...if Clarence Thomas were an African-American, liberal Supreme Court justice, you can be sure ...
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