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 ... READ MORE
...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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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" ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
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 ... READ MORE
As you may recall from this blog post, I took Peter Beinart of The New Republic to task for usingmisleading budget numbers from this report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). I emailed Beinart about this and, ... READ MORE
The animal liberation movement takes a giant step toward farce: ...the Animal Liberation Front... told Circus Royal director Oliver Skreinig they planned to steal [the Circus's] Siberian tiger and hand him to a zoo.But when they broke into the circus ... READ MORE
Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research has delivered a coalition letter signed by representatives of nearly 70 policy organizations to Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) urging him to protect private property ... READ MORE
