Brent Bozell: Press Corps Enables Secrecy

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Brent Bozell has written another doozy of a column. This one compares Time's and Newsweek's coverage of the Dick Cheney shooting with its coverage of another shooting by a White House official -- one that was a great deal more ...
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We Are a Hotbed of Raving Trotskyist Revolutionaries (er, No, Cato Is)

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Salon magazine says The National Center "makes the Cato Institute look like a hotbed of raving Trotskyist revolutionaries." Gee, and we didn't do anything nice for Salon... Such a comment will be fun to use in our promotional literature, which ...
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Cheney Burped Today; Was Press Given the Full Story?

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Howard Kurtz says: Nothing makes journalists madder than the feeling that they're not getting the full story... I'm sure Kurtz's formulation has great appeal for those (journalists all) who believe the journalists-as-truth-tellers mythology, but I doubt the irritation Kurtz identifies ...
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Katrina Aftermath: Recriminations, Rancor and Racial Divisions Don’t Help Us Learn from Our Mistakes

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Annelie O'Neal Roche, who sent dispatches to this blog while working in New Orleans with her National Guard unit during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (see here, here, here and here), has some thoughts about the Katrina "blame game" ...
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Houston’s Clear Thinkers Has a Question for Bill O’Reilly

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Houston's Clear Thinkers is waiting for a word of explanation from the Fox New Channel's Bill O'Reilly about why oil company CEOs are "allowing" a drop in oil prices. O'Reilly, of course, told the world that the post-Katrina gas price ...
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Watching Others Work

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Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center is not enthuasiastic about labor unions. Says Alan: Unions breed corruption and incompetence. They increase costs. They ignore their own membership. They engage in nepotism. They are advocates of the most retrograde liberal ...
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Double Standard for Rush Limbaugh

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This silliness from Bryant Gumbel about the winter Olympics being too white is far more offensive than Rush Limbaugh saying the news media wished black quarterback Donovan McNabb well. Compare the reaction to Bryant Gumbel's comments with these very hostile ...
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Oh, Shut Up

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Now the news media is criticizing Dick Cheney's neckwear, while Media Matters complains that Cheney took responsibility for the hunting accident when witnesses reportedly say it wasn't solely Cheney's fault ...
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Kyoto: Cheaters Never Win

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Vodkapundit has a nice discussion going about Dana Gattuso's commemoration of the Kyoto global warming treaty's first and altogether unsuccessful first anniversary. Stephen notes that Europe "rigged" the Kyoto game, but is losing anyway. He's quite right ...
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Fickle Fickle

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Mark Tapscott is featuring a link to a radio commercial decrying government I.D. cards and the government's infringement upon people's privacy rights. Ironically, if you follow the link on Mark's site, and listen to the commercial, as I did, it ...
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