It strikes me that the news media is chattering its teeth off about the Dick Cheney "when did we know it" story in part because stories like this are easier for them to gab about than complicated issues that actually ...
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Maryland has ordered a new sentencing hearing for a "man" who slit an eight-year-old's throat, killing her. Apparently, the evil killer, in the words of the Washington Post, "was not questioned rigorously enough before he was permitted to waive his ...
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Star Parker says: If [Rev. Joseph Lowery] thought about it, and wanted to be honest about it, he might appreciate that because he and his colleagues couldn't get off the soapbox after the work was done in 1965, just as ...
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Mark Finkelstein, writing for Newsbusters, makes well-deserved fun of the ridiculous UK Independent story "Starving Polar Bears Shame Bush to Act," dated February 12. The article begins: Starving polar bears are presenting an unprecedented challenge to George Bush's refusal to ...
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...and still some in the press think Dick Cheney is supposed to be talking to them every second. 24 hours, more or less, just doesn't make much of a difference ...
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The Wall Street Journal says we have reason for a little bit of hope: It's amazing what a little courage from the bench can do to clean up the justice system. Now that word is out that most silicosis lawsuits ...
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R. Emmett Tyrrell says the cartoon clash ultimately is the fault of old men: The Islamicist agitators have two sources of power: the lone terrorist willing to blow himself up and the mob of young men willing to riot. It ...
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Via Ann Althouse, I happened on a New York Times story by Jim Rutenberg that begins: With his decisive re-election victory behind him, Michael R. Bloomberg has been acting more like the man he once was before he entered politics: ...
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The Washington Post has released a report in which its own staff discusses the things they like and do not like about working at the Washington Post. As it is a "diversity report," it emphasizes race and gender, but as ...
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Advice from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Protracted relaxation, besides eating up time, interferes with the momentum of a life of work. Not that I had not already learned this advice from life experience, but it is rather depressing to see ...
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