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The Media Stands up for Fox News

Posted on October 22, 2009
Did you know today the Treasury Department made the pay czar Ken Feinberg available for interviews to the White House news organizations - all of them except Fox. The networks, though, refused. Charles Krauthammer discusses it here. Good for them - they did the right thing...

Reminder: Roman Polanski Raped a Child

Posted on October 02, 2009
This articleis the best I've read so far about the shameful Polanski rape and run. Honestly, there can be no "mitigating factors" to excuse Polanski's behavior. He should go to jail for a very long time.

Let's Hope Letterman is Not Our Moral Compass

Posted on October 02, 2009
David Letterman revealedon his show last night that he has has extramarital affairs with members of his staff. He admitted this in lieu of being extorted by a CBS employee who had pictures of Letterman's indiscretions. The employee has been arrested in NYC for extortion...

ACORN Hilarity by John Stewart

Posted on September 17, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Audacity of Hoswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealthcare ProtestsACORN should be disbanded. Both houses of Congress have voted to defund the organization. The President should sign this bill, and sever his ties with it.

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A Different Viewpoint

Posted on August 27, 2009
I enjoyed these two opposite-view pieces, here and here, on Senator Kennedy's replacement. Massachusetts law requires that the state wait and hold a special election to elect a replacing Senator, rather than have the state governor appoint a replacement...

More on Laws

Posted on August 27, 2009
Daniel Henninger has this piece in today's Opinion Journal about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special prosecutor to investigate CIA agents. Mr. Holder cited the Justice Department's Office of Legal Responsibility as one of the reasons he felt compelled to start the hunt that will inevitably lead to indictments of CIA agents acting within CIA guidelines...

Charles Krauthammer - No Inheritance in Senate

Posted on December 22, 2008
Charles Krauthammer has a problem with appointing Caroline Kennedy to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Caroline Kennedy. She seems a fine person. She certainly has led the life of a worthy socialite helping all the right causes...

Bleeding Hearts, Tight Wallets

Posted on December 22, 2008
Nicholas Kristof has an op-ed today noting that his research has found that "liberals are personally stingy." Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates...

One More (Mormon) Thing

Posted on December 15, 2008
So, not to belabor the previous discussions, but there is one more aspect to the current campaign against the Mormon church: it isn't the first. Mormon history is replete with periods of intolerance, forced migration and even violence. Early members of the church were physically, often violently, forced from their homes and settlements in Missouri and Illinois...

Well Said, Mr. Hanson

Posted on December 15, 2008
Victor Davis Hanson has some insight this morning on why our present generation fails in both ethics and common decency: When one reviews the released tapes from a thuggish Gov. Blagojevich, or remembers what Richard Fuld was doing at Lehman Brothers, recalls the base Wall Street criminality of a Bernard Madoff, or hears the latest December 7th sermon of ignorance and hate from Rev...

The Mormon Church, Again

Posted on December 08, 2008
I've been sitting on thisall day, tired of talking about it, but still bothered by it. The author, Rick Jacobs, felt a need to respond to earlier articles standing up for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, specifically the piece by Jonah Goldberg, and their right to participate in politics...

Scavenger

Posted on December 03, 2008
Craig Childs, in thisopinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, reflects on life as a scavenger -- always looking out for garbage that may be profitable. He wonders whether the economy will lead more people to adopt his hunter/gatherer habits. He starts his piece with a note about a couple in Colorado who opened their fields to gleaners...

Planned Parenthood Uncovered

Posted on December 03, 2008
Lila Rose, a UCLA student reporter, posed as a 13-year-old girl in a multi-state investigation of the abortion industry. Rose described her project, the Mona Lisa project, as demonstrating the routine lawlessness of abortion providers at Planned Parenthood ...

Mr. Goldberg Stands Firm for the Mormons

Posted on December 03, 2008
Jonah Goldberg maintains his position that Mormons are being wrongly blamed for the passing of Proposition 8 in California defining marriage in the California Constitution as between a man and a woman. The rage at Mormons, as suggested in my column or as NR editorialized at length here, is unjustifiable save as part of a larger and very cynical political strategy...

An Ugly Attack on Mormons

Posted on December 02, 2008
Jonah Goldberg stands up for the Mormons in this editorial today. He points out the radical irony necessary to run such a smear campaign. And the commercial he refers to in the beginning of his article was deplorable. The point is, the Mormons are just the scapegoats in this case...

Charter School Success

Posted on December 01, 2008
This is an awesome example of the charter school system transforming an underperforming, unsafe school in the middle of Watts into a successful school environment. The teachers are committed:Math teacher Carlos Perez believes he has a special understanding of his students...

Religion, Again

Posted on December 01, 2008
This article by Rod Dreher refutes Jeffrey Hart's argument that "To win elections, Republicans will need to distance themselves from 'socail conservatism' and the religious right." Mr. Dreher responds that religion is not, as Mr. Hart argues, "toxic to moderate, independent, suburban, young, and more inclusively, educated voters," and that religion in fact had nothing to do with the Republican

Continued Attacks on Religion

Posted on November 30, 2008
Why is religion still the arch-nemesis of intellectualism? The two are not zero-sum. But I realize the debate is as old as religion itself, and not likely to offer much insight. Case in point is this article about the morphing of the abortion debate to exclude a religious aspect and instead focus on just the plain old sanctity of life...

Finally . . .

Posted on November 29, 2008
I am updated. At least my template is.

Unnecessary Excess Part II

Posted on November 28, 2008
A reader (??? - really - there's still a reader to this blog??) emailed me about my earlier post and asked "Well?" Well, I haven't seen any articles (mostly because I don't read many articles anymore - I just listen to the news in the background of ever-increasingly-loud children) but I have heard a little about the upcoming inaugural season of Pres-Elect Obama...